YAY, INTERNETS!

Man, what a week. We've been without a computer for more than a week now, and it's been very painful. We use it for everything.

First, we've been having lots of issues with it for a while then suddenly we couldn't access anything. We called a guy who made the snap judgement that it was a virus and he'd try and retrieve our data and reinstall Windows. It was promised back to us on Monday. So we went about our other plans.

We rented a car to do some heavy lifting errands as well as head up to Scottsdale for my tattoo retouch and another tat I've been planning for a while. We get a lot done, then when Karen goes to return the rental someone had broken into it. Which is as per usual with our complex, and part of why we aren't currently bothering to own a car. The complex has also started marking all the trees, including the one that shields our apt from the AZ summer sun and houses a hummingbird family, to be cut down. We hope to move, sadly not out of state yet, but out of this complex by the end of this year.

Monday comes, no computer. He keeps putting us off till Thursday when he says he'll come by with it. Plugs it in... nothing. Man is confused, and Karen and I are getting pretty frustrated. So we pay him for the data retrieval, and he waves the service charge, and we decide to look up somebody else regretting canceling the Friday Geeksquad appt in favor of getting it done asap. A co-worker of Karen's mentions that her son-in-law does this kind of thing, and he said he'd take a look at it no charge. It's not a virus, it's the motherboard. We need a new computer.

It all turned out to be a blessing in disguise, albiet an expensive one (especially as we're still trying to recover from the Daphne vet bills) because the refurbished HP we ended up getting is a GREAT deal and super fast! Woo hoo! And while we still need to get our drive and all our data back from the wonderfully sweet guy who helped us find out what the problem really is, we have internets again!



It's been that sort of year. So yes, I'm more or less back sorta kinda! I've been pretty quiet lately so nobody probably noticed, but I thought I'd share anyway.