It's a little bit disturbing how much I rely upon technology in my everyday life. And how expensive it can get when items break. First off, my car window decided that it was too hard for it to go up. Unfortunately, it still was ok with going down. Clearly, it was a bad connection in the switch. You wouldn't think that it would be very expensive to replace a switch, but apparently the four window switches in the driver's side armrest come as an entire, inseparable unit. Throw in labor, and all the other crap I did (regular servicing, alignment, muffler replacement, and more) and *poof!* there goes a lot of money. Next, the screen on my two-year old Apple PowerBook decided to die. At least, the bottom two-thirds, which had already been acting up. It's goddamn expensive to get a laptop repaired; repairs through Apple would have been nearly one-third the cost of a new laptop. So I finally tracked down a replacement screen taken from an old machine and bought it. While waiting for it to be delivered (it got here today), the screen decided to come back to life. Fucking screen. Anyway, something else bad (or costly) is bound to happen, since these things always happen in threes (or so they say). Maybe all of my stereo amplifiers will blow up or something. Goddamn technology.