Middle America's Worldview

Well, after a day off-line I finally heard word of my laptop. I still do not know what the deal was.

I received a call around 9:30 a.m. (10:30 est) from my buddy in PCLAN. "You want the good news or the bad news." Crap I thought, my harddrive is toast. "Give me the bad news." No sense in drama. "Well, brother, your laptop is not here." " OK " I said hesitantly. I was puzzled as too why but listen for the rest of the story. " But the good news is it's in King of Prussia." Seems Fedex had dropped it off at the wrong address. How the hell can that happen, I don't really know. Especially since their dropoff was across town, 30 minutes away at a totally differenent address given. Needless to say, I called the guy who had the laptop. Fortunately it was a pimpled kid with time on his hands and needed a shell of a laptop for his 250 gig harddrive. I then called Fedex explaining to them the issue and requesting they promptly repick it up and delivery it to the correct address.
Of course they will, with an apology of the inconvience. Yeah, right.

So without a laptop nor access to my precious enviroment, I returned voicemails, spoke in my scheduled meetings and attempted to act like I was working. I received word around 3:20 p.m. my time by PCLAN that he fixed the issue. When I prompted him, what was the deal. He stated he really didn't know. He had to fix/repair the boot sector. Stated it looked intact and he will be fedexing it back to me overnight. So I should receive it sometime tommorow. I will note my buddy also stated it should arrive in the morning, as he requested it to be. Unless, it lands up 3 blocks away. ha ha Very funny man.

So I don't know what the issue was, other than a failed boot sector. Thank the God in heaven I didn't lose everything. I made myself another mental note to back up my files every week. To hell with the CD's. I will just have to break them before tossing them in the trash.

I agree Mark (mental_note). We are not very fond of Citrix either. It is a bit flakey at times. But what are you going to do? If you have to use it; you have to use it.

I see Dan Rather is stepping down. As if there was a choice in that ordeal. But of course the discussion on the news__is this the end of network news? Yeah, about 5 years ago.

I think I will add the websites I have created or had part of creating on my blog. They are not fancy. Having them there will prompt me in keeping better up in them.