Happy new year... Recovering from the Blue Screen of Death

Well its been a scary last couple days.. And something that will make me back up my files on my computer. . My laptop started acting all hinky, shutting down on its own, weird error messages. Eventually I saw it.. the blue screen of death.. I knew this was not good from experience at work.. so I panickly started burning my pics and anything important so if I had to do the unthinkable.. reload windows , I wouldn't lose everything. So I sit up on Friday nite till midnight burning things.. let me tell you its painful when it takes 5 mins for a window to open.. well I got everything except my music backed up.. Music would have taken 2 days I am sure.. So Saturday morning I am ready to reload windows.. well fuck if the computer doesn't even log in anymore.. even putting the recovery disk didn't work.. Then I got this ominious message '' blah blah disk failure is iminent.. '' well I search the internet (thank god I had my work laptop at home) and find out that my harddrive is likely dead.. lovely.. so a little more searching and i find out how to replace it.. luckly its just on the bottom of my laptop covered by a plate and I don't have to open up my computer. Then I call london drugs to see if they carry them and they did.. and way cheaper than the HP website, they wanted 360 bucks for a 60 gb drive like I had, london drugs had a 120 gb for 165$.. no brainer.. So off I run and pick it up

Get home and start the operation.. put it in refasten all the microscopic screws.. and fuck.. the computer doesn't detect a hard drive.. so back to the computer and try again.. there was a little plastic thing on the needle things on my old drive. so I took that off and put it on my new drive and voila!! I have a function computer.. I pop in the windows recovery cd and things worked finally.. I was so friggin relieved..

Everything is back to normal with one exception.. I can't get my bloody wireless router to recognize my computer.. Had a hellava time when I first bought it .. don't know what I did then , it just finally worked.. this time no luck yet.. So I am tied to my computer room as I type this.. Oh well I guess there are worse things.. like 'Disk failure is iminent'' I will figure it out eventually

Rochelle is loving her job as a phone installer. Its nice seeing her come home smiling and excited about what she did that day. She is going to be really good at it I think.

Reno update. Well we have pretty much finished tiling the slate. Just have 4 or 5 cut tiles left and the hole for the toilet. I looks really good, weird that it makes the room seem larger.. I won't post more pics of that till we have it grouted.

Also had some success with the shower lights. I got them wired and switched and they work!! My dad and I had a little fight b/c he didn't agree with how I was going to wire the light switch.. We had a bunch of drama with a switch that we ran in the suite on the 23rd. my brother inlaw had to finish it b/c it wasn't right, and my dad wanted to do the same thing with this light.. Well I don't know much about electrical, but if it didn't work in the suite, I was pretty sure it wasn't going to work in the shower. So Off I went to look on the internet again and found the directions along with pics of how to do it properly. Why is it that men can't admit they don't know something and just look at some instructions?? Don't know. Anyways dad went off to pic up Mary from the mall and I set out on wiring the lights.. Slowly and methodically. Well here is the result.

I am pretty impressed with my self. Dad was too, he said he learned something, but that he still didn't understand how it worked.. oh well I have light!!

I am also ready to run the plumbing. I am going with Pex pipe. Its plastic pipe that will be way easier to run through the studs, and no sautering required, except where the lines will feed off the main water line.

Haven't started that yet wanted to get the floor in first. Man this project is a little more challenging that I first anticipated.. worse than the kitchen if you can believe it. there is so much more you have to consider when you are running new plumbing and electrical.. Oh well. It may take a year to complete, but let me tell you the first hot shower with the body sprays going will make it all worth it..

M