I just tried to get togehter a TSR newsletter and the DISC OF LOST SOULS file that I store all the adresses of memebers and it’s empty. My whole fucking email account is blank except for the inbox.
I’m just gonna crawl into a hole.
Mr. Tibbs,
Take some deep breaths, put down any sharp objects. It’s going to be OK.
I feel your pain. The same thing happened to me in October! Stupid Viruses!
Nope I’m pushing for this job in Iraq. If it doesn’t pan out there paying short order cooks 65 grand tax free for a year. I’m leaving on a jet plane.
I can relate Mr. Tibbs - everyone I know in the world with a telephone number was stored in the address book in my cellular telephone. Used to be that when I would add a new name/number, I would back it up on an Excel spreadsheet on the home computer but for the last few years I have been kind of lazy! Now I totaly depend on that address book and unfortunately there are darn few numbers that I can recall from memory - heck, I could not even tell you my wife’s work phone number without first looking it up in my cell phone’s address book (guess I should call her at work more often)!
Well as you probably already guessed, disaster struck last week while I was in the middle of a high intensity training ride because I failed to be 10% smarter than the equipment with which I was working (military regulation). While out riding on my TT bike, I was wearing a road skinsuit that has no back pockets and not wanting to put cellphone inside the suit as i normally do (it get sweaty and floats around), I decided to wedge it between the seat and my Pedros seatbag - sweat! When I started the ride, the phone was wedged in there pretty darn tight and I was sure there would be no problems as the phone would stay right were it put it - wrong!
Just to make sure, every few minutes I would reach down behind the seat and check to make sure the phone was still there but unfortunatley once I got warmed up and dialed into a good rythm, I forgot all about the phone! After 8-10 minutes and a couple bumpy sections of road, I elected to check on the phone but to my surprise it was gone. I instantly reversed course and while traveling at a snails pace, I back tracked along my route intently searching the roadside for my missing cell phone (and its precious address book)! Then suddenly I spied the plastic ziploc bag in which I had put the phone and there, 10-12 feet away, I saw first the lower half and then the display of what had been Sprint PCS cell phone but was now nothing more than bits of shredded palstic and silicon - argh!
Michael
here is what you could do…this was printed in a local newspaper here in Boulder about a year ago:
Dude, he shot his Dell!
Man walks into a bar, kills computer
LAFAYETTE, Colorado – George Doughty won’t have any more problems with his computer. But the computer will never work again either.
Doughty was accused Sunday of shooting his Dell laptop four times with a Smith & Wesson revolver in the middle of his Sportsman’s Inn Bar and Restaurant.
He then allegedly hung the destroyed laptop on the wall “like a hunting trophy,” said Lt. Rick Bashor of the Lafayette Police Department.
Doughty, 48, who owns the establishment, entered the bar from his office on Sunday morning. He told the two patrons and bartender that he was going to shoot his computer before returning to his office. Some 30 minutes later, police said, Doughty set his laptop on the floor, warned the customers to cover their ears and fired away. No one was injured.
Police learned of the shooting when an employee of the bar called the bartender to ask if there was anything going on. The bartender then told her about the incident and she notified authorities, Bashor said.
Doughty never explained what prompted his actions, but told police that it seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
Because Doughty is accused of putting the customers and bartender in danger, he was arrested on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons.