Sunday, January 13, 2013

Love Technology

Wednesday morning when the adjuster came to the house to look at the damage from the ice maker water debacle, Luke went to get some information from the computer. Nothing but a black screen. Sweet...perfect timing. Luke sends me a text at work and asks me if i know what is wrong with the PC and how long it's been like that. Apparently the PC decided it had enough...and it was it's day. It had a good run. We bought it in July 2009 right before Wiggy was born... when our last PC crashed. 
After I got home from work Wednesday I did a few things and after running diagnostics, it gave me an error code. The error code on HP's website said that the hard drive was basically on the verge of going bye-bye and I needed to back everything up. We do not have an external hard drive and have never backed anything up. I do save my pictures to discs/thumb drives, but that's about it.
Anyways, the last time we bought a PC Luke said the NEXT time we need to buy a computer we are getting a Mac. We went to Best Buy to look at all of the PC's, including the Macs. We have plenty of Apple products in our house, but I wasn't too sure about a Mac computer. On my Friday off I went into the Apple store and spoke to a dude about the new iMacs. I got sucked in. There are two sizes...27 inch and 21.5 inch. Right off the bat I knew the 27 inch was too big...but bigger is better, right?!
I bought the 27 inch and the dude walked Wiggy and I out to the car. Later that night we set it up.
Too big. Luke agreed. But bigger is better, right!? Not this time.
Saturday morning we headed back to the Apple store and Luke examined the other options in the store. After about 20 minutes of going back and forth we decided to save $450 and get the 21.5 inch. We got it set up yesterday and finally I am able to use it today. It has a different Internet browser that is allowing me to blog since Internet Explorer is experiencing some technical issues. So.....here I am...blogging away. Blah, blah, blah. I still don't really know how to do much on the computer so I probably need to take one of Apple's free classes....which is pretty neat. 
We have figured out how to take some photos using "Photo Booth." If nothing else, we can take silly pics on this contraption.






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That Stop Wasn't On My Itinerary....

So the Hogue's made it to Florida for our first official family vacation. It was Sawyer's first plane ride....and Simon's first plane ride that he can remember. We were excited....the boys were stoked. We had everything we needed! But it seems that Sawyer packed something with him that wasn't on our checklist: a big case of pneumonia. Yes, the little fella made it almost one whole day in Florida before he started heading downhill fast. Our 2nd day in Orlando we were in the Urgent Care south of Cocoa Beach. (By the way, to see a doctor more quickly, it helps if you vomit all over the waiting room in front of the receptionist. Little tip for ya) After chest x-rays they advised us to head to the ER in Melbourne, where they eventually admitted him to the hospital. So, we had 3 night deluxe accommadations at the Holmes Regional Medical Center. The little whipper snapper was a trooper though! The nurses loved him, thankfully, and made us all feel right at home. We were going to send postcards out with pictures of the hospital since we spent 40% of our trip there...but they didn't have any. Imagine that!Hmmm.....maybe its something they should consider.

Florida 2008