January 20th was a bad day!! Everything went wrong!!

I did have a pleasant evening with Ken, but the rest of the day was lousy!

Woke up and discovered that Spectrum was having TV problems. After calling them they suggested I reboot the system by unplugging it. About 15 minutes later I had TV.

Not long after that, I started up my computer … or TRIED to start up my computer. It said my “profile” wasn’t available. Basically that meant that Windows (my operating system) wouldn’t start. I worked on it. I would guess I struggled for about five hours!! What ended up happening is it wouldn’t recognize any passwords so I couldn’t start up anything. I was stuck. Several hours later, I called a computer repair guy (Shawn Cremshaw). He came over immediately and quickly found my hard drive was shot. He was able to get a copy of most of my data off my drive and put it on my backup so hopefully I can get everything (or most everything) restored.

We talked about good computers and I ended up having him order me a new one. The Surface Pro I was using is very expensive but it has lots of problems. He (Shawn) said he prefers a cheaper Dell so I went with his recommendation. I’ll have a new computer in a week. In the interium, he was able to work with my older Lenovo which is actually an excellent machine. He found ways to “speed it up” and I’m in good shape. The backup from the Surface Pro is accessible from the Lenovo so I can work on everything and it’s purring. Still slower than the new Dell will be but not bad.

But that wasn’t the only stuff that went wrong. A light bulb broke off in the socket.

I received my new white rug and Ken helped me lay it. IT’s lovely but Sophie promptly peed on it. It cleaned up nicely but she was in the dog house.

Now when listing the stuff that made the day problematic, it doesn’t sound so bad but everything seemed to go wrong.

When Ken came over, he brought a really good pizza and dessert. We enjoy conversation and a very pleasant evening. I hadn’t taken time to eat anything all day, so I really enjoyed dinner.