Laptop woes

My laptop spontaneously died last night. I was watching a Youtube video, tried to move it back a few minutes, and my whole laptop crashed. So I figured it was finally time to format my external hard drive and back everything up again. I forgot exactly how long it takes to format it, so I stayed up late last night then had to leave it running all night anyway. And now I'm remembering how long it takes to copy all the files over. Which I have to do without a mouse, because my external hard drive needs two USB slots, and I only have the two. Sigh.

A part of me would just like to replace the laptop, but a) that's expensive, and b) I may have convinced myself it's old and tired when actually I've just let it get dusty. And maybe I just want some up-to-date specs so I can play more PC games on it. I mean, it does struggle sometimes just to load webpages, but sometimes it runs completely fine, so I can't be sure it's not just Windows downloading updates and slowing everything down itself. I've tried to turn off Windows updates, but sometimes that doesn't seem to make much difference.

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Once I'm done I'm going to try to finish Assassin's Creed Syndicate today, because I actually care about the story and Fallout's out tomorrow, and once I start on that there probably won't be much else on my Playstation. Unfortunately, Assassin's Creed isn't a great game to try to rush through. Mostly because the controls are slightly wonky, and - I can't explain without going into great detail, but suffice to say I swore a lot at the TV yesterday, to the point that my dad made comments.

Also - customs. I used to order quite a lot of stuff from America, and customs was a thing and certainly a pain, but I don't remember it happening EVERY SINGLE TIME I ORDERED SOMETHING. Twice. Twice I have imported something in the last couple of months, and twice I have been hit with a customs fee. I always thought it meant you'd gotten unlucky if you got a customs charge, but no, apparently it just means you ordered something.

I did catch up with last week's Coronation Street this morning though - unfortunately I always fall behind these days, because I'm at kickboxing during the Wednesday episode and my parents don't wait to watch it with me.

Some things:

1. David in his unbuttoned shirt, holla!



2. The way David looked at Callum's mum. "There's room in that manhole, Marion. There's room in that manhole."



3. Oh Kylie, shut the hell up.



4. Why on earth is Mary bothering going to Butterthorn Hall when if ghosts exist, several houses on that street are haunted as fuck.



5. I know I keep bringing it up and am kind of living in fantasy land, but honestly this year would have been the perfect year for Corrie to finally do that Halloween ghosts episode I'm always hoping for. Because Callum would absolutely be haunting the Platts - and then Richard Hillman could turn up, like "hello, young man".