It’s alive!! Well, sort of.

What else can I say. I don’t know what killed my computer the other day, but it was simply not working. Start bar vanished after it was on for a few minutes, which was very frustrating. Even more annoying, it failed just as I was about to possibly finish the absolute minimum needed for promoting my jewelry website! Very painful. Good thing I had uploaded everything.

Fortunately, we have access to some of those thumb-size memory sticks that work in a USB port. The computer ran fine in Safe Mode, but you can’t burn a CD. So I was able to back up my files anyhow using the memory sticks. Very painful to do with only 2-128 MB sticks and my medical transcription computer to transfer the results to CD. It took a very long time.

Now I’m busily trying to get the email boxes to work on everyone’s Netscape profiles. It’s not easy, but I have Brent’s working now and am working on mine. For some reason, more of my profile appears to have been saved. I might even get my bookmarks back, yet Brent’s weren’t saved, nor were Lisa’s. I do not know why. I did the same thing to get each file, deleting things as necessary to have enough room. Killing the trash can, after all, is not a big deal. Had to kill a couple of my Inboxes too, but I was able to limit that to ones which the server keeps my emails anyhow, so the damage should be minimal, aside from probably having to download a million emails and redeleting the ones I don’t want.

Call this a good reminder to back up EVERYTHING regularly.

Ariel’s had an exciting time here lately too. A couple weeks ago, we saw some catepillars make coccons on our fennel plant, about a dozen of them, so we took four of them and put them in a small cage. Two hatched yesterday. They’re swallowtail butterflys and very pretty. After their wings unfurled we released them. Ariel was pretty good about that, although I could tell she was disappointed. She kept asking us to go out and get her butterflys back. Nice miniature nature lesson for her.