Computer woes ;-)

Ah, yes. One of the quandaries of modern life, our dependence on our personal computers. Mine has come to pass this week with my beloved trusty Dell 530S on the fritz. Not to worry; Dell is going to come galloping to the rescue with a spiffy new one sometime mid month, and in the meantime I'm using my boyfriend's older, somewhat slower one to get work and play (including blog posts and articles) done when he's not using it.

What would the Law of Attraction's role be in crashing computers? :-) Not much, except probably that I drew this to myself because yes, I worry that this is going to happen quite often, and I suspect that's true of a lot of people who spend their working lives on their computers. Plus that I also "drew to myself" my ability to use my boyfriend's computer so that this isn't quite the disaster it could have been.

Be that as it may, yes, I did "back up" important data (can't leave that to the Law of Attraction now, can we?), and I should be good to go again as soon as the new one gets here.

By the way, I've got to tell you about a piece of software I discovered several years ago, called Spinrite. It's working on my old computer right now, and what I hope it will do is to retrieve data I didn't back up. I've bought a new hard drive for the old computer, which I will clone from the old one, assuming the old one temporally starts working again after Spinrite is done with it. Great way to protect yourself from computer crashes -- although if I'd have thought of it, I'd have simply cloned my old hard drive's data onto a new one after a couple of years, which is about the life expectancy of a hard drive, for me.

Anyway; enough blather about computers and their idiosyncrasies. I'll be posting again soon!

Best,
Kim