Curse of Safe Mode!

Where do I begin? I got home tonight with every intention of doing some writing, and DH tells me that our home computer will only boot up in safe mode.

Safe mode? I could not believe it. It had worked fine on Thursday evening, when I had posted some other writing. I shut down the computer as usual after I was finished posting, and nothing weird happened upon shutdown. So after supper, I spent two hours trying to fix the problem.

Why was it booting into safe mode? I followed the help instructions, but nothing was working. I gave up and told DH to call the computer guy on Monday. But I was devastated; I have been working so hard and making daily writing a real priority. And NaNoWriMo is coming up in November, and I am definitely doing that. I can still do that because I have a laptop, but it doesn't have a modem and I can't log on to the internet with it.

The bad part of the whole situation is that, although I have backups of my writings, we have a lot of family photos on the computer that are too large for floppy disks and the computer won’t recognize my USB drive, so I may lose all of them if the computer guy can't save anything and has to reformat the drive. Sigh.

I should have learned my lesson, right? But I thought with this brand new drive (in 2004), that it would last a long time. Perhaps it is just time to get a new computer entirely.

Withdrawal has been a pain in the butt. I wrote anyway, not willing to give up so easily. I am just so disappointed that this happened!