Our desktop computer is dead.  We aren’t sure if the motherboard got zorched by a power surge, or if it stopped working for another reason.  The bottom line is that it stopped working.  And our main hard drive was messed up as well.  The last time we did any significant backup was a couple of years ago, so you can imagine our panic.  Our pictures, documents and other files were all at risk.  Fortunately, the computer tech was able to recover our files, but there was nothing he could do for the computer.

I am typing this entry on our new laptop.  I am trying to restore our files and install the programs that we use the most while getting used to a new operating system.  Plus I have two weeks’ worth of work that has piled up (and continues to pile up) in the meantime.  Ain’t technology great?!