Yay!!  I'm still alive.  I've been staying busy.  Last weekend was a total loss because of that nasty virus that took down my computer.  I've got everything put back together.  I have a nice larger HD.  I didn't want to spend too much money so I only got a 320 GB drive with my old 120 GB as a slave.  I've had that 120 GB for about 4 years and ( Read more... )

Wow.  It was  a very busy weekend for me, but I didn't get to do anything fun.  Saturday was a very busy errand day.  I spent the day doing all sorts of things--getting my oil changed, getting a haircut, buying groceries, paying bills.  I had to go to the laundramat because I had to wash blankets.  I hate going to the laundramat.  It's so boring.  ( Read more... )

For the past few days, my computer has been taking forever to boot up.  When I started it up tonight, it gave me a diagnostic message that my slave drive was bad.  The computer was probably trying to scan that thing at boot up and that's what was taking so long.  I tried to move some files over to the primary drive but it was taking forever so I ( Read more... )

I had a great shopping trip today.  I looked at the Best Buy ad today and the GPS that I bought less than 30 days ago was on sale for $50 less than when I bought it.  Yes, I got to start out the shopping trip by putting extra dollars in my pocket.  I kinda sucked though.  Every year, if you are a Reward Zone member, you can opt to donate the value ( Read more... )

My AIM still doesn't work.  There's something with that latest version that my computer just doesn't seem to like.  I know people have been trying to IM me with that, but no message box appears.  All I get is the audible alert.  I don't know who's IM-ing me and I can't read any messages.  Reinstalling the program didn't seem to work.  I uninstalled ( Read more... )