Okay.
First of all, I apologize for not posting more often.  I’m gonna try to remedy that. :-?
Secondly, as I said in my last posting, I am now running Linux on the server (to which I am new).  Something went awry with the hardware and I had to rebuild my server (AGAIN!).  I had just gotten [...]

WOW!
Things have really been crazy!
Kathi’s laptop crashed.  Lost the hard drive—and ALL of our pictures (including our Hawaii vacation pictures).  I had begun to back them up, but I didn’t want to back up the whole directory, so I was “picking and choosing” the directories to backup.  Hawaii was the next backup I had planned [...]

I DID IT!
I actually recovered my lost data for this blog!
YEA!!!!!!

BOY!  Has this been a pain!
I upgraded to a new, larger hard drive and transferred the server to the new drive.
Unfortunately, when I backed up my database, the restore didn’t work.  I’ve been trying to recover the data ever since.
Rebuilding the server was pretty quick this time.  I think I’ve got the hang of that [...]

Early Sunday morning (October 7, 2006) a fleeing driver hit the power pole at the end of our cross street and knocked out the transformer that fed our area.  This resulted in a MAJOR power spike back up the lines that “blew out” Kathi’s printer and our server.
We had to buy Kathi a new printer [...]