June from Juliana - black-screen-laptop

This is how much mail was waiting for me when I returned from my trip. 

Here is the one from Juliana. She lives in Texas and it sounded like the heat/weather had depleted her creative juices - so she decided to try French Roundhand. I think that was a perfect way to cope with seasonal issues. Maybe I'll remember to do that for the August exchange. I think this is lovely.

I wrote the add on in Chicago - and I can't find where I said anything about my black-screen-laptop. Bear with me while I get back to linearly written posts....

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There is a little more to say about the day I woke up to a black-screen-laptop....and had to research and jump through hoops and pray to the gods of electronics to spare me the chaos of living without a laptop whilst out of town for another week. I did have my phone - and I did Google to see how complicated it would be to get another laptop. 

While there are a lot of challenging (for me) things about living in Chicago (and not in the burbs - we are a mile from Wrigley Field) I did find out that I could get a new laptop delivered (no delivery fee) by noon the following day. Or, for $8, I could have it by noon on the same same day. That's pretty nifty. I don't think I could make that happen in Des Moines. I know there is that big company that delivers all kinds of things promptly, but, I refuse to do business with them.