I'm back

Now that was a marathon of madness at the worst possible time.  As I said, my computer crashed and burned after that March Windows 11 update.  I guess Windows is the ultimate argument against monopolies, because most of the people I've talked to agree it's a subpar system, but what are you going to do?  You have one other choice.  So Windows it is. 

After weeks of fighting and end runs, countless hours trying to fix it, and having enough techs access my PC trying to figure things out that we could start our own football franchise, it was concluded that no matter what - and nobody ever really figured what went wrong - my PC just had too little disk space.  It's an old one in computer years (which are a bit like dog years).  At the time when I bought it, I was told a whopping 260 Gigabytes was more than I'd ever need. Sort of like when I bought my first Windows PC in 1993, I was told 4 MBs of RAM was more than I'd ever need.

The techies explained at this point, even if they found the problem, there was a good chance the pittance of disk space I had left wouldn't be enough with which to sally forth.  And it likely would create more problems down the road with future updates which, shocking nobody, require a certain amount of space to work in the first place. Space I no longer had.

So we gave the PC up to the tech gurus who replaced the old drive with a new drive containing what will no doubt be an insufficient amount of space in the near future - 2 Terabytes of space.  Already, with getting things loaded up and bringing back things I had to delete as my old drive diminished and went into the West, it's down to 1.6 TBs.  But as I keep all files and downloads on external drives, the decline should slow down.  I should note I avoid the Cloud thing as a matter of course, being a private person skeptical about leaving my wallet and personal information in the middle of digital parking lots, no matter how secure they insist they are.  So there shouldn't be much more taken up since there's not much left to load. 

With that said, I'm still in the process of hunting some things down.  Not everything transferred over, and a few programs or apps seem to be lost in the techno ether.  And like all things modern tech, it's leaping through and into endless hoops, loops and frying pans when it comes to logging in here or finding stuff there. With everything else going on right now (more on that later, nothing bad, but very busy), it will continue to occupy me for a little bit more time. 

I know crazy things have happened out there in the world as they always do, but quite frankly, I've not had time to process much of it.  When things settle, and the PC is back to doing PC stuff, I'll be return at least more semi-regularly. Until then, TTFN, and God bless.