I must be "BATTY"

I did say my blogging is the the "ramblings of a crazy lady ".....

I lost my computer bookmarks this week. I turned on the computer one morning and "bam", they were gone; my organized list of things on the internet that I could access in an easy click - all gone !!

I was steamed. I had to start to rebuild.... I had so many bookmarks.... I couldn't even begin to remember all I had.... and the organization.... *sheesh*

I was mad at Google as I was sure it was their fault; some upgrade that had installed that caused them to all disappear.

Then I thought that it was absolutely nuts that I would be so upset about loosing my bookmarks.

Hello reality check !!

Its not like loosing a job or a family member. Time to reassess my whole relationship with this internet thing.

But it was also really bothering me - were the heck did they all go ? Its not like they vanished into thin air. They had to be somewhere in the memory of this poor old laptop.

So yesterday I looked; I looked in all the files I though they might be hiding in and I did searches. I went to Microsoft's troubleshooting page. I even did a system restore. Nada.

Then blinding brilliance (more like a serendipitous thought), I thought "Its not Google, its my browser". Thats when I got lucky. Long story short, I found my darlings and set about to restore them all.

Them all......

800 freaking bookmarks !!!

No time to cull or organize, as I wanted to restore them before the browser did its daily backup and I lost them forever. But there were moments that I thought "I have THAT - what ever for ?" or "I DID bookmark this - I thought I hadn't"

And to be sure that I don't loose these, again, I have created a have a file that holds a backup copy; a file I can easily find if my browser decides it wants to eat my favorites again.

But the fun has just started. I now have to re-organize them. This can wait 'til I am back in the Fall.

Yup - I do have to reassess my relationship with the internet.

Ok - time to publish this blog and go do something useful. Fidel's sweater deadline is looming. And poor darling, I don't want him to freeze when he makes his way up to this frigid wasteland this winter.

Its a holiday here tomorrow, but as I work in notParadise (its not a holiday there) its a workday. Most will be taking the day off as they live here in Paradise. So it will be quiet. I have a ton of ergonomic assessment reports that I have to process - I want to get the equipment ordered before my holidays and tomorrow will be a nice quiet day to do just that.