"Say it ain't so, Joe..."

OK, I won't.

I'll say, "Say it ain't so, Bob!"

Ah, 'tis.

As of 5:20pm today, Sunday December 31 in the year of our Lord 2006, my Sony computer tower was sitting in a very reputable repair shop undergoing bench testing to troubleshoot my 'issues'...

All I was going to do was beef up the video card in my 4-year old tower, which necessitated the installation of a 550 watt power supply (twice the original one)...installed without too much of a problem...worked great, too...


Ever heard the expression of "let a sleeping dog lie"? Well, I was heading in this direction, anyway, of upgrading my video/audio processing program to Pinnacle 10.5 Media Suite...with each of the 4 discs I put in they prompted me asking if I wanted to reboot to the new material then and there...but I knew I could do it all at once...including the upgrade to the 3-D radar rendering I spoke of earlier....

And when I did a restart...*boom*...*kabamm*...*blurp*... *diiiiiiiiiiingzleeeeeeeep*...something somewhere went terribly wrong and awry. Hard drive? Motherboard? Software? Just the hardware? Both hard and software? That is where I am at the moment. Dead in the water without my 'puter, awaiting further tests Monday morning.

So the saga continues. The Gorgon Sisters were not aware of their half-siblings, which I have now, unfortunately, brought to life. I will most certainly keep you updated on my less-than frolicking fun here on the last day of 2006...wheee. Feel the excitement....!

Thanks for your support...but I don't think I'll be posting again until sometime next year....