We went out Monday night and I forgot to turn off the pc before I went. Oh BTW we came third in the pub quiz, just short of the prize money. However we did win 2 lots of chocolate.
When we got back, Jen went to plug in her iPod to recharge it and found the pc with the black start up screen showing devices - the one you get before windows starts up. I switched off and back on and it did the same thing - it could not see the hard drive :( I have taken it to a very nice man who said he will do what he can to retrieve the hard disk data but it might be the drive that's gone kaput *sob* All my folk club stuff is on there - mailing list, web site pages, posters, tickets etc. Plus all the fok festival stuff for the programme, website and flyer. If I've lost all that I am in deep doo-doo. Hours of work. Not to mention thousands of photos. Didn't I take a back up? well funnily enough last week I bought a 500 gig plug in drive for that exact purpose. But it's still in it's box *more sobbing*
The good news is that Christmas has come early (YAYYY) and next Tuesday sees the arrival of my new PC. It's an all singing all dancing hi spec gaming machine. 1 Tb hard drive 4 meg Ram, dual core processor, Nvidia graphics. It's Win 7 so will take some getting used to. My old pc's are Win Xp . I've skipped Vista LOL.
However there is the thorny problem of siting the new PC. I had planned and reserved a corner of the lounge for the desk, currently taking up too much space in Jen's tiny bedroom, destined to be the home of the PC I was going to buy for Christmas. However there are 2 things standing in the way of that arrangement. 1 we can't get the desk out of Jen's room - too much stuff on it and around it right now - so major clear out needed there. 2 I have stacked boxes of sorted out stuff into the empty corner of the lounge so that will have to be shifted to make room for the desk LOL so the next few days will be busy. It's a bit like those sliding squares puzzles, you need an empty space before you can start shuffling the bits around. So first step is to create a space! Easier said than done in my house - our new by-word is DE-CLUTTER! But we're not very good at it :( How am I writing this blog? I'm using the crap old slow PC I had virtually abandoned in my bedroom. I've managed to get it connected to the internet and it's working, but a little temperamental.
I love this blog site because it auto saves every 2 minutes so if this pc decides to do one of it's random auto restarts I won't have lost anything!
Today was a sh.t day weatherwise with rain in varying intensities all day, and gusting winds. It wasn't too cold but very depressing. A good duvet day - except my dog beat me too it! She spent most of the day on MY bed curled up in a nest made from MY duvet - spoilt dog? oh yes :) but she is a greyhound and feels the cold and hates getting wet (apart from racing through puddles!)
Now it's Thursday and I need my bed. Someone is warming it up for me :-D
no - not some hunky man (shame!) - just Honey hoping I'm not coming to bed at all tonight!
Night night all xx
PS thanks for comment on last blog Jeanette - I've replied
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