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Posted by jennellh on September 4, 2008, 12:08 pm
In the past couple of days, I have had more than 10 greeting card
notices from american greetings . org - discarded without opening
since the header didn't 'seem' right...no cards expected -
nowaynohow! Glad you are back - Marigold/Marilyn.....jennellh
> Did you miss me??? grin
>
> After a long stint of family stuff - 6 year old grandson visit for 10 day=
s,
> 2 weeks with mom-in-law and Brother-I-L, My computer caught a virus and d=
ied
> sniff, sniff.
> The upside is that I now have a new laptop! Yay!
> Now I just have to get it all set up again and try to restore all my stuf=
f.
> Thankfully, we had a backup system for all my business books, family pics=
,
> etc. =A0I have my email too, but haven't tried yet to import it to this n=
ew
> system.
> I now have Vista Home Premium - wow does it look different, Windows Mail
> instead of Outlook Express and a trial version of Microsoft Office.
> The only additions I've added so far are the backups of my business books
> and my virus protection software, email and newsgroups, I'm not really su=
re
> what happened to the old laptop. It had been having some disturbing probl=
ems
> for awhile, and we were hoping it would last a few more months, but we ad=
ded
> a network accessable storage system for backups just incase. I guess it p=
aid
> off.
> I got a birthday ecard from an old friend and I opened it. I don't normal=
ly
> open cards anymore, but I hadn't heard from this friend in awhile. Anyway=
,
> shortly after my computer froze, and after many hours of computer techies
> (family thank god!) doing their thing they have declared it dead. Cost mo=
re
> to fix than its worth.
>
> Anyway, I'm back. Thanks for letting me tell my tale.
>
> Marilyn
> in darned cold for early Sept
> Alberta, Canada
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