Puter Woe's

Where does one start? I keep thinking I am gonna get on here and catch up. I repeat this every week. I think something is changing in my life, I don't know why, or even what it is, but something is changing. I no longer have the time to just sit down and talk to everyone on here. I want to write, but it seems like there is always something stopping me from doing it. so, today, this time, i am gonna start with what has been occupying my time this week.

Let me start with last Friday. I had a doctor appointment in the morning, the kind where you cant eat or drink anything for 8 hours, so I took the night off. I had some blood work done and scan on my innards to try and find where the pain in my side is coming from. Well, she didn't see anything, so its still a mystery. I have one more scan on my liver on the 18, maybe that will solve it.

So i had enough sleep so I could function for the day. Johns computer has been infected, so infected i couldn't do anything to help it. If it were possible, bugs would be crawling out of it, it was bad. So, we recently had a new repair shop open in the shopping center around the corner so I stopped it to ask about pricing bla bla bla. After, I went back home and tried to copy my most important document files to a disk. For some reason, only two of the files copied and would open on my laptop. Luckily, they were two of the stories I had written.

So I unplugged all the wires from the puter and took it in to be cleaned and debugged. I asked if they would call me if they were gonna have ot wipe out the entire system, as I had files i couldn't grab just yet. I would figure something out. we took off for the weekend, so i didn't need the puter and didn't worry about it. I got a call on Monday saying they were gonna have to wipe it out. I ended up going to the store and buying a flash disk to try and copy the files. When i returned to the shop, i was told the files were gone, and even if i could get them, they were so infected and i would infect my laptop if I transferred the files there.

So now I have lost my files. I also lost my pictures, but i don't care as much about that. the files held my stories i wrote on that computer. I was sick. I figured I could go in the the archives of yahell and try to recover my little works of amateur literary art. Then I remembered I sent some of them to Sheila for her to read to her grand babies. Oh, i was praying she had the one i was looking for, it was one i never published on here. so i sent her a PM and asked.

This morning I got he response of my dreams. I had made a disk of  a bunch of them and sent it to her. I was crying when i read that. she said she would burn me a new disk and send it to me. I have my little treasures back. Well, not just yet, but at least now I know they aren't int eh atmosphere some where.

this has been totally occupying my time. today i picked up the puter and now I am trying to reinstall all the things i need to get it running again. I still need to find a shortcut to the Internet for the desktop. i will get it. and i swear, it John corrupts it again, he is toast and it stays that way.

that's been my week. I haven't slept that great all week. hopefully i can come home tonight and grab a few z's. good night to you.

thursday, jan 22

Sometimes i write new blogs just to change the heading i see when i open my page, that is the reason today. pretty much

My son alex called tuesday to tell me he will be leaving for his boot camp on may 11. its not boot camp in the air force, but i cant remember the correct term right now, I apologise to all military folks out there. i will know all the correct terms soon enough. He was also informed he will be going to Mississippi for this and he will work in the electronics area. I don't know what kind of electronics, John asked me that question. I don't know. that was one of his choices, he is happy I guess. that is what matters in the end isn't it, as far as parents are concerned. our kids are happy or satisfied.

once more, i don't have to got to work tonight.I have one of those doctor appointments where i cant eat or drink anything for eight hours. that is fine with me. right now i have a few issues going on at work that I am sorta pissed off about. its a favoritism thing with leadership. Not good. I wont go into it here, i did the right thing to correct it, it just bothers me. oh well, i have the entire weekend to forget about work.

and finally, for the weekend. we are going to johns brothers for a crab feed at druids hall. his brother is the head guy there now, so john will be helping him again. I will be on my own to mingle and enjoy. oh, and snarf down a large amount of yummy sweet dungeness crab. there is supposed to be around 125 people and 800 pounds of crab. I love dungeness crab. this is from oregon right now. the ocean has been too rough from what i have heard off of california. i don't know for sure, that is just what i have heard.

i better get back to csi. i just needed to change the heading on my page.

Inaugeration Day, 2009

Here is it. this most historical day. I really do hope that Mr. Obama is able live up to all the expectations he carries. I would almost hate to be him right now, but this is what he wanted when he signed up. Good for him and his family. I wish him success in his four or eight years in this job.

As we worked our way up to this day, all we heard was how He was gonna save the world, so to speak. I wish all the past presidents had this kind of support from the people. it may have made a difference in our history as a nation. this president is not only getting support from the United states, but almost every other country on our world map. In my lifetime, i dont recall seeing this happen. it is very historical for our nation, the first black/white president. sorry for that, he really is half white. I think its about time. for all of our progress as a nation, a super power, wealth, equality, you know all of them, its about time we decided to move forward. you never know, someday we may decide its ok to elect a female.

