Ghosts In My Computer and I Finally did a Backup!

Welp, I finally got up off my butt after a month and took my computer to the repair shop. I was about 90% content using my husband’s computer but for some reason he kept asking me “have you decided what you’re going to do about your computer yet?” Poor guy seldom uses his computer but he should at least be able to sit down and use it when he wants to without having to pry me from the chair.

Along with the computer repair I treated myself to a new video card and a cordless keyboard and mouse and I’m just loving my new toys. My games are so much clearer and I don’t know what the big deal is about the cordless mouse but it just seems to make my life so much easier.

Most of the data on my hard drive was able to be recovered and if I’ve lost anything at all it is pretty minor. Funny thing though, when I woke up this morning and checked out this blog my template had been reset to the default Wordpress template! Now, that’s weird! I cannot come up with any reasonable explanation for this at all, but this is the second time something strange has happened with this blog. The other time I woke up and one of my recent posts had been marked to “private”. I would never mark a post as private here so I just figured I hit the wrong place in the WP dashboard while I was editing. I guess just to be on the safe side I’d better change my password. It really creeps me out thinking someone has the ability to go into my settings and mess around.

One thing the broken computer finally prompted me to do was make a backup. Do you hear that world? After years of saying “I need to get around to that” I finally got around to it! I backed up my data to my 80 gig external drive and I plan to do it weekly from now on. I don’t ever want to go through a scare like this again. The biggest stress about the dead computer was losing all my files. My silly little data would probably be stupid junk to anyone else, but by golly, it’s MY junk. :p