Time Out

it was a mini black out that caused my computer to finally give up the ghost.
I unplugged all the many, many cables and what-nots dangling from behind the computer and took it to the folks who know these things and who told me, some days later, that it would be costly to fix and even then I would most likely still have the same slow and pitiful performance.
However, they said, add to the price for the fix and we can furnish you with a reconstituted, more powerful computer.
Not much of a choice.
I agreed to the "new" computer.
All this took about a week, leaving me without access to the world and a lot of time on my hands, time I normally would have spent reading ghastly news or writing emails.
So I decided to start to scrape the old paint off the house in preparation for a paint job.
And I scraped and sweated and got dust in my eyes and aches in my back from standing on a ladder whilst stretching to reach nearly unreachable places.
Till the day I could pick up my "new" computer and plug all the cables back in and say a prayer and press the start button and.........it worked.
I am back.
I have read the news, I have read my emails, I have deleted a bunch of stuff and somehow the paint scraping has taken a decidedly low priority.
Very low.