He has a big task ahead of him. Our economy sucks. we were lied to about that during a time when some of us could have done something to save some of our money. Now we wonder about the future of our 401k's, our pensions, jobs, homes, bills. the list goes on and on. he also has a war or two going on. is he really expected to solve all these problems. these are huge issues to have to deal with. he is ahead of his game though as far as getting his team in place. he appears to be able to hit the floor running, although some of his choices are questionable. he will have to work through that also.

well, i wish him success. I hope the media treats him with more respect than they have some of our past leaders. right now he is Godlike in their eyes, how long will that last? we will see. I hope they respect the distance from his children. they are still innocent and need to grow up. Im sure they will be followed for awhile, I worry about children in the white house. they cant defend themselves. I guess that is what the secret service is for.

I also wonder about Michelle Obama. She seems like a very nice person. many presidents wives take on tasks and become involved in the background of their husbands job. I havent kept up with every word as some people do and have done in this election. i dont think i could handle that. its just too much.

I also am happy for the outgoing president and his wife. He hasnt had an easy time in these eight years. Not many do, but this started bad and just kept going. we dont hear too much about the good he did, and yes, he did have good things he did. we havent been attacked again, and I respect him for that. he kept the bad guys on their own land. well, im sure we will all be able read and hear more about the Bush family in the near future.

well, this is long enough for me today. i know most of you join me in wishing the Obamas success.

What a Week I have had

Where do i start???? Once again, it has been one of those weeks. last weekend, the power supply died on my laptop. GASP!!!!!!!! yes, that is what i said too. so i got online and checked the price for new powercords. at best buy it was 71.00 for the just the part that plugs into my laptop. from costco it was 100.00 for the whole assembly and then some. I ended up calling the costco concierge service that comes free with eletronic purchases from there. within two minutes i was talking to a real person and he was looking up my file. we spoke for a while and he finally told me i still had until march 31 on my warrenty. big ole woo hoo! I was so happy to find that out. i get my broken part for free.

so anyway, he tells me he has to hook me up with HP, but he is staying on the line. so i am soon talking to the guy from HP. he asks me if the blue light comes on when i plug in the power cord, no. that is how i figured it was the power cord. so he says he is going to send me a new power cord, for free. if that doesnt work, he will send me a box and to return my laptop and they will fix it. well, gus wut? fed ex arrived on tuesday, i was asleep and missed them. long story short, i had to drive to fed ex, all the way around the corner and ask them to hold it so i could pick it up after work. I did this on thursday and it WORKS!!!! YIPPEEE!!!!,

Ok, that was the beginning of my week. on tuesday, i had to be to the dentist by 9 am for a cleaning. i hate having my teeth cleaned. it seems like they poke that probe down to my jawbone. it freaking hurts. I had to have it done before thursday, which i will talk about in a minute. I finally left, after forking over 1400.00 for thursdays appointment. that is what hurt the most, and still is.

ok, so wednesday I had a doctors appointment at 110. I have a wonderful doctor, so i didnt mind staying awake to see her, plus, she is so busy i was lucky to get in so soon. I have had this irritating cough plus this pain that comes and goes on my right side. the cough drives me crazy, but the side pain freaking hurts. I figured it could be my appendix or kidney. so i get in there, she asks all the questions, and decides to send me to get a scan on my galbladder. hmmm, it could be stones and a little time off maybe. i finally got home around two, and to bed after 3. I had to be to a meeting at work at 11 so i got to sleep till 9. i was tired.

Now, on to thursday. if you recall, last year i had some prework done so I could get posts put in my mouth to replace two teeth. thursday i started that procedure. i got in there, got sat down, and they put a blue hairnet on me along with dark safety goggles. HUH?? I could have had heavy drugs, but i chose the shot only. TG. after i got the shot, my really cute doctor started poking my mouth, does this hurt, can you feel this. no and no.  so he starts cutting.  and drilling into bone, put in a pin, do a full mouth exray, go back put in the posts. and send me home.

i was told no alcohol, thats ok. i came home and kept ice on my face until i took the pain killer and passed out. i have been in some kind of sleeping mode off and on since yesterday afternoon. I woke up this morning and I was more swollen than i was yesterday. I took more anti inflammatory. I feel sorta like crap. i have stuff to do but no desire to move from bed. I will, but i dont want to. i even have had a headache i cant seem to get rid of. sorry for whining here. i know i will feel better tomorrow. I did take off work last night, at least i thought in advance for that.

oh yeah, one more thing. this is a good thing I think. Alex swore into the airforce on monday. he wont know when he will deploy to base camp until next week sometime. I dont know if i told you this. he ran out of money for school. we offered to help him finish but he said he wanted to take care of it himself and this was his way of doing this. he will do trainging in texas but will come home before he goes in. i will keep you updated on the progress.

so that is it for me right now. i will try to not be gone for so long next time.