Ahh, the modern world...

It is good to be back again. Our computer was running kinda slow lately and doing a couple of odd things. Nothing that would indicate imminent meltdown, mind you. So we decided to upgrade our system to Leopard OS X and in the process froze the computer. At one point a screen came up saying that there was a "fatal hardware error". That doesn't sound good. What's worse, when I called Apple to talk with tech assistance, the guy on the other end of the line said, "that is so funny. I have never had it say THAT before." Oh yeah, it was hilarious... After we had tried a couple of things he told me that our hard drive was dead and would need to be replaced. But he thought that we could get some things off the computer if we hooked it up to a firewire cable. Now, this is after we had tried a couple of "regular" ways of getting on the computer. The apple guy left me with the computer stuck on a funky screen that had an icon that floated around. On the way to Cedar Falls to drop off the computer to get repaired, the computer screen went black (I obviously had to unplug it from the wall) and turned off. This was the kiss of death.
The guys at the repair shop wrote on the ticket "attempt to recover data from hard drive". He asked me if there was anything I really needed off the computer. All I could do was smile. I mean, really, what do you think?? Nope, absolutely nothing on there that I need. I mean its just a computer, who really keeps things on it, right??? :)
When I called today to see how things were they told me that nothing could be saved, but they had replaced the hard drive for me and it turned out to not be as bad as I was thinking $$. So now I am starting from scratch with email, documents, everything. The worst part was that Bill lost all of his football stuff off the computer. We did find a lot of things on his flash drive, so hopefully that will turn out to be not so bad.
Well, anyhow. It is all over now, and hopefully things will settle down. :) (Wishful thinking)