I Feel Connected!

Yes, I finally got my new computer. Or I should say modem. So many times I think people refer to the whole kit-and-kaboodle(modem, monitor, etc) as the compute. But I digress.

A month and a half ago both my desktop and laptop bit the dust...a week apart! No thanks to those idiots on YouTube who have nothing better to do than to send out viruses. Not that I'm playing the company that runs YouTube(although you 'could' up your security a tad) but those who place videos on the site.

My entire family sans myself were constantly on the site and now it is permanently banned from the house. My 14 yo used it for her video game tips, my dh used it in place of a radio while he was working but the biggest culprit was my autistic daughter. She loved to watch everything from Lambchop to Micheal Flatley! The month and a half that we've gone without has helped lessen the blow of her addiction but we're still having wars over it.

I wish that there was a way to block one site with buying a program much like you can block a television channel. If anyone knows how please let me know. It would allow peace to encompass the land once again. At least for a little while.

But I'm so happy to have a computer once again. My SIL who is the head of her company's IT dept had one of 'her guys' look at our old systems. Unfortunately nothing was salvageable but he could see the trail of destruction. They even emailed YouTube with the information(apparently they have to). But now I am going through the task of re-installing all that I had on the old one. I also had to break the news to the girls that they would have to re-do a great deal of schoolwork since they were homeschooled this year via CD-Roms and all that information/grades were lost!

We won't be using that method when the new school year begins in November!

But now I have relinquish my new toy for the queue is getting insistent. Something about being 'thier turn' !