I'm sitting here holding my breath and hoping that all is okay. I've often told you my husband is the techie; I pretty much don't have a clue about the innards of this box sitting beside me that contains a gazillion hours of my work. Double-aaaack!I'm a user. I admit it. I love to use the computer. I love to write using Microsoft Word. I love, love, love to do anything with Photoshop. I love to do research on the Web. I even love Microsoft Excel.
The personal computer is such a marvelous creation, but when it fails … aaaaack!
I was working on a cute little graphic to use for the blog I had planned for today. The computer locked up a couple times. I rebooted and ran the mini-diagnostics that are within my feeble grasp. Then I optimized. And I prayed.
After the fourth lock-up I had to yell, "Chris! Help!!!" I hate to do that because my husband can't understand how I can be so technically inept. He did a few things – downloaded a new program and deleted a bazillion temporary files and I don't know what else.
[I want to know why the temporary files were not cleaned out by my efforts to clean the disk. But that's a topic for another day.]
So anyway today, rather than a cute little graphic and how-to of my latest project, you are being treated to me going “Aaaaack”, holding my breath and praying that the "Hard Disk Failing" message my husband got was just a joke.
At least I have 99.9% of my work backed up to Carbonite, my online automatic backup service.
I'll let you go now. I'm sure you have better things to do than listen to me go, 'Aaaack!!!'
Hi Eileen,
ReplyDeleteAaaack is right - I'm sorry to hear about your computer problems. Hopefully you'll be blogging later saying it's all set and wasn't that big of a problem after all. BUT... if you do find yourself in a jam, please let me know if you need any assistance using Carbonite to restore the data you've backed up.
Sincerely,
Len Pallazola
Manager, Customer Service Systems
Carbonite, Inc.
Thank you Len! Wow, I'm impressed. I feel like the people in those wireless company commercials that always have their team following them around.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to know you're there if I need you!
So far, so good. I'm getting into the habit of optimizing my disk two or three times a day.