I had a few bad moments this morning. Everything was fine at first, made cofee but didn't have any half&half but even half asleep I figured that one out. No problem...I just used milk. The coffee's perking, the dishwasher I forgot to turn on last night is now whooshing away in the background and my load of whites in the washer is just beginning to agitate. It all sounds good so far, right? Peaceful, laid-back, a nice, relaxing morning. Wrong. There was nothing even remotely zen-like in the next few moments. I sat down to write my blog, moved my mouse to wake up my monitor and - nothing. Black screen. The hard drive wouldn't turn on no matter how many times I pushed that blasted button. So I crawled under the computer nook, pulled out the hard drive and started wiggling cords to check connections. Nope, nothing was loose so I pushed it back under the shelf. Got back up and tried turning on my monitor (the light was yellow, not green). Nothing. Went through the whole process again with the same results. Absolutely not a dad-blasted thing! My computer's dead! OK, normally this wouldn't have bothered me this much but on Halloween???? Tonight is the start of NaNoWriMo! I need my computer and I have absolutely no money to get this one repaired much less ha-ha-ha buy a new one. It's NaNo time, I can't quit before I even start so did it again just to make sure it was really as dead as it looked. Once again I ripped out cords but this time practiced some words I haven't used since I was in the Navy! Still nothing. What do I do? Take a big gulp of rapidly cooling coffee and call Debe. No "Hello, Good Morning, Did I wake you." I just blurted out what was going on and told her it was either call her or scream like crazy and scare all my neighbors. She made a good suggestion for a work around and has offered the loan of her husband's lap top from time to time if I need it. Now that, dear readers, is a wonderful friend! So I told her I'd try one more time, which I did. I crawled back under the computer nook, pulled out the hard drive (should I be saying PC? Not sure about that), pulled out all the cords and plugged them back in again, crawled back out, sat down and pushed the 'On' button. Voila!!!! I'm back up and running. You know, I think it was the 'sailor talk' that did it.
I have to tell you, facing the very real possiblity of not having a computer really scared me this morning. My very first thought was "NO! I want to do NaNo." That's when I knew how important this year's NaNo competition is to me. I owned it this morning, this feeling of preparing for battle, for fighting off my personal and PC demons to reach my goal. There have been a lot of motivational songs running around in my brain this past week and this morning's was the theme song from "Rocky."
So, uppercut to you, little NaNo Gremlin. I may sweat blood and tears during this competition but I won't fall. I bow before no one! Here's a one-two punch and....the Gremlin's down for the count!!!!! Cathy Wins!!!!!!
I have to tell you, facing the very real possiblity of not having a computer really scared me this morning. My very first thought was "NO! I want to do NaNo." That's when I knew how important this year's NaNo competition is to me. I owned it this morning, this feeling of preparing for battle, for fighting off my personal and PC demons to reach my goal. There have been a lot of motivational songs running around in my brain this past week and this morning's was the theme song from "Rocky."
So, uppercut to you, little NaNo Gremlin. I may sweat blood and tears during this competition but I won't fall. I bow before no one! Here's a one-two punch and....the Gremlin's down for the count!!!!! Cathy Wins!!!!!!
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