A Blog Blarg

Blarg!!! So, my wonderful overworked hard drive crashed, oh, like two weeks ago. I shipped the little thing of to my Dad so he could save all the info for me. Oh it works juuuuuuuuuust fine for him. That's great. He is able to pull all my important irreplacable files off of it, and completely copy the thing. He ships it back to me along with a whole library of CD/DVDs to reintall windows on my new four-times-as-big hard drive we purchased. (See, the old one had 40 G and a new one with 160 G was just over half a benjamin and we figured the old one was toast at the time we made the decision to purchase the new one. So no comments about friviously spending our monies.) Since we bought the CPU from a friend I have none of the original setup disks that came with it. My dad helped me install windows XP like 4 different times (over the phone, man is my neck kinked) trying to get something to work. It would be an even longer story with all the details.

So we get Windows XP Pro installed, which is what I had before, all the drivers are updated, the internet is up, everything looks pretty good. Most the display settings are set where they should be. This has been a pretty tedious process that started Thursday around 2 p.m., lasted until 10:30 p.m. last night, and resumed at 7:15 o'dark-hundred this morning. Where was I? Oh, yes, we were all set up, almost. When going to do my windows updates it tells me I can't activate my windows! Well, I'll be!! So, here I am RE-Installing Windows XP Home onto the new hard drive. I should be a pro at this by now, I've only done it like 15 times.

Good news, though. I was able to activate my XP Home edition and the windows updates have just finished. I think we are well on the road to recovery. And I didn't even poke my eye out, like I very much wanted to. Go me.

Oh, and I did pay LOTS of attention to the baby today. I gave up my naptime to complete this fun adventure. I'm going to need some serious chocolate tonight. It's times like these that I'm sure I'd kick a few back if I were a drinker. Instead, I'll opt for the less serious offense, death by chocolate.

Good Day.

All the great things your mother ever said

He's asleep. Any ideas on how this happens??? I couldn't figure it out. I was too busy giggling.

Brady's First Haircut

It was time for us to trim those fine little locks of his. He looked like a shaggy little guy whose momma doesn't love him. So off we went to the hair salon (Super Cuts, fancy, huh?).



Check out that snazzy cape. And Carl, that's a hot man bag you have there.

The stylist had this toy camera to entertain Brady. She said he wasn't too bad and that she wished more kids would behave like he did.

Brady is checking out his new 'do, and talking on dad's phone.

Off with the snazzy cape! You're all done!

What a handsome little boy!!

Rockin' 'Dos

We had some fun with Brady's hair before getting it cut.

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Snow is Falling All Around

On the house tops, on the ground.

And it is "snow" wonderful! The official house weatherman has reported 4 inches on the front lawn. 8 inches have settled on the garbage can from the wind blowing it around and such.

This one was taken 10 minutes after we shook all the snow from the plant.

I was driving earlier when it had just started. It was so great to see large flakes of snow gracefully falling from the sky. It's a good thing we brought our snowblower!!

Carl, are you sure we're not in Utah anymore?

Clicking and seizing

My thoughts:

This darn computer. It's not starting. It keeps getting stuck on this screen. Call Dad and we'll get it fixed.

A few months later:

I should back up my pictures to a CD or something. Just in case.

Around Christmas:

Hey a USB memory stick. Now I can get those pictures backed up.

Not too soon thereafter:

The computer keeps making a clicking noise and seizing up. Not even CTRL + ALT + Delete is having any effect. Push the power button. Oh, that doesn't work either. Flip the power supply (My dad would KILL me if he knew I was doing this.)

Friday morning:

What the?!?! Why does the computer keep rebooting itself? I guess I'll call Dad. I guess I'll get that memory stick out to back up the pictures now.

After a few conversations with Dad:

No virus, bad hard drive, eh? I need a super careful techie to rescue all my files, eh? Well shoot. I guess I shoulda listened to that prompting to back up those pictures. Where to I find someone as tediously careful as my father to do the job with out breaking the bank?

At least we've got the lappy.

Lesson Learned:

Helaman 13:38 But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.

Do not procrastinate the day of your important file backing-up. You never know when it will be everlastingly too late, and your file destruction made sure.