I turned my computer off on Monday night and I was never able to turn it back on again. Such a sad sad day at the Van Voltenburg house it was! I never realized just how much stuff I do on the computer. Not only do I blog & surf the net on the computer, I pay the bills, check our bank accounts, order our prescription medication, plan our budget and submit our medical bills to the insurance company on our computer.
The dead computer went to the hospital and it was determined that it would cost about $475.00 to fix it. Since we only paid $500 for the thing, we opted out on fixing it. I am now the proud owner of a new computer with a 400 GB hard drive! Yes 400 GB! Is that just an insane amount of storage or what? The computer came with the Linux operating system and it was a bear to figure out how to take that off and install Windows XP but we got it done. Then sweet hubby took the memory out of the old computer and put it in the new one. Then he was able to get the hard drive out of the old computer and I was able to get all my "stuff" off of it too. I'm telling you the guy is a complete gem! :)
I'm still dealing with dial-up internet service for now but we hope to have our DSL back in about 10 days or so. I had forgotten just how slow dial-up really is and now that I've been working with it for the last few days I have no idea how I dealt with it for the 4 years before I had DSL.
In other news from our household, we now have DISH TV with DVR. When we got it I thought I would never record much because I really don't watch that much TV. Well those 100 available hours on the DVR can get filled up pretty quickly. I'm totally addicted to HGTV. I like lots of other channels too but that HGTV is some good stuff. It has been 13 years since I had cable TV and I am like a kid in a candy store. Feel free to point me in the direction of any cool shows that you like to watch.
Well gotta run -- the phone line is tied up with dial-up and I'm sure I have several more hours of recorded television programs to watch!
Later you bloggity babes! :)
Enjoy!
Posted by: Mimi | January 23, 2006 at 02:03 PM