aw, gee Wiz...

I live in the jungle, honey!

Macs are heavy suckahs, and the international shipping, plus taxes and import duties are totally prohibitive... if I could even FIND some poor soul willing to undertake such a task......... (I brought mine in on Continental Airlines, as luggage, lol)

I think I am one of only a handful of people in the entire country of Belize with a Mac... it's as rare as a Jaguar... wait, I meant the car, there's REAL jaguars here, seriously !!

and there's not exactly electronics stores around here... well, there IS one in the Mennonite village, over the river, (on the hand-cranked ferry), and through the woods, an hour away.

lol, Wiz, they even have paved ROADS there, it's sorta exciting to visit "civilization" when we go to get sacks of animal feed each month.

but they (The Computer Ranch) have only 2 computers in stock (used) for $1,000 bucks each, and they ain't Macs.

*sniffle-sniffy-sniff*

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however...

they DID have a little Toshiba laptop with a broken hard drive on their junk pile, and for the low low price of only $200 US I'm BACK IN BUSINESS, kiddies !!

WHOOOOOPEEEE, and YIPPPEEEEE and YAHOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mi esposo had a spare hard drive, and loaded FireFox onto the Toshiba while I napped, and hooked up my Mac mouse (I can't use the laptop one with any success) AND, my old keyboard, so I'm reasonably comfortable, and happy.

now, if I could only figure out HOW to increase the font size, and import my BillPay passwords and stuff.

my fantasy is to have my iPhoto, my iTunes, and my passwords, journals, bookmarks, IM friends lists, and TONS of saved research documents in AppleWorks and everything else MAGICALLY appear during my sleep tonight, wouldn't THAT be great ??