Did you all miss me? I've missed you. 
Two weeks ago DD had a report due at school and she was using the laptop to type it out. Well, she dropped it on the floor and it died. 
Long story short I took it in to Staples and had it repaired for $263. It needed a new hard drive and a new disk reader. Luck for us all the tech services are 1/2 off this month. I just picked the computer up last night and it works as good as new!
DD had almost finished typing her report out. We are talking like two more sentences left to go. So it was a quick rush to set up the desktop and get the report re-typed. Then our printer wouldn't print. It was the "Report from He77". 
Nah..I was able to load it on a flash drive and have it printed at Kinko's near our house.
Nothing could be recovered from the hard drive, so I lost budgets and financial goals, a few games, but really nothing else. Trying to get some bills payed online now and catch up on the checking account. We have the Internet at work, but I am not in front of the computer long enough to do much of anything. I was able to check my mail about every other day and look up a few web sites, otherwise no time to do anything else.
Speaking of work, my boss laid off one of the other gals because we're heading into the slower period of the year. Of course, it was only slow for about two days!! I miss her, she was really my assistant. The other news is the boss' wife has stepped in to do the business financials and get the bills caught up. AND I got a $1/hour raise with another planned in the spring!! Well overdue for that, so I am happy.
What else???
Oh yeah.. got rid of all the lice! Yay!
Only to have DD get them back again. Boo!
But, I am thinking we've got them beat again. Five days now with no sign of the buggers. 
Trying to gear up for the holidays. It is so hard because the weather has been unnaturally warm. Like 70F+ most days. And Christmas is when?!?
My Computer is Alive Again
November 19th, 2010 at 12:11 am
November 19th, 2010 at 03:08 am 1290136110
Also, I have carbonite so I am not worried about losing anything, and it is not that expensive.
November 19th, 2010 at 02:21 pm 1290176487
I am in the same boat with the computer. Dh backed up our system, and in the process, lost everything. (don't ask!). I've lost all my spreadsheets too (for this year, anyway). Which is kind of okay - think I will just start anew 1/1. I knew I had a recent Quicken copy, so, phew! Could be worse. But I feel a little lost in the interim.
November 19th, 2010 at 07:01 pm 1290193318
My dinosaur desktop keeps popping up "Hard Error" and telling me I've disconnected a drive - the 2nd hard drive. We think it's a motherboard issue. I find it somewhat funny, but I'm sure I'll panic one of these days. Most things are backed up and it's still very much so the main computer in the house - even though it's the oldest. Reboot and it's good to go.