Isn't she pretty?

Good morning from a cold Lansing. We got a couple of inches of snow last night. The roads were very slippery when I went to clean the Salon this morning. No salt trucks out that early. We finished up with work fairly early yesterday and almost went to do some shopping, until we saw all the traffic, so decided to go home and relax.

Played games on the puter, and Craig fixed Chicken cordon bleu for dinner with noodles Alfredo and steamed zucchini with Parmesan cheese Very yummy. Also we finally got the lap top skin Craig ordered Dec. 15th. Can you believe it, 11 days to arrive? Anyway, my new laptop has a kind of herringbone pattern on it with a high gloss shine. It's absolutely beautiful except for one thing. It shows every fricken fingerprint. In no time it looks a mess. So, Craig remembered seeing skins on his Coke rewards site. So we took a look and they offer a code for 1050 points to use for any skin at Skinit.com They have thousands of skins for every type of electronics. Even for vehicles and walls. So I finally settled on one and here it is....

Before.....

and after....

Is that one wild skin? I love it! And what's really neat, is you order the skin for your exact brand and model number. Not a one size fits all.
It came with a cutout for the name badge and......
even fits around the hinge. A real custom fit! And it runs $29.99 on the website, but with Craig's coke reward points, it was free! and free shipping too! So thanks to everyone who sends me their Coke codes. Maybe I'll get a skin for my cell phone too!
And once lazy Craig gets his butt outta bed, and we have our coffee and read the paper, we're going out to find me a laptop bag.

Later!

my laptop kinda died

Here's a trip update! Scroll down for the trip in review.
I'd almost forgot about this part of our last trip.
Usually I get up much earlier than Craig, so I take my laptop along and play games in the morning. But this last trip, my laptop would not work. I'd plug it in, turn on the power, I'd see the keyboard light up and could hear the fan spin up. Then after about 5-10 sec. the fan would power down to low, and then another 5-10 sec. the laptop would shut off, then immediately restart. It would continue this same pattern until I unplugged it. There was never anything on the screen. It wasn't on long enough for windows to load. Does any of my computer savvy readers have any ideas? I'm thinking maybe the power cord with that big box thingy on it might be bad. Maybe it's not getting enough juice to keep running. Does that even sound possible?
I don't have a battery back-up, because the battery died 2 years ago. Probably because I only use it on trips, and it sat all the first winter after I bought it. I didn't know I needed to plug it in regularly to keep the battery charged. And I never replaced it because I always use it in the mo-ho where we have power and I always plug it in.
Anyway, any ideas would be helpful.