Feeling proud

Karen's old laptop crashed about 2 years ago. It's hard drive had a total, unrecoverable meltdown and hasn't breathed since. I managed to purchase and install a new, much bigger one last night. Word from the home front is that the machine is not only breathing again, but working beautifully now. For a man whose understanding of things technical is, what's the right word...limited, this is a pretty great moment.

And we're back...

So I've finally gotten my computer back to breathing again, though I've discovered you can't sync your computer to your iPod, only your iPod to your computer. This fits in the category of moderate bummer (i.e., somewhere between a chigger infestation and a root canal), since I either have to content myself with never sync-ing my iPod again, or else re-load everything off CD onto my computer again. I also lost most of my email addresses from my friends in Iowa and elsewhere, so if you are one of those dear friends, please email me so I can re-add you to my address book.

Arrrggh!

I spent most of today's waking hours fighting with a virus that has somehow slipped past my anti-virus program. Thankfully, I have been able to burn a copy of all of my documents, though I fear my email contacts, I-tunes playlists, and such may be doomed. We'll see what happens after I get through to tech support at the anti-virus software company. A friend told me he thinks that the virus has been successfully destroyed, but that it damaged the anti-virus software and/or part of the operating system files in the process, causing me to be stuck in a loop from which there is apparently no escape. We shall see. In the meantime, I must bum computer access from my very understanding bride, who is asleep now. Hopefully, I'll get the thing working again soon. Finishing up my sermon tonight at 10:25 instead of by 3:00 this afternoon like I'd planned was more than a little frustrating.

Technology...wonderful when it works.

Thanks!

For those of you on the RSS, you might not notice that I have changed layouts. I got bored with the old one, so I've made a few updates.

To all of you reading this: Thanks for reading and paying attention to my ramblings all these months. I hope you're still enjoying the journey.