My computer has been acting up for a couple of weeks. My engineer friend came over last weekend and did a bunch of stuff and its seemed ok for a couple days and then suddenly it wasn't. It liked to suddenly shut itself off and restart. Sometimes it would restart just fine and other times it wouldn't, so I'd shut it down and wait and then start it up.

Last night it totally freaked, asking me for the boot disk. It wouldn't do anything.

*Luckily* I have a dinosaur of a laptop in case of emergencies. Its slooooow. Runs Win98. But it works. I have it docked to my keyboard and monitor and mouse for easy manuvering.

So.....I'm still here, for the time being. Hopefully the laptop will hold out. Maybe my engineer friend can do CPR on my poor desktop and bring it back to life.

I have to say, I had a panic moment this morning when I hooked up the laptop and realized the modem hooks up with a USB cable and not the Ethernet cable. Luckily, I found the USB cable quickly, phew!!!

Aaaah, technology.....don't realize how much I rely on it until I almost don't have it.