Plagued with computer problems

My day week is being sacrificed to the vengeful computer gods who have smacked me with bad computer mojo.

- new mobile battle station - left out in the snow for 6 days by UPS despite the fact that I called them ahead of time and told them I would be out of town; their records claim I signed for it.  Very, very pissed off about this.
- desktop media computer - broken power supply (I think)
- laptop for everyday use - dying battery that gives me 15 minutes before it shuts down
- web access - paying for 5M/s, getting 800kb/s with dropped packets.
- old laptop - dead battery, dead sound card
- Kindle - keeps freezing up when I try to access the news over the net.

Lesson #3592 - go back to pen and paper.  Your life will be far simpler.