A Bummer of a Day
Yesterday, Sunday, August 21. What a bummer of a day.

We have been in Florida with my father-in-law and had tickets to return to Minnesota yesterday. Being "loyal" Minnesotans our tickets were on Northwest Airlines. But, hey, all signs said everything was okay even with the strike.

On most flights but ours, I guess.

When we got to the airport we are told that the flight is "delayed" and will leave about 45 minutes late at 2:30. Next it says 3:05 and then 3:30 and finally 4:05. We started boarding at 4:05 and got back home around 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 hours late. Okay. That's bad enough but can be coped with. Especially with trusty laptop, airport Wi-Fi and a couple computer games.

On most days but this one.

The computer, which had worked just fine a few hours earlier at the motel does nothing. Just looks at me. Doesn't smile, wink, or give me an icon. The hard drive doesn't do a thing. I try all the options I knew how and nada.

A call to tech support gave me even less hope. They did what I had done with a few additions. Still nothing. No disk movement, no nothing still.

Is it backed up? Well, the one MOST IMPORTANT FILE (read: the Quicken backup) is on a jump drive (Amen!). But all my pictures, and especially the pictures of the wedding last month, are on the hard drive. I can live without most everything else on the disk but the pictures are important. (They are in drive D:, one of the two segments on the disk. It boots from drive C:. Am I just hoping against hope, dreaming the impossible dream?)

So, I sit here on my desktop writing this. The laptop is in the hands of a repair shop. All I ask is that I can get those wedding pictures. Will there be more news tomorrow? Maybe Wednesday or Thursday? I sure hope so- and it better be good news!

Please!