Bad Day at Black Rock

Oh, gheez, the reconstruction of the laptop is not going well. Paul has actually been doing pretty well getting the programs loaded back onto the laptop. But today he found out that since the hard drive was reformatted the backup unit of data files doesn't recognize the "new" hard drive as having been backup before. So, he's lost all of his bookmarks and any files that aren't considered documents. Cats and I laying low again today.

Inauguration Day

Things pretty quiet today. Chessie is much calmer today and so is Paul. His laptop came back from Dell yesterday after having a new motherboard and miscellaneous other parts replaced. This is the third motherboard in it and the third time it had been returned to Dell for repairs (it's only 4 yrs old). When he got it back yesterday he was unable to connect to the Internet because they had wiped out his network and IP connection setup and we couldn't figure how to do it and neither could India. So after spending about 6 hours on the phone to India yesterday afternoon/evening he finally got it up and running BUT he had to reformat the system and reinstall the operating system. That means that he now has to reinstall all the other programs and everything else he lost. He is NOT a happy camper. Thank goodness he does have a backup for all the data files. The cats and I have been laying low.