5th HP Hard Drive Failure

I have owned an HP TouchSmart computer (sleek looking but it ended there) that has repeatedly had hard drive failures. Today was my 5th –yes 5th–you read that right, and last one!  I averaged a hard drive failure every 12 months.  Thank you, HP!

I managed to get HP to replace them through multiple calls to corporate, thankfully, but the joy was always short-lived.  It ALWAYS went on the crash again. The last replacement was January 9, 2012. Two years later and I am here again for the fifth and last time.

I”m finished!

This time, luckily, I am running two backup drive and hope they captured all the data I have on my hard drive. I just installed the second one two weeks ago!  Whew.

I was having keyboard issues the past few weeks, which I managed to resolve this morning, and then upon a reboot this afternoon, nothing worked.  Windows tried to launch and couldn’t. The PC tried to start and said there was a failure to try to do a recovery.  I tried three recoveries and nothing happened.  Then I ran a system check and up came this error.  The dreaded hard drive failure error.

Off to buy a new desktop PC. Any recommendations are most welcome.  I know many people swear by Apple, however, with my clients primarily on windows, I don’t think it is a wise move for me.

Bear with me now as it will take some time to get my office up and running again. I will be online on my laptop in the meantime but I have a lot of work to do to get things back to where they were.

Happy New Year!


Photo by Uwe Schwarzbach

I just wanted to wish everyone a SPLENDID NEW YEAR celebration (stay safe!).   

May 2014 be YOUR YEAR!

As 2013 comes to an end, I  am exceptionally grateful for an amazing twelve months!

Thank YOU to everyone who has been a part of this year with me.

Thank you to those of you who believed in me, helped me share my message and supported me. Thank you to those of you who shared your thoughts with me and kept me thinking on my blog–I love learning together!

I feel so blessed for so many amazing experiences and feel honored to meet and know each and every one of you. 

Truly.

Thank you for an incredible year!  May next year be even better!

Happy 2014 to you!

Truth or lie?

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Interesting story…do you believe it or not?  If not, why?

Happy Holidays!!


Photo by Tristan Martin

Happy Holidays from me to you!

May your holiday season be bright, joyful and full of love!

Radley Horwitz on 48 Hours

Radley was the son of Lanny and Donna Horwitz.  They were a blessed family with lots of money to live the good life, but life wasn’t good for Lanny and Donna.  The two separated and divorced multiple times and upon the last reconciling, things were still tainted between them as another woman was in the scene.

So when Lanny ended up dead, the mystery was who did it?  The case is long and involved, but eventually a court of law determined that it was Lanny’s first love, Donna, to whom he was married previously and had recently reconciled with who did it. They believed she had motive…the motive of jealousy because of the other woman.  But the case was all circumstantial.

When 48 Hours aired this story a week ago, one person dropped a boat load of red flags and I can tell you unequivocally, I didn’t believe him whatsoever. That person is Lanny’s son, Radley.  While I cannot conclusively rule out Donna as being involved, Radley was hotter than a potato out of the oven.  I have little doubt he knows exactly what happened and could have easily been the killer — protected by his mother after the fact as she knows he is young and has his whole life ahead of him and a daughter to raise.

Radley is egotistical and arrogant, and quite frankly a chip off the old block.  They say people who are alike either love each other or hate each other.  With Radley and Lanny, it turned to hate.

Radley’s “stories” were over-the-top and his behaviors were unnatural at every turn.  He had me crawling up the walls that he was never looked at as a suspect.

I do not trust one word Radley said to 48 Hours or on the stand.