I got my laptop back from Geek Squad, and while I was able to recover most of what was lost, my address book went off into the ether, so I guess I’ll have to reassemble that from wherever it is I’ve stashed all sorts of e-mail addresses. I spent a long time last night re-loading things like the printer and re-setting the monitor, etc. Wow, they dump a lot of useless stuff into new computer installations.

I did invest in a large external hard drive so that the next time this happens — and it will — I will have a more reliable back-up than the crusty old hard drive left over from my old Toshiba laptop.

Anyway, onward…