it works

i've been having computer problems.  who hasn't i hear you ask?  i've been in touch with acer who have been very helpful and i rang yesterday to get instructions of where to send it for repair etc. it was going to cost $100 to reinstall windows and clean it out which i didn't think was too bad.  the operator asked me to try something else and we reset it.  this has been tried before so i wasn't confident.  basically i had to have the external hdd inserted so that windows would work and a lot of the time i couldn't connect to the internet.  very inconvenient.  so we reset the computer and as you may or not know it takes hours.  so i had a nana nap and when i awoke the reset had finished.  but, it said it was unsuccessful and no changes had been made.  so i pressed ok and voila, it took me through the new set up process.  so it did work.  now i have a nice new computer, sort of.  i don't need the external hdd inserted.  yay.  it works nicely too, i haven't had any problems thus far.  nice

i'm back

from bali.  my son and dil enjoyed their holiday so much that they want to go back.  i went white water rafting and damaged my knees but i did enjoy it and they healed quickly.  i took them to tanah lot, the sea temple, the botanic gardens, bedugul and lots of other places.  they went on an elephant tour and enjoyed that.  we had lots of relaxing sunset drinks at the beach and released some turtles.  we also went to the turtle rescue place which was good.  the trip home was much shorter and very smooth but getting onto the plane is a chore as it takes forever. the two hotels we stayed at were very nice and all in all we had a great time.