Well my laptop has finally spat the dummy (gone black – I shall call the computer man today!) without any warning, of course. Well this happens to everyone. I am surprised they have not named a syndrome for it. ‘Post computer failure stress syndrome’ or something. So I have had to move over to the tall teenagers computer while I think about what to do. Of course this means I have no photo shop, and alarmingly slow Windows 8 thingy, no files and I still cannot work out how to reduce an image to an acceptable size for you.
Just one image then. This is the most delightful shot of yesterday.
Ah well. This will just make me more discerning. I am struggling here to put a positive spin on losing my computer and everything in it. In fact I am more annoyed about losing the computer than everything in it. But it will work out one way or the other. Today is a new day and I get to see it!
I dreamed last night that I was surrounded in little farms, there were fields of cabbages, sunflowers and walnut trees next to mine and we shared rams and vegetable seeds and butter,we miked each others cows and noticed if a gate was left open. Everyone wore dirty gumboots and called out and waved from their slow red tractors as they chugged past. It was a lovely dream.
We had a startling sunny day yesterday. Just wonderful.
If I am not in tomorrow you know why.
Have a lovely day.
celi
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71 responses to “These things are sent to try us”
I hope the dream of a computer fix comes true right away 🙂
well the man is not answering his phone.. waaaaa!.. c
What a lovely dream…
yeah, imagine having farming neighbours, oh i would love that.. .. c
Argh. Those computer problems are SOOOOO irritating! Sympathy in buckets for you and hope that some blessedly nerdy person out there can wave a wand and make it chug back to life. Meanwhile, HELLO!, look at those lambies!! They were born to remind us that computers are not to be fretted over. It’s SPRING IT’S SPRING IT’S SPRING. That’s what they were saying, isn’t it? (I speak Lamb in my spare time.)
our Lamb speak is excellent, I think you read their lips perfectly! c
Such a bummer about your computer and I sure hope you can fix it. Sometimes I’d like to just chuck mine out the window, but then I couldn’t read posts and that would diminish my life now if I couldn’t catch up with my blogging peeps. I love your dream…how grand that would be. Who is that leaping at the head of the lambie pack today? Looks like they are feeling their oats, or hay as the case may be.
Oh no! One of my boys, Adam, is a computer geek. I’ve crashed two hard drives with all my commercial photo files and he has retrieved 80-ish% of the info each time, and these are massive files with thousands of images. He says that info is always retrievable and safe somewhere in the pc and so don’t let anyone tell you anything different! Hope it all gets sorted quickly for you C because I’d miss you and I’d worry about you. 🙂
Oh, gosh! I just had that happen to my lap top…only I had the blue screen of death…and the repairs were not as bad as I thought they were going to be…whew!!
Good Luck! I hope you get it fixed fast and cheap!!!
Linda
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I’m not saying this to start computer wars, just to state a simple truth. I was a typographer most of my life, worked on mainframes and large systems until Macs came out. I have also had 5 of them at home in the past 30 years. I retired 3 of those in fine working order when updates demanded it; I’m still happily using two of them every day. I have never had a crash or lost anything. (Knocking on my wooden table big time right now.) That includes at work, where I used Macs for 25 years and we had a really deficient tech department. I know people whose Macs have failed, but all of their files were retrievable. Even better, I have had the same HP laser printer for 15 years. I wish cars worked as well as my computing equipment has, and I’m wishing you the best with your own computing problems.
One of the risks of using something until all the use is out – losing it suddenly with no explanation/warning. Even though that is frustrating, frugal is awesome.
Good Luck with your computer! Happy Weekend on the Farmy:)
Agony about the computer …guess you’ll just have to go outside and play…or sit- that would be a rare event?
Do get a back-up. Or more cheaply in the meantime, remember to email things to yourself – so those will be on the server and you can still get them if the computer crashes. (after many battles with windows / PC, I’m now on a Mac – so far so good)
Love the happy lambs! They do know how to enjoy the moment
Hamlet should learn from Celi … “to sleep perchance to dream” … for yours was a most wondrous dream of happiness and all good things. Ouch re the computer. V.
Hope it gets sorted…I loved your dream!
We rely on our technology so much, it is very inconvenient to have to work around it. That is a great picture you shared today. Love those lambies!
Your dream and the lambies seem to be saying spring is on its way 🙂 IThe dream also speaks to me about the joys of real living… as we just replaced both smart phones, the dishwasher (which belongs to the apartment & my sister, not to us) is about to go on the blink and I ask myself if we REALLY need all this stuff… I love the collective knowledge and generousity in sharing it of the Commenters Lounge because as well, my trusty laptop is having ‘moments’ and I believe I will need to replace it but hoping to keep it as a backup /second device… very handy when drafting something and researching to have 2 screens/devices which I’m accustomed to at the office. I wondered about a hybrid tablet-laptop but they all seem to have Windows 8 installed, and hearing the CL’s view on Windows 8 I have my answer plus a couple of other handy IT solutions to work with. I hope your laptop lives 🙂
so do I, but if not I am finding a Windows 7.. no-one quite understand why the powers that be replaced it!!.. c
Thank goodness dreams are low tech, right? My thoughts are with you : )
You are such a clever girl,… low tech dreams!!! c