Displaced Beachbums

My computer hard drive crashed this morning as I was reading my e-mail. I called the Compaq help desk and was told I would need recovery CDs which would be here in about five days. Interestingly, my “warranty” had just expired 9 days ago. Hmmm…sounds a little suspicious since the help desk person didn’t sound even remotely surprised at my description of what happened to my computer and he was all ready to sell me the extended warranty so I could speak to the more advanced tech dept agent. Well, I’m not one for waiting so I kept playing around with the computer and finally, by sheer brute force, got it to do a system recovery on it’s own. Who knows how long it will last.
Unfortunately, I lost everything in Outlook 😦 including e-mail addresses. If you’re someone I’ve e-mailed in the past, please send me a blank e-mail and I’ll add you back to my contacts list. Lesson learned: I’ll keep a hard copy of my e-mail addresses. So much for being paperless.