This blog is Real, real reality.
My desktop computer died!!! on Thanksgiving weekend, no less.
A family member who came for the weekend decided to be generous and added some extra memory to the DT. Some hours later, I was in the middle of a game and it hung. Soooo I re-booted and Wow! Up came pop-up city. "Your system is corrupted" (blah, blah, blah).
Needless to say during the next 2 days my visitor hardly left the desk trying to get it up and running. This between travelling to other relatives for dinners was a real head banger! By Monday we gave up the ghost and he set up my Laptop to do the job in place of the tower. Well, that was another pita as the laptop runs Vista and the DT had XP2.
I would have gone out and bought a new tower when this first happened BUT some lovely Microsoft folks had manufacturers pre-loading vista on every damn computer on the market.Vista is a very dirty word in my language and Im sorry to use it repeatedly but thats the "way it is". (bet the guys who designed it are now working in the mail room).
I was not able to get my Outlook Express back so I lost a lot of info from the folders in there and probably a lot of other files I haven't looked for yet. I'm still trying to learn how Vista has screwed things up. And after everyone had gone to their respective homes, we ran into another brick wall, trying to set up "Remote Assistance", so he could work on it from his home base.
When Wednesday arrived.........we finally got a connection! By this time, I had pretty near wore out the MSN button. So when we get our heads clear and the nightmares stopped, we will attempt to go on, after a much needed break. Got my mail re-routed through Thunderbird (God Bless 'em) so didn't have to change identity addy, but it was a toughie getting the file with the list of addies! Still seems like I'm not getting the e-mail I used to get in a day, but them's the breaks I guess.
As for the trip around the world.....I missed the flight to Cambodia so will have to re-book to catch up with the others. In Samoa, Galu finally lost a resident, but who knew Monica? I didn't. They are so busy showing Foa Foa and RussellH that I hadn't had a chance to know who's who on that tribe! Being "outside the geographical area" I can't even get to see past episodes.
So for all this I give Thanks? Sorry.....thats on hold!