EEEEEEeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr PRRKKKKSSSSHHH!

Yep, it finally did it. It Crashed. I should say I was expecting it and was prepared. I should be able to say that while I was expecting it, I saved everything to an external drive or backed up at least every week or even every month. That would be a big NO. The last time we backed up...according to the many CDs we have stacked up with dates and files written all over them...was September 2006. After the cd burner called it quits around that time, we just stopped backing up. Well, not exactly. We bought a flash drive and tried saving everything to that, not knowing that we had WAY more than just 1 G worth of information on it. So we only saved 1 G worth of stuff and planned on getting another 2 G at some point. And guess what 1 G we have saved? Yep, that's right, the same stuff we have on the CDs. Mostly we lost pictures, unhappily enough. I'm sad to have a whole year in pictures just disappear. The computer will be fine. We just have to find the original discs (yes, after 5 1/2 years we still have them...somewhere) and reload everything. Personally I just think it was jealous of the laptop sitting next to it. I finally plugged in the laptop and set it up so we could use it for whatever came to us and a couple hours later the computer started acting up. Or maybe it was trying to show off and didn't realize that it had been outdated 5 years ago. Well, I guess they just don't make 'em like they used to.