Disaster struck soon after I did my
last post which had been for my 12th book review here for Michael
Storrings New
York in Four Seasons, on October 14th, my computer died.
I called the concierge service I have on my computer from DELL. They walked me
through a series of things to do, none of which proved to be successful.
Unfortunately with the weekend approaching they couldn’t arrange for one of
their certified technicians to come to my home.
When Monday came I finally received a
call from the technician to arrange for an appointment to come to me, which
luckily would be the next day. But unfortunately the cards were against me and
he didn’t receive the part he ordered [the computer’s “motherboard”] this meant
he’d come to my home the next day [Wednesday].
I should have realized the dreary
overcast day with periods of rain would be the sign that nothing I’d hope will
come to pass. It turned out this would be the case, because try he might, the
technician could bring my computer back to life. He then immediately ordered
the power supply thing-of-ma-gig which distributes the power throughout the
computer. Luckily he’d come to my home before noon which meant the new part
would be able to be shipped later that day. This made it seven days, an entire
week; I’d be without the use of my computer.
In the morning I saw another dreary day
when I looked out of one of my windows, I prayed I wouldn’t have a repeat of the
day before. When the technician arrived on Thursday, I felt my heart
palpitating as he installed the new part and then hit the start button on the
front of the computer’s tower. When he did I heard the whirling sound of my
computer coming back to life, the operation had been 100% successful. He then
made sure all the settings for the computer had been correct before closing the
housing for the computer.
I thanked him profusely for bringing my
baby, my computer, back to life. However I still couldn’t actually use when he left
due to an appointment I needed to keep. When I finally turned the computer on
for the first time in almost eight days I had an unbelievable amount of emails
to sort through [almost 2,500] on all of my addresses, as well as other items
to handle.
The only good thing about all this had
been it afforded the time to complete editing for my anthology manuscript. It
took me the rest of Thursday and the entire day Friday to catch up with ALL of
my emails. Yesterday, Saturday, October 25th, I rested and entered
about 10 pages of edits/rewrites for my anthology manuscript.
I’m now sending out emails, tweets, etc
to/for people I couldn’t do for the pass 10 days.
This week I’d love to finish entering
my edits on my computer so I can replace the items I deleted, this time I’m
going to make sure I don’t need any editing my writing extra slow. Hopefully I’ll
be able to catch up on reading the e-books I haven’t been able to read and then
writing my reviews for each one.
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