Is My Computer Dying???

I've been having a couple of computer issues in the last week or so. Firefox crashes often... it never did before... and my computer just restarts itself all of a sudden for no apparent reason. Adrian said it sounded like a hardware issue and that my computer is probably about to crash. It's pretty old... about 7 years now. Then a couple of days ago my virus software found a bug... a pretty small one called TR/Crypt.ZPACK.Gen.... Avira got rid of it within a couple of minutes so I thought that was my issue. Nope.... computer restarted itself again today. So I've spent the day backing up my files... copying some to Adrian's computer and some to my extra lil storage drive that he put in mine awhile back. I have 100's of rare Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac mp3's (concerts and demos).... all my pics of Steffie and the Grandbabies... plus all of my business files... none of which I want to even think about losing. So hopefully now they are all copied in safe places. I was also able to figure out how to save my e-mail files on Incredimail.... and my bookmarks on Firefox... so if my poor old computer does crash everything should be safe and transferable when I'm able to get a new computer.

But then I read on another blog that Blogger and Firefox are having issues... and other people are having the Firefox crash issue due to that. So that makes me feel better about the stability of my computer. But I don't know if the restarting on it's own is connected to that..... anyone know??? Either way... the back-up needed doing. I hope my computer doesn't die :( .... I'm quite attached to her....

A Lil Enchanted,
~LaShan~

Computer Issues

I seem to be having some computer issues. Yesterday Entrecard sent out a notice that their toolbar had been updated to work with the new version of Firefox so I upgraded both and have been having issues ever since. It's really strange though... yesterday I was having trouble getting Google and Blogspot blogs to pull up but other web sites worked fine and this was happening on Adrian's computer as well... so we assumed it was a Google issue since both are Google apps.

But this morning I'm still having a lil trouble with that... though it seems to be a lil better... at least I could log in... and hopefully this posting will go through.. what I spent time working on last night didn't save or post :( . My e-mail is also not working this morning.... don't know if it's a G-mail issue or Incredimail.... it appears to be G-mail and that would be consistent with the Google issue.


Anyone else having problems with Google apps?? I don't know how much EC dropping I'll get done today if this continues... I didn't get to finish yesterday either... but I'll keep trying.

A Lil Enchanted,
~LaShan~

Random Tuesday Thoughts

Well at least I got the right day this time... right??!! Casey from Half As Good As You is guest hosting RTT this week since Keely from The Un Mom is on vacation.... and Casey says we're supposed to be naked for this.... do you really think she's telling us the truth???? Or do you think she just really wants to see if we'll do it??? Well since it's soooo hot down here in the south right now.... what's the harm right???

So far neither the bank nor Cricket want to refund my $34 INF fee for the double payment taken from my account last week that was Cricket's fault.... so I'm not a happy camper. Maybe if I had gone to the bank naked to make my request.... naaahhh... they would have just thrown clothes at me.

The last few weeks have been insane... not for any particular reason... I just can't seem to get the things done that I need to get done... but I already said that didn't I... did you know that some people clean their house completely naked????

Jodi... just out of curiosity I opened up IE and went to my blog... and sure enough not only was my EC missing.... so was my Followers list. It seemed to be fine on the other blogs I checked to see if theirs were working... so I wonder what's up with my blog and Internet Explorer. If anyone knows what the problem is please let me know. I use Firefox 99.9% of the time. Thanks for visiting me Jodi... even if ya can't drop.... my blog is naked too....

More blog stuff... I keep seeing people talk about page rank on their blogs... how do find your page rank??..... I haven't got a clue. And someone else was talking about what people are searching for that brings them to your blog... I don't know how to find that either.... it would be interesting to know though. And how do people get all of these products to review and giveaway?? That would be a lot of fun! Maybe if they think I'm naked they'll send me clothes to review... I prefer black...

