Hard Drive

Okay, so I have a fender bender at the Home Depot. Again, so glad the man was insured. So Glad! Got my car in and out of the shop and we are on the road to recovery. Though I don't think recovery is quite the right term, I just really can't think of a better term. I drove a Chrysler 200 for 4 days. It was pretty nice, it's always nice to drive something different. But it was very low. I felt like I was sitting on the road. It was smooth, but low. And it was white. I don't like white cars. It's my thing to not own a white car. The Husband drives a white truck and really wanted me to get a white car. I held my ground through two purchases. I've had a green one and now a grey one.

Speaking of colors, my car is grey. No doubt about it. It's grey. When the adjuster put in the color, he came up with green. Nope it's not green. When I took it to the dealer, I asked, "what color is my car", and they told me, "blah blah grey". This is why I use my dealer over the shop at the corner. I may be able to get a better price, but I will not get good results. So the repairs are done and the color is grey.

During all of this, my laptop experienced some unusual activity. I was having to reboot to open files, and I was getting the blue circle too often and it was slowing down. Wisely, I purchased an insurance policy for my laptop and so I called Dell and we did a diagnosis. Bingo! Hard drive is crashing. They scheduled a tech to come out and put in a new hard drive. Yipee! So I limped it along until Tuesday afternoon when he came. Whew! It was touch and go. He installed the hard drive and left. He left me with being able to use my email and all web based programs, though I did have to go to the property management site and have them reinstall a couple of drivers. But I had no Microsoft products on my laptop! Oh no this was not good. I wasn't able to download any files to convert into a pdf and attach to an invoice. I called Dell back up, and due to all the junk going on in my life, we finally connected today and loaded the Office on and now I am almost where I was a couple of weeks ago. Some glitches but I can work through them. I've had to use a different pdf writer but it works. That's what was important.

Now the car works and looks good, and I will say I love that the dealership washes my car (there was a large crow dropping on the hood and it was almost as painful to look at as the damage from the bender) and my laptop is in a good direction. It must all be good. Now I'll start dragging files from the old hard drive and start looking for my itunes and pictures and some templates. During the Great Depression of the week, the Girl and I went to the "not suppose to call it the Del Mar Fair anymore" fair. We had a blast. Neither of us are too keen on riding the rides, so we look at all the farm animals, pet the pigs, goats and sheep, check out the cattle and look at stuff. We have to eat funnel cake, it's a given, and then we just enjoy the rest of the fair. It's the only way to go. We watched the pig races and this little piggy either swam or won, not sure which. But he is the cutest piglet ever! Yep, that is the Girl, holding a pig. She so wants one.