Did I mention that the hard drive I bought to back up my laptop went kaput a week after I got it? So I lost everything on it... everything that hadn't been backed up to my OTHER hard drive anyhow. There was a gap of a couple of months... So no Wisconsin pics. No Kitten pics. No Keys pics. Grrr.
Anyway, a couple of blue screens later and I finally decided to call Dell. The guy asked me what was wrong, exactly, and I didn't stop talking for 15 minutes. I think he sensed my intense pissed-offedness and is now sending me a new hard drive. Of course, this means I have to re-do everything AGAIN, but it's not working now as it should anyhow. I can't sync my Blackberry with my Outlook. I can't view certain websites (including my own!). And I randomly get weird errors when starting up or in the middle of doing something. Oh, and it took me THREE TRIES to get the computer to shut off the other night, and twice last night. I would say shut down and it would restart. Or as in last night, I would put it into sleep mode and it would restart instead. ?!!?!?!
Now today I got to spend about an hour burning a simple disc for the woman whose pics I took. Grrrrrrr.
Check out the popup though.. It's so bad it's, like, funny.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
