Hey All,

A very Happy New Year to you my friends!

A couple of days ago my old faithful computer geek finally called - he'd finally got around to looking at my computer. And guess what!??!?! It was my new secondary terrabyte drive that failed NOT my old main hard drive with everything on it for more than ten years! YAY!!! YAY!!! YAY!!!

I'm SO happy, so thrilled! Best of all, the terrabyte drive is still covered by waranty and so despite being without my computer for over a month, the whole episode is FREE!!! Plus, while we're waiting for the new hd to be replaced, he put in a temp drive, already installed with my main drive fully backed up onto it! Whoo hoo! Now all we need is a Windows program like Time Machine!

I confess I got a fair bit of cash for Christmas and was able to pay him ALL of what I owed him from the last hardware failure and upgrade (with lots left for family Christmas presents and food!). So I'm totally cool! There is even a good chance he'll have a reconditioned laptop for me in the near future as well!

Naturally, one of the first things I've done in this less than two hours since I got hooked up again (after my main email) was to open Mandelbulb3D and pick up where I left off! Once I get over the initial whirlwind of having my system back in place, I may even get back to posting!

Thanks so much for all your kind support and encouragement through my trauma! Sometimes miracles (well kinda) DO happen! LOL!

You're all STARS!!!

Leonie

PS If I screwed up on group submissions or your submission expired, please let me (or the group) know. To my group heads, for the time being, please leave my group settings as they are now. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to keep up with my former duties due to some interesting 'real time' ideas I've got cooking! Thanks for your patience!

Also I'm still looking for helpers for #YellowClub. Let me know if you're interested!