If I had a nickel for each time I heard from someone about my lack of posting on the blog site I would never have to work again! Damn!
My PC crashed and boy has it has been ugly.
My whole life was in that computer. My address book alone was a wealth of info. Not only email addresses but the home address, all the phone numbers and birthdays associated with that person. I am so lost without it. So with no email I had no personal folders which hold, all passcodes to get into all things I use, no saved data and links that I use all the time, etc. Then you add my work life which is ALL in the computer from the most minor things like invoice and fax forms to all business data that is necessary to run our daily life. And biggest of all, work email which is different from personal email in that it is web based.
Then just because that isn't enough there are 5 yrs of photo's that I no longer have.
Not a good few weeks.
It happened on what started out as a good Monday morning. I was bouncing between excel, work email and the internet. All of a sudden when I was on the net (to read the Washington Post) it started acting weird. Then I got a pop up that said that I may have a virus and to clean it hit OK. Well I was at least smart enough to know that hitting OK was the WRONG thing to do and that in itself was the virus. You can try to close it by hitting the X but it won't go away. I can not get to any program now because it keeps popping it's ugly head onto my screen. My virus ware runs a scan every morning and it did that day too so I was confused. I run anti-spy ware, virus software, and ad adware (4 programs to be exact) every week so why the hell did all this fail me? So after I calmed down I decided it was way too early to start drinking no matter how badly I wanted to. So I called Geeks on Call instead.
For those of you who have never used Geeks on Call they can be helpful but weird. I am not a geek by any means. Surprise I am not a technical person. While people bug the shit out of me and I say I am misanthropic I still am more of a people person with social skills vs. a geek with no social skills but in possession of a technological mind. Or at least I like to think so.
They arrived that afternoon and the Geek spent 5 1/2 hours running programs in safe mode to try to clean this sucker. It was painful to watch but more painful to make conversation and ask questions. I am a control freak. I want to know what the hell is going on. I understood everything he was doing for the most part but when I didn't I would ask. He would answer in something that sounded like jibberish. I finally asked him to dumb it down for me, the simple non technicial woman. He tilt his head like the RCA dog and stared at me for a moment as though he didn't understand my request but was trying to compute it in his mind. He blinked a few times and then with his brows furrowed he tried to explain it to me without jargon. I thought the poor geek's head would explode. He was so obviously uncomfortable with using words that we mere mortals can understand.....it was painful to watch. I almost laughed but I didn't want to make him feel badly, I mean I am the idiot. But sometimes people with all these "smarts" crack me up because the simpliest of things prove so difficult for them. But hey at least he was nice and polite and didn't give me poor service or attitude. I appreciated that!
At 8:30p.m. he finally said he had to take my processor. I about cried. So fast forward a few weeks later and he still has it. We are now getting a new hard drive. (insert heavy sigh here) I don't even know how to begin starting over again. And to answer all the questions I hear you all asking me is ..... NO I don't often back up. In fact the last time was in late 2005 or early 2006...I know, I know. My own fault.....like I haven't said that myself.
So here I sit on a laptop that is giving me grief. It's very very old. It doesn't have anything I need on it but I am now able to get to the internet and bitch and moan on my blog and send emails from an outdated version of outlook. YIPEE. I have run all the scans necessary but who the hell knows I mean I did that before and the virus got me anyway.
The geek called to tell me that if indeed misery loves company then I would be happy to know that I am not the only one with these 2 virus's found on my computer. No, that didn't make me feel better. I want to know if I got it from a site I might have been on or where I got it. But no one seems to know. Lovely huh?
So I am back to work per se, back to bitchin' on my blog and back to reading the paper via internet and surfing shallow sites like Perezhilton.com and hoping they don't give me anything more than tracking cookes which I can easily delete.
So I will end with this humorous video. It appears to be real. A friend sent it to me. The sad thing is there are a million dumb ole redneck goobers like this and sadly they breed. (and vote)
Here's to a good Friday giggle ladies.....I know you all wish you could date him!!!!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/839300/
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