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Being held prisoner for ransom is no fun at all.<\/p>\n
Ask Dave Hardin. He barely escaped with his life and someone’s pink bathrobe.<\/p>\n
Aside from my senile 15-year-old computer whining about having to work well past the age of retirement and my two spoiled brat cats Punkin and Emma, neither of whom appreciates the sacrifices I go to for them, my life has been quite placid up to now.<\/p>\n
However, no bad deed goes unpunished and my forcing a wretched robot to go on past its normal life span resulted in the Olde Thinge going on strike with a blatant shutdown. So I called the Local Computer Geek, who took the Olde Thinge off my hands, moved all my SH & IT to a massive backup drive, wiped the HDD, and tried to reload the system – to no avail. When robots get stubborn, they get stubborn.<\/p>\n
However, being the hoarder that I am, as I was cleaning out junk and polishing this & that, I pulled out the Photoshop CS3 disc box, the MSFT Office discs in their original jacket,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em> the recovery disc set for Windows XP, called the LC Geek, and asked if that was what he needed. He said “YES!!!”\u00a0 several times, stopped by to pick up the discs, and went on his merry way, a very happy person. He even admired my ridiculous hoard of floppies. Remember those?<\/p>\n I am no longer held hostage, and I did get my work space sorted out – for the most part.\u00a0 I also have two clean bathrooms and I (finally) sent my sister a “Thank you” for the fleece sweater jacket she sent me for Christmas. I also found some interesting articles about Obozo and Shrillary from 2009, what their “attitude” (Snrrtt!) was back then and found them to be verrry interesting stuff.\u00a0 Lots of paper is going to the bulk shredders. Lots of it. Now I can tackle all those books that I don’t want, which will go to the local library for their book sale room. I have a copy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry – two volumes of it, the 1850 edition – and I may keep that because she addresses child labor in a couple of them. Where do we hear about that now?<\/p>\n So was I bored to tears?\u00a0 No, it snowed. Snow kept the whole neighborhood busy. It would have been nice to be some place on a beach, watching the waves roll in, but no, I was busy all the time. Texting by phone kept me informed. I got a lot of stuff done. My bad former Outdoor Kitty Emma decided that cold snow wasn’t her cup of tea, after all, and banged on the front door 8 minutes after she bolted to the outdoors.<\/p>\n Now I need a vacation.<\/p>\n So what were you guys up to while I was away? Anyone got any good bank robbery stories?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"