FYI

Our laptop died a few weeks ago. Virus. Which is interesting because of course we have virus protection. Whatever.

Anyways, I called my IT professional brother who determined that I was out of options on my own. If I wanted to save the data (which I desperately did- I have the last year of pictures not backed up, and Excel spreadsheets that are like children), then I'd need to take the computer to a professional. He then casually mentioned that he could do it in a few hours if he had it. I said, "Great. I'll mail it to you!" Having an IT professional who also loves me look at my computer and fix it for the price of shipping? Yes, please.

So I've been maintaining everything with the Internet on my iPhone (Rob was out of town for most of this time, so his laptop wasn't available). I can do a lot that way, but writing a blog post isn't something easily done with a touch screen keyboard. Plus, my pictures aren't here.

Anyways. The laptops are in the mail on their way back to me. I say laptops because when I grumbled about my piece of trash laptop that I've never liked since day 1, and which the kids use to play Internet games and accidentally click on questionable links, IT Brother offered me a laptop that he had just sitting around. Umm, yes. I would like your free laptop. So he's sending back the fixed one which will become the kids', and then the other one will be mine. So I can look at my Excel docs without asking the kids to get off their games. And I can write blog posts even when they have their laptop in the basement, streaming Netflix. That's a win-win.

Until next week, then.