It's...ba-a-a-a-ck!!!!
Nov. 16th, 2018 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogLate yesterday, after a full day on the road, I picked up the box delivered to my office here containing the computer which took close to two months to diagnose and repair under warranty. All I did last night was plop it in our tech room; we had a date out to see an amazing African-American author, and we didn't get home in time for me to do anything connected with the returned product until today.
Most of the morning today was devoted to getting Horse With No Name back in the game. Fortunately, this didn't take nearly as long as backing it up weeks ago in the event Dell wiped it clean; I just had to transfer a couple of databases, reload Outlook as it stood on LaNova this morning, re-install a browser or two to its previous condition, and save/copy a few downloads from the past two weeks. It was all done by 10 a.m.- plenty of time to take Eleanor to work (she'd left Ziggy at the store after I picked her up before the lecture) and then confirm that the print/scan functions still worked at my office as they had before the repair (they did! Yay!).
I then cranked out a small but significant amount of work for a Friday afternoon, left early to join a November-birthday workout at OTF, and got home in time for a lovely dinner from my beloved, a beginning of watching BlacKKKlansman, and this post- not on the repaired laptop but on the now-backup one. To cut down on the wear and tear from travel, Horse With No Name will stay at my office in Amherst and travel only with me to Rochester; this one will become the Home Compyootur, never leaving this desk.
I will leave it now, though. Good nighhhhtttt.....
Most of the morning today was devoted to getting Horse With No Name back in the game. Fortunately, this didn't take nearly as long as backing it up weeks ago in the event Dell wiped it clean; I just had to transfer a couple of databases, reload Outlook as it stood on LaNova this morning, re-install a browser or two to its previous condition, and save/copy a few downloads from the past two weeks. It was all done by 10 a.m.- plenty of time to take Eleanor to work (she'd left Ziggy at the store after I picked her up before the lecture) and then confirm that the print/scan functions still worked at my office as they had before the repair (they did! Yay!).
I then cranked out a small but significant amount of work for a Friday afternoon, left early to join a November-birthday workout at OTF, and got home in time for a lovely dinner from my beloved, a beginning of watching BlacKKKlansman, and this post- not on the repaired laptop but on the now-backup one. To cut down on the wear and tear from travel, Horse With No Name will stay at my office in Amherst and travel only with me to Rochester; this one will become the Home Compyootur, never leaving this desk.
I will leave it now, though. Good nighhhhtttt.....