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No school for Hardin county tomorrow. I can't tell you how not surprised I was.
I've been rewatching S3 of Buffy, and had the weirdest dream this afternoon, while napping. Drusilla, and Angelus, and random people in a hospital, and just--weird.
Reading through the fic comms I belong to, I have to ask: is everyone posting stories-in-progress? Yeah, I know there are completed stories being posted, but they seem to be the exception over the rule, lately. I'm kind of tired of seeing x/? -- a lot of the stories look interesting, but some it seems never, ever get finished or go on forever and ever, and it's disheartening.
Sort of related to that, another question: if you finish a story, why post it in parts, at random (or regular, whatever) intervals? Why not post it all at once? That's almost as frustrating as the stories-in-progress, and I don't understand. Someone explain it, please?
Finally, a call for assistance, sort of. My mom recently upgraded her OS from Vista to Windows 7. She did this without telling me or my sister, so we could walk her through backing things up, etc., and now her email program has disappeared. I've spent nearly three hours total walking her through the contents of her hard drive, trying to find the damn files, but nada. She can't remember if she had Outlook or OE, either. Yeesh. Last night I helped her download and install Thunderbird, and we tried importing, but it didn't find any mail or her address book. Is there somewhere else to look that I'm not thinking of? I don't have W7 on any of my computers, and we're doing this over the phone, so I'm hampered by not being able to LOOK at the computer.
Also, she has Norton360, and uses their backup/online storage--and has apparently maxed it out. It tells her she doesn't have enough space, and that she can purchase more storage space. She's also had someone suggest an external hard drive for storage/backup. Any suggestions on this, and what might be the best option? Any files she's backing up beyond the actual computer files would be things like pictures, video clips of family stuff, and some word-document files. Any and all suggestions are welcome :)
I've been rewatching S3 of Buffy, and had the weirdest dream this afternoon, while napping. Drusilla, and Angelus, and random people in a hospital, and just--weird.
Reading through the fic comms I belong to, I have to ask: is everyone posting stories-in-progress? Yeah, I know there are completed stories being posted, but they seem to be the exception over the rule, lately. I'm kind of tired of seeing x/? -- a lot of the stories look interesting, but some it seems never, ever get finished or go on forever and ever, and it's disheartening.
Sort of related to that, another question: if you finish a story, why post it in parts, at random (or regular, whatever) intervals? Why not post it all at once? That's almost as frustrating as the stories-in-progress, and I don't understand. Someone explain it, please?
Finally, a call for assistance, sort of. My mom recently upgraded her OS from Vista to Windows 7. She did this without telling me or my sister, so we could walk her through backing things up, etc., and now her email program has disappeared. I've spent nearly three hours total walking her through the contents of her hard drive, trying to find the damn files, but nada. She can't remember if she had Outlook or OE, either. Yeesh. Last night I helped her download and install Thunderbird, and we tried importing, but it didn't find any mail or her address book. Is there somewhere else to look that I'm not thinking of? I don't have W7 on any of my computers, and we're doing this over the phone, so I'm hampered by not being able to LOOK at the computer.
Also, she has Norton360, and uses their backup/online storage--and has apparently maxed it out. It tells her she doesn't have enough space, and that she can purchase more storage space. She's also had someone suggest an external hard drive for storage/backup. Any suggestions on this, and what might be the best option? Any files she's backing up beyond the actual computer files would be things like pictures, video clips of family stuff, and some word-document files. Any and all suggestions are welcome :)