... well, I'm here, but on the laptop...
Carol arrived Saturday afternoon; we drove up to SR almost immediately, where I launched into a long description of what had gone wrong... Long story short, they think Windows might be broken - and if that's the case, the machine may need a complete reformat... [whimper] Three year's worth of work/files/programmes/customisation gone...
Days worth of work reinstalling/reloading from back-up/recustomising, and that's if i can actually
find everything... I could cry...
And it may not be 'til Tuesday that I find out - although we know they started looking at it around 4pm today: I suddenly got an ICQ message flash up that my ICQ account was being used on another computer, and I have it set to load on bootup on the pc. Keeping fingers very tightly crossed that it's not that severe a problem.
Ken's wondering if when the heat sink fell off the motherboard it might have caused more damage than we knew. Which is possible, I suppose, but probably academic at this stage.
Anyway... Carol's got the broadband working on the laptop, and I've installed ftp and Thunderbird (although at the moment nothing's working: their service status page says BY are having national broadband problems so I hope it's that. It downloaded everything perfectly happily first thing this am... Will see what happens in the morning. My main accounts I can manage: ClaraNET has webmail - but Supanames, and hence all my client accounts, doesn't) and kicked into action the various security padlocks and moats, so at least I have online access. (I've also bought a mini-mouse so we don't have to struggle with the touchpad any more.)
But I
hate this keyboard. It's too small, and I can feel my hands and arms starting to hurt already, and that's without the headache and sore neck. I can probably manage for a few days - no, I'll rephrase that, I have no choice
but to manage - as long as I don't try to work too quickly and take plenty of breaks, but as a long-term alternative it's a no-no. [sigh] A new computer might be on the cards (not that we can afford one right now, but I can't do without it.)
Over and above that it was a great weekend
[GLOMPS Carol] And it was fantastic to see some early
Spooks again - not to mention
Shrek 2!
Here's the four-legged family (taken by Carol, as I'm too frazzled to try installing the software for Kai's digicam on the laptop right now.)
Oh great. The laptop isn't opening the blogger spell-checker. (It doesn't have Flash, either: I can't see
Sublunary. Will have a look at that tomorrow...)
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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