Back On!

Well, the computer guy got the computer fixed, I think. He said that the video card had somehow got deleted. What I think happened was a power surge fried both that and the modem port. He replaced the display driver and updated everything. The reason why I say the modem got fried was because he told DH that one of the ports where you can plug in the phone jack (yes, we're still on dialup) was dead. As far as I know, it wasn't dead before. *shrugs*

I hooked everything back up and after several restarts, I have been able to function okay. I wouldn't say it's functioning "normally" but I was able to get online tonight to update the blog and such. :) I also FINALLY got the darn thing to recognize my USB drive and copied everything from "My Documents" and "My Pictures" to the USB drive. Now the thing can die for all I care—although, I really don't want to have to replace the computer yet. I hope that whatever the computer guy did keeps it limping along for awhile longer.

Ugh. I look around this room at an absolute mess. I recently took over one side of the computer room as a craft area, and since I was doing some ATCs (artist trading cards) this week, that side of the room is rather unkempt. I still have stamps, stamp pads, and other accoutrements sitting out on the table. There are little scraps of paper all over the floor. (I won't even mention all of DD's toys behind me in boxes, spilling out everywhere.)

Not much else has been going on this week. I feel less anxious with internet access regained. Hehe. I'm such an addict. It's not that I'm an addict, at least not as much as I used to be, because I used to be on every night for approximately four hours straight playing Ultima Online. That was addiction. Now I mostly surf writing.com, fmwriters.com, Nanowrimo, or I'm here at Blogger. I have other things I need to work on also, like my website and my online journal. Whatever I work on, I try not to spend as much time online as I once did.

What made me anxious was not having the access. I don't get online every night, but I like for that access to be there if I want to get online to read forums, or whatever.

I live such a thrilling life, don't I? :)

Oh, and in case you were wondering, I moved the Nanowrimo progress icon to a "sticky" post at the top of the blog, so that it wouldn't break the sidebar layout. It will go away after November. :)