WHA? How did I miss this thread??? Oh yeah, I have been gone all wkend.

Hope your day was as special as you are, Kay.

A very Happy Belated Birthday to you.

And another belated Happy Birthday!

I don't get here much in the summer...

Tom

THANKS, DUDES and DUDETTES !!

wow, y'all sure know how to make a gal feel special...

this makes my rotten day ALL go *flush*

and now I can go to beddy-bye with a SMILE on my face.



I swear, I'm having withdrawals from this board, what with only being able to sneak online when hubby's in the shower or something, lol !!

and sitting here, leaning mah poor HAID way BACK, so I can see the monitor in the tiny sliver between regular and close-up on my darned bifocals... wah wah wah...

maybe, just maybe, mi esposo will gimme a neck rub when I go in there whining about this crick in mah neck, eh ??

ya never know, it just might happen !!

Sorry about the painful neck Kay.

Do I guess you've been over doing it at Chez Cayokay again?

.......And what's this about no computer, Huh?

I daresay it's been hot where you are with the summer humidity. Would you like to swap for a view of snow topped mountains in the distance? Just for a little while?

oh yeah, dear Anne...

my beloved eMac croaked.

the screen went black, to a bright line from top to bottom, and then winked OUT.

argh, my LIFE is on that computer, 5000 photos, my journals, my research, everything !!

luckily, my darling daughter (29) in California used to work at the Geek Squad as their Mac Specialist, and she's repaired a couple that had this particular problem, it's fried capacitors...

she's found the right caps, (luckily, she lives in Silicon Valley, home of computer geeks galore) and she shipped them to me yesterday.

also luckily, mi esposo is ALSO a total geek, so I let them two yak it all out, (I don't do geek-speak) with long-distance diagnosis and treatment.

so, we're gonna do a little jungle boogie home-repair and soldering here, and with a little MORE luck, I'll be back in business in a couple of weeks...

cross yer fingies, kiddies !!

I truly hope all is not lost and all your photos, research, journals etc can be saved!

With this PC on it's last legs I'm trying to learn to back up everything as I go, but me being me, I do tend to forget at times, but so far almost everything of value has now been saved to disc.

At least in the "old days" we had glossy photos and negatives, as well as journals in hard copy. Oh well. We can't really complain as long as we remember to do what they tell us al the time, and back everything up.

AMEN, Anne !!