Powerless...

It's a little scary how dependent we can be nowadays on our computers. My power adaptor "died" this week, which meant that I suddenly found myself without a computer for a day - which meant in turn that I had no way of answering emails about upcoming conferences, no way of continuing to work on LDC manuals, no way of conducting skype meetings with coachees in other nations...  I found myself "powerless" in more ways than one. As my computer is more than three years old, the power adaptor doesn't fall under warranty in Spain, and that meant I had to cough up a whopping 80 euros for a new one! Discovering that the shop was near Malaga bus station, however, gave me an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. I caught the bus into Malaga to buy my power adaptor, and took advantage of the opportunity to make enquiries at the bus station about new bus routes that our LDC delegates might use when they make weekend trips in April and May. So I now have the new-style power adaptor for my laptop, and the new bus timetables that I'll include in the information pages of our staff and delegate handbooks. I'm feeling "empowered" again!