Vic: "I give I give I give. I give up!" (opens in separate window)

my nightmare in progress

friday, november 1st, 2024

A Day In The Life.

This seemingly unending computer mess -- I take full blame for the first part of it when I stupidly wiped the Main machine's HD w/ a Win-7 O/S reload -- started on Wednesday, October 2nd, and didn't seem that bad, as I had a spare, identical computer to substitute -- all files intact on one of my external drives in the Office-Sunroom -- while my Main HP Computer went into MBIT's Shop for repairs. The 2nd part of this mess: everything was going "normally" until I used CCleaner to "update" 15 outdated drivers, on Saturday October 26th, and the spare computer crashed, and for 3 days, I had nothing. Nothing. Somehow, I got by until Tuesday, October 29th, and Ryley brought the Main Computer back, with a new super fast SSD (Solid State Drive) and we switched units.

Now, for installing and configuring a multitude of programs. I discovered that my HTML program -- TopStyle v3.5 was missing -- so I opened a new copy on one of my 2 external drives, and then discovered that an unknown number of files were also MIA. SHIT! most of 1996 - 2024 were unavailable in the specified directory/folder. DOUBLE SHIT! I've lost many, many hundreds of "Journal" files -- HTML documents and pictures -- from 1996 on. Ail of it has stopped working

From 11a to 8p on Tuesday, I worked on restoring what I could to the super-fast SSD drive, from my other drives, and just made myself exhausted. Too late a 6p, to take a nap. I've checked all the drives, and can't find any of the MIA files/docs/pics. Gone. Also, my email address book was also wiped, so if you can, send me an email to I can put you back into my book. If you've recently sent an email, I didn't get it on this Main machine yet. And to boot, the Mail has now stopped working, as of Wednesday morning. Damn. I'm not ignoring anyone; nothing is working this morning...

"Someone" has a sense of humor. Heh.

With Sherry here on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon, my computer browser, Opera v90, suddenly started cooperating with the excellent "Speed Dial" feature, after I'd spent hours and hours trying to get it to work. She's *MAGIC*. Still no email since Saturday, October 26th. I can send, but I still can't receive anything. Shit, as of 8:30p, I can't even send anything, on any of my 2 accounts. OK, now I've deleted the accounts, re-installed my primary account and now can receive, but not send. WTF? I gave up for the night, at 10:30p.

I tried again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again on Thursday to get email set-up and working, and finally gave up... AGAIN. No point in getting my BP off-the-charts. I skipped breakfast, had the rest of the Steamed Pork Dumplings and Lo Mein for lunch, and left for the Dr's app't at 3p. I have to get away from the computer and get some fresh air. It's seemingly without end, but maybe I'll get it all reinstalled so that it W-O-R-K-S.

Tomorrow starts a new week here in what's left of the "Journal" for the past couple of weeks, but I always look forward to...