My computer crashed today. I think it’s gone.

I wish I could say that I diligently backed up everything, especially my Outlook and my Word documents. I didn’t. I never believed it could happen to me.

The only thing that’s helping me is that I knew it was dying, so I went out today and bought a new laptop.

Suffering from buyer’s remorse, I knew I had to research laptops and see if I could find a better price. I came home to start searching the Net. Only to find that my old computer had taken its last breath. Guess it was waiting until I bought a new one?

Of course, I’ll try to resuscitate it. It’s been a faithful companion for a while now, and it has much to teach me (in the form of old files I need to recover). I’ll locate a recovery disk somewhere, and give it a go. It’s supposed to be my daughter’s…so she’ll stop throwing tantrums whenever she wants my laptop. Now she can have her own (I hope).

Happier news: I got Vista! I’ll let you know what I think about it later. And I got a laptop with the touchpad…I wondered why the screen kept scrolling up and down on its own. I may not like this thing, but I have a few days to decide. My hand likes to rest on the area where the touchpad is. Also, the keys require a bit more pressure than my old laptop. My poor hands are getting tired. Or maybe the keys are spaced differently…closer together. Can they do that? Shouldn’t keyboards all be the same? For someone who loves to type, and who types for a living, this may be a very bad thing.

I also got Office 2007 and Quickbooks. Another new adventure! I’ll be busy this week figuring out the new system, trying to recover the old, and working on new projects.

Oh, and I’ll be backing up regularly! I wonder what’s the best method…saving files onto a flash drive, or getting a zip drive?