The Computer

My laptop had been running a little slow, so I ordered another gig o' ram to top it off at 2 GB.  Turns out, while one ram chip is easy to access on a panel on the bottom of the laptop, the other is placed under the keyboard...I had to Google that one on the touch since the computer was already apart.  So, one thing lead to another and I ended up with the computer looking like this:

 

My screen hinges were a little loose and one of my mouse buttons had gone screwy.  Well it turns out that some of the screen hinge screws are inaccessible (permanently), so that got tightened up best I could and super glued. 

The screwy mouse turned out to be a broken rubber nub under the button so I ordered a new one from Ebay for $24.  One week later I had a new replacement that replaces the the entire lower and mouse (lower left two silver pieces in the picture.  And now:

 

So the computer is up and running good again with the new mouse and its faster.  I also got a 2 TB hard drive to offload all the junk to.