It’s bad enough that I don’t post as often as I should. Now, I have a really good reason why I “can’t” and I’m none too happy about it.
I can’t say I haven’t been warned. My computer, which is almost 2-1/2 years old, has been giving me those dreaded “blue screen of death” warnings for months. I’ve shared the news with the computer-savvy members of my family, but their time is short and looking at my computer isn’t high on anyone’s priority list…except mine, of course.
Well, during the night, it crashed. For good. It powers up, but nothing’s there. All I can say is that I hope I haven’t lost anything important, like all those photos of family that we’ve been scanning that date from the late 1800s to the present and the four years of genealogy research that I’ve been doing.
So…I’ll just have to wait and see. I won’t know anything until someone who knows what they’re doing can look at it. Meanwhile, I’ll borrow a computer here and there, whenever possible.
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Today’s world news isn’t any better. The headline that reads that North Korea is threatening to “…wipe out the aggressors [the U.S.] on the globe once and for all…” just does not leave me feeling very good.
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We are having a little reprieve in the weather today: so far, the heat index has not climbed above 100 degrees. We had a terrific lightning storm last night with a little rain. We need more rain and less lightning.
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I’m still waiting on the cabinet guy to find the time (I’m on his cancellation list) to come by and finish up the kitchen. I’ve been waiting to post the “before and after” photos once he finishes. Those may have to wait, however, since the “before” photos are on my dead computer.
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I haven’t baked a cake in years and years. I guess the last one I ever made was for one of Ryan’s birthdays, but I can’t remember which one. I’ve had a hankering to bake one for the past couple of weeks…finally did last night. I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I guess my tastes have changed. Cake, anyone?
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Tonight is date night. We still haven’t decided where to go or what to do yet. There’s nothing like a spur-of-the-moment decision.
5 responses so far ↓
Sara // June 24, 2009 at 7:14 pm |
Gosh, life gets this way sometimes doesn’t it. I do hope you can recover those important files from your computer….
Maybe a little ice cream will make the cake taste better?
Sara
jill // June 25, 2009 at 12:53 pm |
Just to make you feel even worse (what are friends for?)…the news keeps saying the N. K. rockets can only go something like 500 miles, and Hawaii is 550 miles or something like that. I kept thinking: so why bother shooting the thing if you know it will never reach Hawaii anyway?
Then I figured it out: Not horizonally. Vertically…or more specifically, the missle only has to go about 250 miles to achieve orbit. No one will want to shoot down a missle that is just going into orbit, right? Might just be for satellite communication purposes. On the other hand, with a nuclear weapon aboard that size of a softball…detonated when orbit is above America, well, the Electromagnetic pulse would take out America from San Diego to Maine without killing a soul or destroying a single landmark.
I’m fighting the urge to go to Costco and buy cases of food, water and batteries.
In other news, did you notice that BHO referred to the Iranian religious leaders as THE Supreme Leaders, instead of YOUR supreme leaders? Good grief! Whose side is he on???
jill // June 25, 2009 at 12:55 pm |
PS love your new header! But also loved the shells a lot…
Sara // June 25, 2009 at 2:17 pm |
Hi Vicki.
Yes, I do recommend The Unbearable Lightness of Scones…it’s a “light reading” book but it kept my interest and I enjoyed it to the end. Check it out at the library…probably not worth paying for unless you don’t mind giving away books after you read them. Do you know Alexander McCall Smith, the author of many different novels, but probably most famous for the Botswana woman detective series (which is being televised on HBO now and I saw the first one when we had free HBO, but we no longer have it – darn!).
Danielle Says Hello // June 26, 2009 at 8:45 am |
This is why I bought that external hard drive a few months ago…it is horrifying to think about all those items being lost ~ I feel that with a good computer techie they will be able to retrieve all that from your hard drive ~ mine did ~ then I went out and bought that external hard drive.