just checking in
There's still some unpacking to be done, but the last box should be out of here before too much longer - if I can get another bookcase/DVD shelf, or two.... :p
The re-install of my computer went reasonably well, aside from having to get Microsoft to let me re-install Word; it wanted me to re-register, only to inform me that the product was already registered and to contact customer support...there ought to be a protocol in place for such things, but at least they were prompt in responding to my query, and all is well on that front.
But Outlook Express has proven to be the bane of my existence. All my old e-mail files are gone, and Verizon doesn't back them up the way Gmail does. I wouldn't mind so much if not that there were a number of communications from writer friends that I would have liked to have saved. :(
My computer files are all fine though; those were backed up on the other drive, so it's simply been a matter of sorting through what is needed on the main drive, and occasionally blundering through the wrong files in search of the one that I want/need.
We purchased a few houseplants last weekend, now that we have actual sunshine instead of living in what might as well have been a cave - nothing remotely like Aglarond. Even Moria might have been an improvement. :p But now the sunshine reaches most parts of the condo at one time of day or another, so we have added a peperomia, a Devil's Ivy (aka Pothos), a Burros's-Tail, and what one of the tags labeled a clean air machine, a Spider Plant - a relatively small one, yet with five or six *babies* ready for potting.
Now for the balcony...I have my eye on a beautiful hibiscus (Rose of Sharon) topiary to be the foundation for a fragrant container garden similar to this. Maybe this coming weekend.... :)
The re-install of my computer went reasonably well, aside from having to get Microsoft to let me re-install Word; it wanted me to re-register, only to inform me that the product was already registered and to contact customer support...there ought to be a protocol in place for such things, but at least they were prompt in responding to my query, and all is well on that front.
But Outlook Express has proven to be the bane of my existence. All my old e-mail files are gone, and Verizon doesn't back them up the way Gmail does. I wouldn't mind so much if not that there were a number of communications from writer friends that I would have liked to have saved. :(
My computer files are all fine though; those were backed up on the other drive, so it's simply been a matter of sorting through what is needed on the main drive, and occasionally blundering through the wrong files in search of the one that I want/need.
We purchased a few houseplants last weekend, now that we have actual sunshine instead of living in what might as well have been a cave - nothing remotely like Aglarond. Even Moria might have been an improvement. :p But now the sunshine reaches most parts of the condo at one time of day or another, so we have added a peperomia, a Devil's Ivy (aka Pothos), a Burros's-Tail, and what one of the tags labeled a clean air machine, a Spider Plant - a relatively small one, yet with five or six *babies* ready for potting.
Now for the balcony...I have my eye on a beautiful hibiscus (Rose of Sharon) topiary to be the foundation for a fragrant container garden similar to this. Maybe this coming weekend.... :)