Now here's a question for you.... If you .... go to your Mother's house... or your friend's house.... or your friend's Mother's house..... etc.... and you see a sign nicely taped to the top of her computer monitor that says
"Do Not Even Think About Using This Computer!"
Do you automatically assume that you are exempt from this and sit down and start surfing and typing anyway??? Just wondering... maybe if I change the sign to "Must Be Naked To Use This Computer... No Exceptions!" they will have second thoughts. But then again maybe not... and I really don't some people's naked butts in my chair... ya know!!

I was up until 4:30 am the last 3 nights watching the first season of True Blood... I had heard a lot about the show but since I don't get HBO I haven't been able to watch it. A friend let me borrow the first season the other night and it is awesome! So I watched all 12 episodes in 3 nights.... now I can't watch the second season which is on now :( .... what's a girl to do??? I don't want to wait a year to see what's going on... and needless to say... I'm need some sleep... oh... and there was a lot of nakedness on that show!!! No Kidding!!

A Lil Enchanted,
~LaShan~

Some Random Thoughts For Thursday

Well since I missed Random Tuesday Thoughts and the last couple of Friday Frustrations I thought I would just do some random Thursday thoughts for today.... mainly since I've been so busy and haven't had a chance to post a lot of personal happenings....

So let's go with yesterday... Adrian wanted me to update my Mozilla Firefox to the new version 3.5... so I did... can you say mistake??? If you're using Firefox (which I highly recommend) and the EC Toolbar (which I also highly recommend if you do EC)..... DO NOT upgrade because the EC Toolbar does not work with Mozilla Firefox 3.5. So I had to go back and reinstall the older version of Firefox.... can you say pain in the butt?! Ok... so I'm all fixed back now.... but this was in the middle of rushing around to get my EC drops in... which I did not make the 300... again... it's been a real struggle this past week to get them all in... so I apologize to all my usuals and those who dropped on my EC if I didn't drop on you this past week.

I think that Mercury thinks it is retrograde.... if you notice on my right sidebar I added the dates of this year's Mercury retrogrades so it will be easier to know in advance when this dreaded event occurs. Why do I think Mercury thinks it is retrograde?.... because several things have happened that usually happen when Mercury is retrograde (communication and transportation issues)..... Sarah even asked me if Mercury was retrograde... so it's not just me!
Yesterday's issue with Firefox was one... but also on Monday Adrian got his pay stub (his check is direct deposit to the bank).... he did not get paid for the week he was in Nashville... so they have to fix the mistake (hopefully today). This was his 4th paycheck from this new company and out of the 4 this is the 2nd time they messed up his paycheck..... grrrr.
Also on Monday.... I went online to pay our Cricket phone bill... I clicked submit and got an error notice... so I immediately checked my bank account to see if the payment went through... it did.... TWICE... I only had enough money in my account to pay one payment which meant that I would be charged an overdraft fee. I immediately caledl Cricket... they say I have to call my bank even though it was Cricket's mistake... not my bank's. So I call my bank and they say one payment should drop off over night. It didn't... so I call them back yesterday and they say I have to call Cricket to get the payment refunded and that they will not remove the overdraft fee even though it was not my fault. I don't know about you... but $34 is a lot to me and I sure could use it for something other than donating it to my bank! So Cricket agrees to credit my account for the overpayment and the overdraft fee... I really don't think they will credit the $34... but we'll see.... it will take a couple of days is what they say. So I'm still dealing with both messes.
My computer was making strange noises the other day.... it's old... about 5 or 6 years old now... so I'm worried about how much longer it's going to last. We replaced the power supply about a year ago.... so we thought the fan was going the other day... but it seems to be fine for now and the noise stopped. So cross your fingers and toes that it holds out at least another year... I can't afford a new one and if it craps out I'm just SOL. Not to mention all of my files that are on here that I will lose. I've got to figure out how to save my bookmarks and passwords and my saved e-mails to my storage drive so they can be transferred to another computer at some point.

And that's all of the thinking I can do for now.... I'm sure I had other thoughts that I wanted to put here... but they just flew out the window of my brain.... gotta get showered... today is library day again.... already.... and for the record... Mercury is not retrograde.... so what's up????

A Lil Enchanted,
~LaShan~