Or, "Where the Heck Has The Gang's Momma Gone?"
We've been experiencing some extremely frustrating and time-consuming computer issues for quite a while now, and it all came to a nasty, ugly head on Saturday. After a delightful impromptu lunch with my parents, The Boss started to install the printer that came with Dr. D's loaner equipment for his on-line school. The system crashed. It all went speedily down hill from there.
For the past two days, The Boss has been planted on his b*tt in front of our PC while saving data files, cleaning hard drives, restoring functions, and some such gobbedly gook. He logged more than 5 hours of on-line time (on hold, on the phone, on live chats) with representatives of Dell, Microsoft, Verizon, and so on. He spent HOURS saving pictures and documents on cd's, just trying to mitigate the damage. He still has several hours of restoring and re-loading ahead of him, but the most critical operations are up and running and we're back on-line.
This could not have been a WORSE weekend for the crash to occur, with Shaggy's on-line schooling scheduled to begin tomorrow and Dr. D's scheduled for Tuesday. While they both have laptops to use for school, we need the home PC to allow me to log-in to their systems and record attendance and so on. I also have several parent orientations to work through and can't use their laptops during their school day.
The upside of that is our PC is moving along very quickly now. The downside is that tons of bookmarks, passwords, and other miscellaneous account information is lost. All my forums, all my adoption resources, all my shopping haunts, everything. I'm trying to see the upside of that. At least all my favorite blogs are in my Reader, right?! And maybe the inherent "cleaned up-ed-ness" of it all will inspire more purging and cleaning? My family is already afraid of my annual "it's September, let's start purging!" frenzy. This will NOT endear me to them, I'm sure.
So, if you have sent an email to my personal account (not through my blog here, not through my gmail) in the past 48 hours and it requires timely attention, please resend it. If you sent me a link that you think I needed to see, please resend it. In the meantime, I'll be digging in first thing tomorrow morning to a brand new school year and a brand new way of life for The Gang. Wish us luck - and pray for smooth sailing from here on out . . .
5 comments:
I feel your pain. Prayers are with you.
Good luck with the computers!!!!! I hope it all gets worked out. We had some trouble with our internet and phones last week at the same time we were having plumbing issues. What a pain they are!
:)
Blessings girl - if the boss is looking for some 'future' ideas have him send an e-mail...having endured what he is doing now in the past - I took actions to prevent it for the future (and now is a good time to start!!)
hugs - aus and co.
I hate when something happens to the computer. It is amazing though what you find yourself doing without one. Hope you get it fixed soon. Also,I sent you an e-mail about MOPS. Let me know if you didn't get it. I can resend it.
Our PC crashed over a year ago, now we have a MAc! :) I hope you guys have an awesome school year. I can't wait to hear the testimonies of how the Lord will bless you guys through your obedience with schooling the way the Lord wants you too. We pray every year too asking Him what is it this year He wants us to do.
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