This is here because it is here.

My wife does various crafts.  She has made Beaded things, Rock Animals, Rock Houses & Temari.  The rock animals and houses are rocks painted to look like those things.  They really are rocks and tend to be heavy. 

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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Added an original fiction page today. I also made a slight adjustment that might not be noticable depending on your screen resolution. Hopefully, I didn't mess things up for you, the reader of this stuff.

I probably won't edit the older pages much. Besides, I'm still learning how to do these website/HTML thingies so bear with me here. I might keep things the way they are on the older pages so I can see how things have developed over time as I slowly learn more about how all this works.

I've been offline!  I hate being offline.  I especially hate having a computer that refuses to work and I have to reinstall everything from scratch because I made a mistake in choosing a backup device!

Well, okay.  Maybe I shouldn't blame my backup device, (an OnStream Digital Drive), for all of my troubles.  The instructions never said that I couldn't use it to back up my entire system and then restore the entire system later.  How was I supposed to know that when Windows is running that some of the little programs that Windows likes to run couldn't even be copied?  (And I'm not talking about a few either.)  (I suppose I should have realized you can't restore a system over a running system too.  Now that was dumb!)

It would have been nice if the people at OnStream would thought about us single system users and would have included a DOS version of their software so that we could backup the entirety of our Windows operating systems.

It would have been even nicer if I would have done more research on the OnStream Digital Drive in the first place.  I would not have purchased it if I knew then, what I know now.  I still don't have everything re-installed.  I might have to return this notebook of mine back to the factory condition . . . yet again, and start over. 

We'll see.

While I'm considering other backup options, I must ask you, what are you doing for your backup?  Are you backing up?  When I asked people who should know better, that question, many of them said that they don't back up.  Even people, (most of whom are computer techs), don't backup.  Based on my past few experiences with lost data, lost time and frustration, that's frightening to me. 

At least one person, who works at a computer place you might have heard of, CDW, said that he doesn't backup his computer right now, but he will start soon. 
 

I...uhm...don't think I'm ready for email yet.    ;-)