I'd almost forgotten I'd made this little video clip of Cala - she had just turned 4 weeks old when this was taken - it's hard to believe that was five weeks ago already! She even smiled on cue!

Tubeless!!

My tubes are missing!!  And, no I haven't had a medical procedure - 'tubes' are the elements used when making tags in Paint Shop Pro, i.e. all my Gorjuss girls and all the scrapkit tubes, sob!  I've got my computer back, but the eejits at the shop forgot to reload my documents as a backup, which means yet another trip back to the shop with computer!!  Apparently, the backup they made was nearly 38gb, compared to an average backup of around 10gb on 'normal' PC's (I guess that makes me 'abnormal!).  It means I will have to take my computer back yet again as the files are too big to put on a disk.  I had a wee bit of a ding-dong with the guy in the shop as he tried to imply it was my fault the backup wasn't put back on as I hadn't asked for it when I returned it the 2nd time!  I pointed out to him that the back up had NEVER been put on even though it clearly states on the job sheet 'backup documents and reload' - I also pointed out that I paid for this service when I picked the machine up the 1st time!  Fortunately, I had copied a lot of files to my external hard drive before I handed them the computer the 1st time round, but all that said, I am still missing at least half of my graphics, all my fonts, and all my plugins.  It's just so frustrating as I know they won't do the job with any urgency and once again I will be resigned to using Luke's laptop in the interim.  Ok, rant over!

Update on sick PC!

Had a missed call from the PC shop yesterday so made a quick dash down there in the hope that it might now be fixed and ready to pick up - more fool me!  Apparently, my graphics card is 'mashed' beyond repair; something they didn't pick up on whilst running the 'health check' - consequently, I've had to buy a new one and (hopefully) it will be installed today.  I had my suspicions that it was more than a Windows software problem, which is exactly what I told them when I returned the PC last week - pity they didn't believe me.
Anyhoo, having already spent a small fortune just having Windows XP reloaded, I'm praying that the final bill isn't extortionate (some hope!) and I'll be able to afford to collect my battered PC sometime today - will keep you posted.

Not a happy (Easter) bunny!

As the title suggests, I am far from happy!  Picked up my desktop from the shop yesterday and was told all was fixed and backups made of my documents - not only are my documents nowhere to be found, but my graphics card seems to have gone AWOL and after updating a couple of things, i.e. Internet Explorer and AOL, the damned thing is freezing again on the desktop screen!!   I tried rebooting 3 or 4 times, and it completely freezes every time - so much for the 'health check' they alledged to have performed.  Now, with the Easter weekend, it will be Tuesday at the earliest before I can return it to the shop, and it's anyone's guess what/who they will blame for the problems this time.  Consequently, I am still unable to open my folder in Sensual Sigs or begin taking requests until I can access my PC again, aagggghhhh!

My beautiful Cala Nicole Hodges