On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Dave Land wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> >> and Dell is sending a technician to my house with the appropriate
> >> replacement part some time this week
> >
> > Tech came, really nice guy named John, swapped out the hard drive.
>
> It's nice to buy products that come with decent support. Glad to hear
> it, although it's always a wrenching experience to lose a hard drive.
>
> Of course, you had everything backed up :-).
Not as recently as I would have liked.
We got the old drive up and running and managed to transfer all the
critical data from it, or so it seems. There was some corruption that hit
the boot sector, is what it looks like. :P Dan's going to set me up with
something that will just sit there and make backups automatically.
> > I have some of my stuff back up and running, but not Thunderbird yet,
> > which is what I use to check the usual administration address. (Need
> > to
> > get all my mail folders, etc. moved over, and if I don't block out 30
> > minutes for it, it'll take 60, but if I block out the 30 minutes, it'll
> > only take 10. Or so it seems to go.) I'll have that up tomorrow
> > evening or sometime Friday.
>
> I'm painfully familiar with the elasticity of computer time. Are you
> familiar with the concept of yak shaving? Pretty much any computer
> activity degrades into it...
>
> > (Got a date with my hubby tonight -- married 14 years ago today!
>
> Congratulations. Peggy and I just celebrated 19 years.
Wow! Cool! I hope we make it that long. And longer.
> > And I still need to install the camera software and the genealogy
> > software, but that'll wait until the mail stuff is up and running
> > properly. :)
>
> We'll be happy to hear that you're back.
Yeah, I'm back, but I'm having a crappy day. Literally.
Having kids in diapers plus a dog can make life more interesting than
you'd like, especially if there's some sort of weird bug going around that
causes diarrhea but not much else. Oh, plus the ants. I hate ants....
Sam hates ants, too. Leastways, he hates it when they bite....
Julia
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