It is now just about 5:a and I am still very much awake. My computer started lagging earlier today and for the life of me I couldn't figure it out. As things went from bad to worse over the day it became obvious to me that if I was going to save anything I would have to start the system over completely. With that decission made I began backing up all my important quilting goodies. I then moved everything possible to other drives. I really thought I would be able to fix the problem but after I spent better than 10 hours at the monitor and only little progress I knew it was time to format the drive and start all over. So I did. So at 1:a I reinstalled windows and then my hardware and then started on my software. I haven't put in but a couple of the pieces of my quilting software. I also discovered that it was going to be necessary to make a few other changes. I am giving up Netscape to go to Explorer. The new changes with Netscape and their mailer are not pleasing to me so tonight I am using Outlook Express for the first time. Hopefully I have it at least minimumally configured so I can post here. I will also be using Explorer for my browser. So both of these will be very new experiences for me. I have taken a small break here though. I rested for about an hour then came back to write this message. Would you believe I even did 3 quilt blocks while I was doing this major over haul. now to see if this message post the way I hope it should. julia
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17 years ago