So now I shall explain why I have been dead and will continue to be dead over the next week.

My family and I are poised on the brink of a trip down to Arkansas to see my dear friend Meggy and her family.

:D

( More about the trip and why I haven't been posting much. )

Well, despite my adamant statements to the contrary in the last post, I have found, to my relief, that I am still alive, along with the data from my laptop.  Yes, my dad succeeded in bringing it partially back to life last night -- it still has a fluctuating heart rate, but it should be on the road to recovery.  Hopefully I'll at least be able to ( Read more... )

So I woke up this morning and started my laptop, like I always do.

But after it had been on only a few seconds, it informed me very pertly that a crucial startup file was missing or corrupted, and that I needed the original settup disk in order to 'attempt' to fix it.

Nothing I did worked.

Nothing my dad, the ' ( Read more... )

The decree has been passed: Cherise has been a bad girl, and shall now be punished for her nefarious deeds.

However, since said Cherise was forthcoming about her crimes, and confessed them without prompting by anyone else, she shall be dealt with mercifully.  Instead of the usually sentence of a week without her laptop, she shall only be forced to ( Read more... )