No End in Sight

There is still no convenient computer access on this end. My crashed laptop has been in a local repair shop for the past couple of weeks, with some valiant techs trying to salvage the data from the hard drive. My external backup drive? Toast. R's laptop? Well, working..ish, but, there's no spiffy photos on there. I think I have massive bad karma with windows-based PC's. 

The good news is we're going to the Mac side, and I anticipate having a spiffy new machine to brag about within the next couple of weeks. Despite the software learning curve, I am pretty excited about having a more reliable computer (can we say solid-state hard drive?!) AND lots more amazing jewelry to post pictures of. 

Unfortunately, several hundred photos may be lost on the old hard drive. A good friend and hobbyist photographer is retaking close up shots of jewelry, and we even managed the time for short photo shoot (with a live model!). More details and photos from that will be posted once the new Mac shows up. Woohoo! 

Computer issues (AGAIN!)

A quick note (using an old rickety laptop with a usb keyboard since the laptop is missing half its keys) to mention computer issues....again. My laptop crashed for no apparent reason, and R's laptop (same model as mine) is also broken-the power pin ripped out when he unplugged it. Awesome. Mine had that problem on three separate occasions. We are not happy campers, and plan on raising a fuss to have the laptops returned and our money refunded. We bought the laptops in April of this year, and this will be the 4th time mine is going in for "repair." It wouldn't be so bad if the customer service rep didn't try to tell us it's our fault every time. "Oh, your power pin snapped off? You'll be charged for that!"

Apparently, one is never ever ever supposed to unplug a latptop. Ever.

Crankypants.
If R's desktop (from the same company as the laptops) hadn't crashed a few months back, this would be slightly less of a crummy situation. He's only had the desktop for a couple of years, and it's DOA. Guess who we're never buying computers from again? These guys!

If only MAC's weren't so expensive, and could run our sizeable collection of games & software without needing to shell out even more $ for software compatibility programs.

Fortunately, I have a smart phone and can at least access email (though, sadly, not Etsy at the moment) so I can keep up with any sales and mail out packages quickly. Just no fancy pants printed invoices at the moment. Grumble!