I have a new laptop on the way and I’m sure my current laptop knows this. So far it has blue-screened, blocked Google Chrome, crashed Word, and refused to let Pandora work. I’m kind of glad I won’t be on the computer much tomorrow because I don’t want to deal with this machine. It isn’t ending our relationship on a good note.
Seriously, I want my music back. I never noticed how my mind shuts down and stumbles without music. I’ve been using it as background noise since Middle School, so I need it to focus. Unless the issue is the internet.
Is there anything like Pandora that might work better?
Legends of Windemere 
I am torn between laughter and compassion. Sorry, can’t help with the Pandora part. Hope it works for you!
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Yeah. Pandora simply won’t work and it’s driving me nuts. Nothing to drown out the noise of people around here.
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Again, torn between compassion and laughter! I’ll pray for a miracle, worth a try!
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Thanks.
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Spotify, Grooveshark, a YouTube playlist. I’m often in my Amazon Cloud for writing music. Hopefully your comp will start working again soon.
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I used to use YouTube, but I liked the catch-all style of Pandora. I could go by band and genre instead of a specific song. I’ll try take a look at the other two. I’m hoping Pandora works again when my new laptop shows up Friday.
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Spotify. And if you are on a laptop it is free. I use Spotify on all my devices constantly.
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I just tried Spotify and it’s not playing nice. I think it’s my laptop.
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Then go old school and turn on the radio
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Ick. The stations around here are all pop. Can’t find a rock station that doesn’t cut out when a bird flies over the house.
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CD’s?
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Possibly. I’m at the point in the day where my son comes home, so any work I was going to do is delayed until tonight. I just lost the entire day to battling this dying laptop. It’s going to be lucky I don’t take a chainsaw to it once the new one arrives.
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Hope your new one gets there soon. What did you end up getting?
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I’m getting a Dell Inspiron Notebook. It’s supposed to arrive on Friday. The new problem is that I can’t access my blog comments now. I have to go in through the dashboard, so comments from other blogs won’t get seen.
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So Ionia and I can talk about you and you won’t know????
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I can see the comments, but I can’t always respond. I think I fixed that problem. The Pandora issue is continuing.
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Well we better be careful then. Lol. Have a good day off tomorrow.
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I’ll do my best with tomorrow.
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Me too! I hate when it is too quiet.
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It’s like something is missing.
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It is. I think about that a lot.
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Me too.
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us we?
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Exactly.
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Do you have nothing else you can play Pandora on? I can get it on my Kindle, my Roku, and my Blu Ray player.
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Do you have nothing else you can play Pandora on? I can get it on my Kindle, my Roku, and my Blu Ray player.
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Won’t work on my Kindle. Seems the issue is a combination of the Adblocker and my laptop having trouble staying alive.
I’m trying to figure out what to use as a web browser on the new machine when it arrives. Not a fan of working without an Adblocker, but I might have to.
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You have a jealous laptop. My computers are always on their best behavior when the replacement is on the way. “Honest, I’ll be good from now on.” 🙂
When you find something better, please share…
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I have a Dell Inspiron showing up Friday afternoon. My royalty money came in handy and I could even afford to get Microsoft Office on the new machine. That’s really all I need. 😀
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Hope your new one arrives super speedily.
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Friday afternoon, so I’ll get everything set up on Saturday.
Comically, Pandora now works on this thing and I have no idea why.
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I would offer to help but I have no idea what Pandora is! Hope you enjoy your new laptop. 🙂
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Pandora is an on-line music program where you can make your own station. It seems that the ad blocking programs are blocking it. It won’t even register if I make it immune to the blockers, so I have to shut them down. I have ads all over the place now, but that might also be because of my computer tripping over itself.
New laptop arrives tomorrow and I’ll have it up and running on Saturday.
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That’s great that you can purchase a new laptop with your royalties. Can you write off the new laptop as an expense? I’m always curious how people who work from home do their taxes. Years ago (ok, a lifetime ago, in the early 1980s), I had a small home-based business selling handspun and hand-dyed yarn. (Yes, it was incredibly labor intensive. Suffice to say it didn’t last long.) Anyway, I had an accountant who helped me portion out my small studio apartment and such (and this was before personal computers). Flash forward to 2005. Now I’m thinking of freelance editing on the side of my regular job. Our current accountant explained how tricky business write-offs are now with personal computers and home offices. Ideally, I should be able to demonstrate that my PC is being used solely for work. Given that I’m a heavy-end user, I knew that would never fly. My home office would have to be solely for the purpose of work, no sleeping or knitting or sewing or other activities allowed. Again, that won’t fly because my “office” is also where I sleep.
(Sorry for the long comment. While my curiosity is sincere, I am also procrastinating.) I’m wondering, when does a writer start treating herself like a business? Should I first self publish and see if I get any interest in my work before I set myself up as a business, or should I set myself up as a business first and then publish? I didn’t have great business plans when I started the yarn company. I’d like to do things right this time, if I can figure out what right is 🙂 Would you mind sharing your experience, Charles?
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It will be a business expense, but I’m still learning. 2013 is the first year I’m doing this, so I won’t know anything about the real tax side of things until next year.
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Computers can sense hatred and they know when they are being replaced. My loyal machine of several years decided to melt down and cry when I so much as thought of booting out the old geezer in favor of a younger model. They will crash and burn and take your favorite files with them.
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It was odd because yesterday morning it worked perfectly after a week of everything dying. Nothing it could do about the 50/50 power button though.
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Computers always know when they are being cheated on…close it and back away slowly 🙂
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It’s sitting under my bed now. Unplugged and sleeping.
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Lol good place for it! I gave mine away so it didnt start any mayhem!
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I’m going to bring it to an electronic recycling drive when I find one. Keeping the harddrive though.
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Yes definitely!
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