Computer woes

Oh, what is with the computer issues I've had this year??!  First, Paul bought me a new refurbished netbook for Mother's Day.  The old one was slow and many years old (a hand-me-down from my uncle to my mom to me).  The new one is the same maker (Acer), and after the first week, the hard drive crashed!  Took a complete dump.  Thankfully, it was under warranty so I sent it back and they reinstalled what it had on it originally. 

A month later, my desktop, a spiffy 2.5 year old doozy that worked like a charm, also bit the dust.  The motherboard was the problem on that one, and sadly it was no longer under warranty.  Paul thought it might be one simple thing, but when he took it to Tiger Direct, they told him it was D-E-A-D dead as a door knob.  He, being the amazing husband he is, bought me a new one right there in their store. 

Two days ago, I made a HUGE error in clicking on something I shouldn't have (which I'm smart enough to know not to do!).  Yesterday, I attempted to turn on the computer, and it was dead.  I was OUT OF MY MIND pissed.  I mean, how many times can this really happen to me?  After a lot of hours spent trying to restore, save, backup....we finally had to reinstall Windows, but thankfully, by some miracle from somewhere, everything was backed up and came back--I was terrified of losing my photos from this past year, which were not backed up (but are now!!), but they're all on there.  The only thing that didn't transfer was Microsoft Office, which sucks, but my photos are intact.  Crisis averted.  *whew*

In other news, Paul and I met today with our coordinator for Jackson's therapies and a representative from the preschool in town where he'll attend.  Jackson is currently in speech, developmental, and (soon-to-be) occupational, but he only receives these services until he turns 3.  Literally, up to that day and not a minute after.  Well, some of them he might be able to continue at the preschool, specifically speech which is our main area of concern.  He'll have an evaluation in November, followed by a meeting for a decision on whether or not he'll need to continue.  My guess is, he'll be recommended for speech and will qualify for their walk-in speech clinic, which would basically be once a week for about 30-45 minutes.  Not much time, but I'll take whatever they throw my way.

That's all for now!  Happy Fall!  (is it really happy??!)