Beautiful outside, but this is one of those days...
- Late last night I got a message that a computer at Lakeside Christian Church let its smoke escape and would probably need attention today. The great thing about that is that I was at Lakeside all day yesterday. Today I'm at the NACC all day.
- This morning I got up in time to go to the Y to do my workout only
to discover that I forgot to bring my work clothes. Back to the house.
- This morning after I walked Darlene through using a different computer (hoping the data she needed was on the shared drive like she thought it was) I walked into the NACC to learn that one of the computers here wasn't seeing the network.
- While I'm troubleshooting that problem (appears to be a wiring problem) my wife called to tell me that the van had let its smoke escape (there is a pattern emerging).
- While I'm on my way to pick up my stranded family I get another call from Lakeside, one of their computers isn't connecting to the network. During that call I get a hint that the plan for Darlene to use another computer might not be working out so great.
- After gallantly rescuing my family and dropping them off at home I got the call confirming my fears about Darlene's setup. The data is on her hard drive and isn't backed up. I told her to grab the fire extinguisher (just kidding), fire up the PC (no pun intended) and see if it will boot and run long enough to get her data.
- Now I'm back at the NACC with a USB wireless adapter temporarily resurrect the PC here and I've learned that the Lakeside computer isn't going to startup.
Wow - we had an electrical storm last month, I helped our IT guy by using my personal USB IDE drve cables to pull data - always tense. And I still don't back-up as often as I need to :(