Yay!!

Hi, everyone!

 

Boy, am I happy to be signing on here again!

 

My youngest daughter Katie (you can see her in the John Wayne post) ~

 

"Classic Movie Katie" we called her when she was younger ~

 

got a new job at TCM (Turner Classic Movies)

 

 where she interned a few years back, right before graduation.

 

So, I am here in Atlanta helping her get set up in her new apartment.

 

However, just a couple of days before I came down to help,

 

the day Katie (also my computer fixer) left,

 

 ( of course...that's when problems happen ) ~

 

I had just finished my last blog post,

 

 and was searching on my computer for apartments, etc.,

 

looking at antebellum homes for sale that I could no way afford...;^)

 

just looking around in general, and all of a sudden the screen

 

turned white for a minute, then this official-looking "FBI"

 

notice came up...I had been allegedly looking at something that could

 

get me in big trouble, it said, and all I had to do to get out of it was to pay

 

$450...hmmmm....buying off the feds for $450? I don't think so, and

 

besides, all I had been looking at was real estate!

 

It locked up everything on my computer. :^(

 

 

It's called the "FBI Virus", and it is a nasty one.

 

Long story short (er), I had to have everything "wiped" from my computer,

 

returning it to the factory settings.

 

It was an extended-family member who did this, and he was (thankfully)

 

able to save all my photos by putting my hard-drive into another computer...

 

but it took four and a half hours; if I had taken it to a store for repair,

 

I doubt that they would have taken the time to do this.

 

So now my photos are safely on a flash-drive

 

(there was Jonathan's graduation on there,

 

and so many other things that I would have been so sad to have lost)!

 

However, I did lose all my contacts, etc.

 

and my e-mail account that is connected to A Little Fur in the Paint

 

also had everything deleted...

 

So if you don't get an answer to a question you've asked,

 

please leave me another comment, or e-mail me directly...

 

I apologize!

 

No pictures today, since I am on Katie's computer, but

 

watch for a new post very soon!

 

(The Bridges of Madison County post is still coming!)

 

Tomorrow I am going home, and tomorrow night  and

 

Saturday I will be painting faces at the

 

 Sweet Corn Festival in East Prairie, Missouri.

 

I've missed you all!

 

Thank you for "hanging in there" with me!

 

Love,