Zannee’s Blog at BargainsLA.com

I am up to my eyeballs in end of school year hoopla. Parties, friends kids promotions, my daughters promotion, graduation ceremonies all across town Girls Scout Awards, end of year plays and performances, the list of events seems to be endless. Too much to do, in too little time. I think I will ignore most of it.

On top of chaos from the end of year hoopla, our home office has been besieged with a technology melt down. My brand new Mac Mini died…. Really. Can you believe it?  Apparently it was a hard drive failure. Mac was pretty good about it. When we took it in they fired it up looked at the screen and the tech said, “Yep you need a new computer”. It was all of 3 weeks old. I still have to wait several days for a new one. I am getting additional RAM installed.

But I had just got all my files and work transferred from the Dell to the Mac and it’s systems up and running when it went kaput. Several articles have been lost, leads, emails, and contact names. But thankfully, it was only a couple of week’s worth of information. When the Mac died it was enough for “the kid” to hear my extensive vocabulary of profanity. I had ceased cussing when I became a parent. But this brought all that back.

Thankfully we had kept the 8-year old dell. It is still working. My daughter’s 5-year old Sony laptop is still working. Our 1-year old IMac is still working. Our 3 year old HP laptop is still working and our contact files are backed up in our Blackberry’s. WE thought we were okay.

But then….
My husbands 6 month old Blackberry Curve died that same day too. That company was pretty good about replacement too. The problems it created are a major hassle for us. But my solid as a rock web dude handled it all in stride, maintaining his cool through the technology crisis… That is until our HP laptop screen went black and also failed to operate. Did I mention it was on the same day as the other two technology failures? This pushed him over the edge and “the kid” also heard his extensive vocabulary of profanity.

Thankfully we got the HP working again. It’s the main computer we use to send out Bargain Alerts and our weekly e-Newsletter. But we cannot close the lid or we will lose the screen again. Eventually the HP will go into the shop for repair.

I guess my daughters 6th grade promotion present has been learning Mom and Dad know how to cuss and do so in stressful situations. Not my idea of an ideal promotion present. What a week.