We got a nice new computer tonight. I love it. The only bummer is that my old hard drive is fried. Right before the end, back-ups were made of Kate’s pictures from the first year, etc. but we still lost a lot. Like, all of my emails, address book, etc. So, if you are someone who would have been in my email address book, send me an email to myfirstname@thisdomain.com (there’s a link to the right) and I’ll be really glad that you did. Lesson learned: back-up address book regularly. Also, if I owed you an email, remind me.
Search This Classical Life:
categories:
in the middle of:
read in 2016:
Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins
Sloan, Ajax Penumbra 1969
Mandel, Station Eleven
Elliot, Shadow of the Almighty
Shakespeare, As You Like It
Bolz-Weber, Accidental Saintsarchives:
So what’d you get?
We got this one bundled with a flat panel monitor (I have desk space all of the sudden!) and this printer with cheaper prices than the web to begin with and $300 worth of mail-in-rebates. We ran the other desktop into the ground and we’re planning on doing the same with this one.
:drool:
Yeah, I’m with Richard. Quite green, to be honest. Even though this computer is newish, it’s Ukrainian and in our recent reformatting, we lost our Microsoft Office software (all on disk back in Ukraine) as well as everything that was set up just-how-I-liked-it. It almost makes me jsut want to start over with a new computer.
We’re still a one-computer family. One day we’ll be able to keep up with the Joneses. . . I really, really want a laptop that is *mine.*
I’m such a green with envy, greedy little monkey.
But in a nice, sanctified way. *EG*
Everything just worked out in our favor. We got a *REALLY* good deal (I built the same thing at dell spec for spec and even with their $200 off special, it was more than $500 more!) and it’s the summertime so we have more income to spend and if the old one hadn’t broken now, the money would have long been allocated to some other causes by winter. But no new computers for a long, long time.
If you kept your old hard drive—I had good luck with recovering info from my old messed up HD by putting it in the freezer for a while. The problem for me was the bearings giving out, so getting it cold freed it up long enough to read from it.
It’s kind of fun trying to messaround with that stuff. Just need to hook it up as a slave drive for a while.
Of course if the circuitry went bad that won’t work.