Computer Quemado

Yeah, so it's never good to use quemado and computer in the same sentence...

I'll elaborate...

Last Friday I was eating dinner with a couple friends and we were talking about computers and buying them in the states and bringing them to Brazil.  I bought my Dell Studio XPS last spring and it has served me well.  But in the spirit of conversation I mentioned that I was thinking about buying a new one when I come back to the US this fall (you can sell used computers here in Brazil for a great price and essentially get  your new one paid for).

Than evening I got home and hit the power button on my laptop...nada.  Uh-oh, this isn't good...

Within 36 hours I had figured out that the Motherboard was toast.  Worse yet, I was 1 month out of warranty.  So here I am looking at a worthless computer.  I will hopefully soon be able to get my data off the hard drive.

So a new computer definitely wasn't on the "must have" list for this year, but it has now made it's way into the budget.  So the past couple days I've been looking at my options to buy a computer and get it down here.  I don't really like this floundering feeling of not having one.  I am able to get buy bumming around the other missionaries and going to cyber cafes.  I've also written more letters in the past few days that I have since I arrived here in September.  That has been a blessing in this age of instant communication, but doesn't relieve my need to work on a computer.

Please pray for me to have wisdom in deciding what to buy and when to get it and that the Lord would provide the means necessary to finance it.  If you would like to help in this endeavor, please contact me.

Some of you will like to know that I am leaning towards a Mac now.  I've recently been turned on to the amazing functionality that it will provide me in creating multimedia for my ministry on the mission field. I'm looking at new, used, and refurbished, warranty or not, size, and processor...and of course cost.  Lord please give me wisdom to be a wise steward of your resources that you have blessed me with and will bless me with in the future!

Computer-less,
JAE