oh the stress, what a relief

Yesterday was sooo stressful, but in the end the outcome was good so I can't complain. The (very very helpful) pc man came at lunchtime and discovered that the power supply had blown, which he said was very common and easy to fix. So he tried a new one which worked, and then tested the mother board which was ok. So then he started up the computer and got nothing. Oh, he said, some bad news !?!?!? Apparently our hard disk had been damaged, and we could either try and retrieve everything which would mean sending it away, (and cost a lot of money), try and restore the hard disk or have a new one. Not wonderful news. But then we had a wonderful piece of luck, when everything had been unplugged for the fitting of the new power supply, when it all got plugged in again it worked! I think we were very lucky. The worst thing is that we had everything plugged into an expensive surge protector plug which should have prevented it happening in the first place! So I went back to work very happy. But part two. I came home in the evening and sat down to try and catch up on things, and I could get onto the internet no problem, but not log into any sites. It kept saying there were problems with the websits security certificates. After five phone calls, one system restore and nearly two hours, it got sorted. It was because the time and date had been reset on our computer when the power supply was changed, which meant they didn't match those on the sites I wanted to visit. By this time I was very stressed and exhausted, but so happy now it is sorted. What a week, and it is only wednesday. I shall try to shake off all my worries in my body combat class tonight! To show that I have done a little bit of sewing here is an update on the work in progress I showed you last week, it is coming on! : )