After ending/starting the year with a bang at Winterfest at Liberty, everything seems to have fallen apart. Don't get me wrong, I'm not whining. Just frustrated. After I got home from a couple of days at Peggy's, my computer started acting up. 

I'd be on line and out of nowhere, I'd loose my signal with a box telling me I had no connectivity. This has happened on occasions before, but it was happening every few minutes. Finally, I called my computer doctor who worked on it and restored it back to factory settings.  This caused me to lose several important things: my calendar and my address book. Files and pictures were saved, all of my contacts gone.

Fired it back up and things were fine for about 15 minutes then I lost my signal again. This time, the doctor recommended I replace it as it was getting some age on it. So, I did and he was able to save again my files and pictures, but address book and calendar were still gone. I went through all of the pain of getting my calendar for the year re-established and began recording the emails I could remember.

My calendar is, again, complete. But I've lost several hundred email addresses, mostly from business contacts but also from family members and friends that I contacted mostly when I posted to these pages. Getting those back will be an on-going pain.

While re-establishing my calendar, I discovered that two of Liberty's football games in 2011 are at the same time as both the Richmond and Martinsville races. That will stress us a bit.

While my signal was better with the new computer, I still lost it periodically and after consulting for the third or fourth time with my service provider, they decided the modem for our in-house wireless network might be the problem and are in the process of sending us a new one. My old computer may not have been the problem at all.

Finally, the first time I tried to print something out, I discovered that my printer isn't compatible with the new computer's Windows 7. So, a new printer is on order. I hate computers. By the way, send me an email to chillie@houseofalls.com so I can get you back in the address book.