When the laptop dies suddenly, life comes to a stop followed by a panic. We experienced this live last Wednesday at about five in the morning. It’s really not the best way to start one’s day. Mom has disliked the HP laptop since day one but it was a gift to her, so she figured she would just live with it. She gets a new laptop about every three years but when it passed, it was only a year and a half old. It wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t Mom’s life but it is. She has her own business and works every day on her laptop, then there are the blog/social media things, photo editing, and dog sports items since she is on a committee for nose work trials. Life shuts down without the laptop.
Thankfully, Mom keeps things backed up in the cloud and on an external drive so data isn’t lost. She keeps her previous laptop just in case she ever needs anything from it. It is a good thing as she had to work from it the first day. That one is out of date, doesn’t work with the second monitor, was simply a nightmare to try to use for her work.
The week was slower with the Easter holiday, thank dog! She decided first thing that she needed a new laptop so she was at the store when it opened and found what she wanted and was out in about ten minutes. She will never get another HP, that is for sure! Setting it up was another challenge but she worked on it all day along with trying to do her job. The old one simply went black and there was no way to turn it back on or anything, it was totally dead. Mom would never trust it again which is why she won’t even attempt to have it fixed.
Thursday was a bit better trying to use the new laptop but issues kept popping up. Mom realized the things she had not remembered to install, and there was no time for blogging of any kind. If you follow us on Facebook, we did post that we were forced to take a short break. By the end of the day Friday things were in pretty good shape on the new laptop. Mom likes it a lot. She got an LG for the first time. We have our photo editing software installed and are “back in business”. When a laptop dies unexpectedly, even if you think you are prepared with a spare computer and everything backed up, it is still a major problem if you need your laptop for work.
We are happy to be back and sorry we disappeared but anything with us and the blog was not a priority those first couple days.
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