Fried!

A couple weeks ago, my computer started showing me the blue screen of death every time I tried to use the DVD burner to, you know, back up my files (aka a gazillion pictures). I never got to back up those files.

Is the suspense killing you yet?

You guessed it . . . while we were camping this past weekend, a lovely thunderstorm rolled through (we haven’t had any moisture fall out of the sky for 4 months!). Everything in the house was turned off, but alas, we did not unplug things. And even though all things computer are plugged into a surge protector, apparently the protection did not work. My computer got fried by lightning. Quite like the DVD player and subwoofer hooked up to the TV got fried last summer - sparks actually flew! So, I have no computer. It’s at the computer doctor right now trying to get any information off the hard drive that we can - I’m thinkin’ it’s not lookin’ good. Oh the horror! My kids might be missing the month of July in their scrapbooks for 2008!
In addition, the modem got fried. Hubby tried to get onto the Internet to work on his thesis and NOTHING happened. Kind of a big deal when you’re trying to complete your homework to get your doctorate! So, he’s out buying a new modem and getting it configured.

And I’m online building myself a new computer - woo hoo! I can finally get a laptop and work on the deck instead of in my dungeon!

When all is said and done, we’ll be out a couple thousand bucks . . . ICK! Not what we needed at the moment!