Y’know, I think my excitement over the impending beach season is waning… :crazy

A FRIDAY FUNNY

This week’s I-pulled-it-out-of-my-a** Friday Funnies theme is… When Animals Attack!

FREE BOOK FRIDAY

Since this Free Book Friday title from several weeks ago was never claimed, I’m putting it up again. :winkwink

To enter the giveaway for this book, simply leave a comment to today’s post that includes the code FBF—for “Free Book Friday,” of course—to let me know you’re interested in the drawing. (U.S. residents only for the prize, please, but everyone is welcome to chat.)

Winner will be announced during our Happy Sunday post on…well, you know, Sunday.  Winner is responsible for contacting me with her mailing information—i.e. I will not be contacting you—so be sure to check back in or you might not even know you won! :whhhat (If prize isn’t claimed within 7 days, another name may be drawn or item may be tossed back into the goody bag to be re-used for a future giveaway.)

P.S. Winners of all the recent Free Book Friday & other assorted giveaways that I need to catch up on will be announced on Sunday, so be sure to pop in & see if you won anything during my week-long absence. :imback

Whew, what a week.  I swear, it felt like the longest of my life. :faint

I’ve finally got my computer back, but what I expected to take a day or two ended up taking six.  And how’s this for irony—I’m not sure it’s fixed! LOL

I actually took the thing into the shop because I needed them to set up a new external hard drive & streamline a couple of other things, but since the stupid thing has been crashing on me quite a bit lately, I told them to go ahead & figure out what the deal was with that at the same time so I would no longer want to :smash on a daily basis.

The good news is, they ran all kinds of diagnostic tests & didn’t find any viruses, worms, or other signs that my poor PC might needed to go on antibiotics. :thumbsup

The bad news is, they ran it for two days straight, looked into everything they could think of, & it never crashed even once.  They couldn’t make it crash, even though it does it for me on a regular basis without prompting of any kind. :stinky   (Is that like taking your sick-for-a-week kid to the doctor only to have them smile & laugh & seem perfectly fine, or what?)

So I bring it home, hook it back up, turn it on…& what happens?  You guessed it!  Within the first five minutes, it CRASHED! :smash

But, y’know, I’m just going to deal with it.  If it keeps up, I’ll go back in & tell them to dig deeper, but for now, I’m just happy to have the stupid thing back, no matter how it’s acting. :brava

It’s about 10:30pm as I’m writing this, though, & I am tired, so give me a couple days to get my act in gear & catch up, okay?  I’ve got about 350 gazillion e-mails to wade through, most of them work-related. :crazy   But I know I’ve got some prize winners to announce, & if I get around to it, I’ll put together a new FBF post for tomorrow.  Otherwise, you’ll get whatever flotsam my soggy brain can manage. :tpspspspt

But even though I’m tired & behind & slightly clueless, at least I can finally say :imback