More Drama

As if dealing with the loss of our family pet didn't cause enough stress in my life, I'm also dealing with the loss of my computer. It decided to crash and, of course, I didn't have everything backed up. My husband always comes to the rescue and the first thing he asks is if I've backed up my stuff. Huh? Really? Isn't that something you do for me? I know you've told me a hundred times. You can always fix it though. Not this time. Boo hoo. Anyway we picked up a new one, sans the monitor since I already have one. Guess who got to talk to the nice folks in India for close to three hours today. Yep, it was me. The first time it was the HP computer. When everything they tried to get me to do didn't work, I got them to send me recovery disks instead of having to create my own. I think my husband it teaching me the pain of computer ownership. Later in the day I needed to talk to Microsoft because it wasn't recognizing the software I was trying to reload. The last guy I spoke to was great. We became buds during our 90 minutes together. It was pretty cool actually. I gave him the ability to take over my computer, so I could see what he was doing on my screen while he was doing it. It made me feel pretty good because I had done a lot of what he was doing. To make a 90 minute story short, they had to issue me a new product number and reregister it. While I was loading and unloading disks, we chatted about the Oscar winning movie "Slumdog Millionnaire." I really liked this movie and he did, too. It's not an upbeat fun movie like it looks on the previews, it is a quite depressing and violent film and it highlights the horiffic slum conditions in Mumbai. The characters were not professional actors and so it only goes to show that you don't have to be Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie to be a star. Check it out.

Now, I have to remove my old hard drive and get the info off of it. I think this sounds like a great technology assignment for my homeschooled daughter and her dad!