I now have a laptop bed tray. I used to have a laptop that ran off either battery or AC power. My grandchildren came to visit for the summer, staying six weeks. Every morning it would be the same question; “Nan, can I use your computer?” And my response became automatic; “We’ll see.” Of course, Nan always broke down and let them use the PC. Then the fighting would start. “Nan, she’s been on the computer for over a half hour! When’s it going to be my turn?” Before I could reply, my granddaughter would jump in with, “No, I haven’t. I only got on ten minutes ago!”
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Within minutes I could stop the arguing and monitor the computer times. After bedtime rolled around, I myself would get on and check my email, look at different web sites and read the newspapers from home. In the middle of reading how the slot talks were being stalled in Maryland a pop-up would show up on the screen; “Sign up now to play zwinky!” Angrily, I would have to stop long enough to close the pop up, and then discover the page I was looking at was gone! In addition, my computer started running slower, and there were times I’d be in the middle of composing an email to my friends and the screen would go blank before a message showed up; “invalid config.xml format”! I’d become so infuriated I’d want to throw the computer through the window!
Every morning I would warn the kids NOT to go to any sites where they had to download things, because they were doing things to the hard drive. Of course, both denied it. “Destinee did it.” John would swear, and then Destinee would holler back, “No, John’s the one who keeps downloading games. I tell him not to, but he does it anyway.”
Of course, finally my computer died. My husband tried to restore it to an earlier date, hoping that that would take away the problems that had occured. This worked for a while, but then I learned I was getting viruses on the PC that I couldn’t get rid of them. The virus program I had couldn’t detect them, and the program I downloaded from the internet wanted to charge me to rid the computer of the viruses. It was after the kids left to go home that I decided to make myself a laptop bed tray- my new PC (my husband’s old one) only worked on AC power, so it went into my bedroom and I only worked on it from the comfort of my bed.