Guy Stuff at Guys Clubhouse

Yikes! Well, I went to my computer a few days ago and found it had rebooted and was waiting for me to sign in. I thought that was odd as the power hadn’t gone out but, what ever,I signed in, only to find my computer was now fd. I mean big time Fd!! The worst I have ever seen! I unplugged it from the Internet right away and am quite pissed off right now. What ever I have will not even let me install the programs to be rid of this thing. I’ve even renamed the programs but this thing is smart! So, what to do? First, thanks to Steph for this old IBM “ThinkPad”!  I actually use it all the time and right now it’s a life saver! My main machine is not dead, but it will take 5 to 10 minutes to open a file or program. I need to back everything up asap. I usualy do back up stuff to a disk, but at this point what’s backed up and what isn’t is a good question.  I figure I should backup everything from scratch. Time for an external hard drive.  Now, let me say I do not like shopping at Staples because I find the one up here doesn’t usually have what I’m looking for.  For some reason, if  they do not have what’s in the sales flier, they are happy to order it in for yea, as long as you pay up front. What? I know. I was like, “Dude, it’s your sales flier, why do I have to pay up front?” I just left that day. Today friends, was a door crasher! I was ready! I pounded my elbows against wooden beams for 3 days to toughen them up. I did the Steven Segal acupuncture with the incense burning on the ends of the needles! I even refused to make love to my wife in case it made me a tad weeker!  My goal was the HP 2 TB “Simple Save” hard drive for $99.00!! I know, I knew it would be a battle but I trained hard that week! I figured they open at ten, so I’ll get there at 8! After waking up at 9:45  and racing to the mall, I was happy there were only 200 people ahead of me. Strangely, it was ok though, it wasn’t like Walmart. When I got there they gave me a coupon for the HP “Simple Save”, then I got in line and sure enough, received the “Simple save”! I even got the 16 gig usb for 12 bucks! My point here is that I didn’t need any elbows, everything was quite organized, and for the first time I actually enjoyed shopping at Staples. BTW, as I type this, the hard drive is 44% done backing up my files. Hope I’ll have things running again in a couple of days! K see ya

JJ