Ever have something happen where you just wanted to scream? (You’re right, Howard, I do remember when you…)
Well, I just learned that my laptop computer, gifted to me by my sister Nona Gandelman, is totally dead. It was virtually new but the freaky failure would cost more to fix than to buy a new one (and I never have the cash on hand to make replacement easy).
Alas, The Moderate Voices does not Blog Ads up yet (we will add them later this year) or a so-called beg box, so this isn’t a request for money (for if someone wins the lottery and wants to send me some The Moderate Voice would be more than moderately happy). Just some TEARS for TMV,
This may mean on days when he is on the road there will be no TMV fix for our readers…but we will bargain hunt and get one on the lower end over the next 4 weeks.
But there could be a period when TMV goes dark for a day or so. Oh, woe to the World…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.