CRASH!

Not a great day in things electronic yesterday. My computer, filled with 4 years worth of pictures, expenses records, Young Women projects, favorite websites, patterns bought online,etc,etc, blah blah blah...everything you would accumulate over 4 years is now gone. The computer decided it had enough and crashed! And of course if would have to happen just an hour and a half before I had to take my wonderful husband off to the airport. Neither Skip or I know all that much about computer stuff but out of the 2 of us- I say he knows more. Soooooooo what to do....

I called HP technical support. And was told by a guy who hardly speaks English(seriously biggest pet peeve!) that my warranty was up and in order for him to troubleshoot I had to purchase and expired warranty package. Whatever. I hung up on him. Rude I know but I wasn't going through the whole Kodak ordeal again.

I called Faye to tell her what happened and her Chris saved the day. Chris was able to walk me through recovering my PC. Unfortunately everything on the computer was lost...not a single picture of my adorable kids to be found. (thank my lucky stars I had made a back up CD of the past 4 years worth of pictures!) Each of my carefully charted monthly expenses tables- gone. But hey- at least Chris was able to save me a couple hundred bucks! You Rock Chris! At least I don't have to take my non computer savvy self and 2 inpatient children over to Best Buy to purchase a new computer tower that does who knows what and then have to figure out what cord goes where. Although I am going to invest on those little memory sticks for all my pictures, important files and of course all the patterns I've bought online!