I have no idea what star I was born under, but seems like it must have been hit by a meteor in the last 24 hours. It’s been that unlucky.<\/p>\n
Yesterday afternoon about 2 p.m., the hard drive in my laptop inexplicably died. No funny noises, no warning signs, no blue screens of death… one minute it was working fine, and the next, it insisted that it didn’t have a hard drive at all. At 4:30 (after getting back from getting Gamma’s drivers license) I called Dell — purveyors of the most awesome, idiot-proof warranty in the business — and they agreed to ship me a new HDD asap. It arrived sometime before 10:30 this morning, as it was on my front porch when I returned from running errands.<\/p>\n
I’ve been in the process of rebuilding it for the last four hours. I’ve located most of my software CD’s, though I may have to re-purchase a few things that I’d bought via download. I might have some of it on the backup drive, but unfortunately, one of the CD’s I can’t locate contains the software to run my backup\/restore system.<\/p>\n
I’ve lost a good bit of work, and a whole lot of personal stuff (pictures, family tree back to the 1600’s, etc.), but I’ll survive. I can reconstruct most of it. If nothing else, I’ve cleaned a lot of extraneous junk off my system.<\/p>\n
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If that wasn’t enough, yesterday’s post came up blank, except for the title. No idea what was going on there, but I’ve reconstructed it as best I can remember. It was probably because I wrote it from HWTFM’s old lappy, which has considerable problems of its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have no idea what star I was born under, but seems like it must have been hit by a meteor in the last 24 hours. It’s been that unlucky. Yesterday afternoon about 2 p.m., the hard drive in my … Continue reading