Some days I really hate computers!! My office computer has been on the fritz for several weeks and I finally registered a complaint with the IT dept the first week of January. When our IT rep came in to review the issues with my computer, I was told that I would have to wait in line as there were several other computers ahead of me due for major maintenance, including the President's computer. (Interesting, we just bought him a new one a couple of months ago! Hmmm...) On February 1st, I moved to a new office location and somewhere in the move and getting set-up again the computer actually crashed! (so much for being at the bottom of the list!) I once again raised the complaint with our IT dept. This time I was told I would still have to wait because our IT rep was doing a complete overview of our computer needs and the review wouldn't be completed for a couple of weeks. So basically for the last 3 weeks I have been lugging my laptop computer back and forth between home and the office. This hasn't been too much of a problem until this week. Sometime between last Friday and yesterdat, the sound went out in my computer as well as the internal wireless card. I again registered a complaint with the IT dept, luckily our rep was scheduled to be on site today. After working on the darn machine for 1 hour, he came to the same conclusion both Matthew and I had the previous night, the wireless card went bad as did the speakers and/or sound card. Thus the cost to continue to fix it would cost more that buying a new one. So as it stands now, I will be getting a new desktop that is suppose to arrive and be set-up this Friday and a new laptop has been ordered for me and should be here in a couple of weeks. Now I have to prep for a new computer, which means transfering all my files and personal programs onto an external hard drive so that I can install on the new laptop when it arrives. This takes quite a bit a time, especially when you weren't expecting to have to do it!
I have to wonder what exactly did we do before computers came into the workplace and our lives? There is not a single task that I do now with my new job that can be done without the computer. Hmmm...
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TRAGEDY!!! What about the newly acquired digital scrapbooking? Let me know if you have any trouble getting it all on the new lap top. What a shame, we shall have to have another scrapbooking day so I can reinstall for you....
YES, it is a tragedy! I believe I saved and transferred as many of the files on my external hard drive, however we will have to see how well they load up when the new laptop arrives! But I would never say "NO" to another scrapbooking day!!!!
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