My Laptop is out of Commision

So Saturday I am on my laptop and it's plugged in and all of a sudden it goes into Hibernate mode.  Turns out the battery died.  But I was plugged in.  I double checked the connections and yes they were all plugged in.  I tried another plug.  Nothing.

I assume (i.e. hope) that the power brick is bad.  I look up online how much it is from HP. $79.99.  I can't get a universal cause my laptop needs 120W where most universals are only 90W.

So I resign to ordering it off HP.com.

Then Larry asks me if I checked eBay.  No!  Sure enough I can get them off eBay for $32.  Larry places the order for me since I don't have money in my paypal account.  Now I just pray that this will fix my problem.

I think it will there is a little green light on the brick usually when it's plugged in and it's not on anymore.

Of course today is MLK day and no postal runs today.  So tack on another day of waiting. :(

I'll keep you updated when it comes in.

By the way I had to get my old clunky desktop up-to-date that my kids use.   Talk about a mess.  242 spyware items found.  Pop-ups flying open all the time.  After running a scan, cleaning everything off and updating my open source software I was back on track. 

That's the beauty of open source software and GMail is that I can basically get set up on another computer pretty easily.