Stoopid, Stoopid, Stoopid!!!

So, I return Sunday from my whirlwind trip to Alexander City, Alabama — that’s Alex City for short — to find that I have fifty (50) e-mails in my Inbox. Only three (3) of which are from ACTUAL PEOPLE. Although, technically, I suppose spam does have to come from somewhere.

I cull through the junk mail and check out my favorite Web sites, chat with Mom for a bit on AOL and then log off to go watch the season premiere of Cold Case. Pretty good opener; have to admit, this show sometimes gets me a little teary-eyed right toward the end, and … well, yeah, it got me this week, too. I watch a bit of Martha Behind Bars starring Cybill Shepherd but can’t ever quite decide if the movie is supposed to be all satire or not ... which, if it is, it’s really not all that funny ... and if it isn’t, well ... it fails in that regard, also. (Plus they did a really shitty job on Cybill-Martha’s hair. Now, granted, Martha’s hair is sort of a mess, but on her, it works; I don’t know what kind of wig they put on Cybill, or if that was actually her own hair, but damn! A major hair-DON’T!)

In the midst of all that, I go to log back on to see if any of my buds are around for a mid-Sunday night chat. Unfortunately, I see that Windows XP has shut down and a mysterious error message is on my screen.

I spend the next day-and-a-half attempting to restart Windows. To no avail. So, finally, at about 10:30 p.m. Monday, I decide to bite the bullet and reinstall the program.

Which means saying an unplanned sayonara to the hundreds (100s) of files that I have not managed to make backup copies of. (I know, I know: At least four [4] major computer crashes in my lifetime; you’d think I’d learn, someday. If I were smarter, perhaps ... or maybe if I didn’t believe myself to be quite invincible.)

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I also did a reinstall on the laptop computer that I have been saying I am going to transfer files from for, oh, at least two (2) years now. So now I am up & running, electronically speaking! ... with oh-so-much software to reinstall on these unexpected clean-slate hard drives.

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Be back sometime next week, prolly.