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,
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