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don't forget the electric toothbrush and drugstore reading glasses - and beer. -----Original Message----- From: Barb_MSN <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 2:48 PM Subject: Non PD/AAAARGH!! >Dear List-family.... > >I'm hoping this message makes it to the List 'cause while having my 'puter >serviced - what was to be a system clean-up and adding a new mouse and >scanner to the system - ended up being a total loss of data on both hard >drives! (the techie nearly croaked when THAT happened!) > >There were huge files on the hard drives going back three and a half years >to the two years I worked online for Microsoft that no Microsoft techie >TODAY had even a CLUE what those files did or what program they were a part >of. > >Soooo.... other than the aggravation of losing all the files I value (none >of which is THAT important to me, in all honesty) and the time spent trying >to reconstruct those program I still want on my system (like "ICQ" and a >coupla other neat Web pages), it was prolly just as well that the impetus >was there to reformat the hard drives and start the system at square one >again. > >IF I owe any of ya a reply to any email ya may have sent me over the past >week, please drop me a note and lemme know 'cause I have no record of any >past messages. <GRRRRR> > >It was quite a week! My PC was in the shop, for all intents and purposes, >deader than the proverbial dormouse, and just to let me know that machines >DO run the world, my car died on me! OK... ok... so it just needs a new >battery, but STILLLLLL... did I NEED that? > >So far, the three most valuable inventions in the 20th century that I have >in my possession - the microwave, the blowdryer, and the electric >mattress-pad (don't know how I lived without it!) that envelops me in toasty >warmth each night as I drift off to sleep haven't gone the way of my puter >and car - THANK GOODNESS! > >Anyway, m'friends, it's good to be back on the List... I missed ya! > >Barb Mallut >[log in to unmask]