I got to be part of two mini-miracles tonight.  Lincoln (my tablet PC) which had dyed a couple of months ago came back to life tonight.  It was dead in the sense that when turned on, there would be a black screen and nothing more.

I guess it’s road back to life began a couple of nights ago when I found some old batteries for it when cleaning up some old computer stuff at my parents’ house.  I looked at them and thought “heh, it might be worth trying to boot it up with these” even though I never believed it would work.

I put a battery in tonight, turned it on, and nothing happened.  Exact same symptoms as before.  The screen would stay black and never boot into anything or even show that it was trying.  So I turned it off and on a couple of times and just as I was about to give up, it started to boot.  My hopes still did not get very high but it continued.  It made it to “Starting Windows” followed by the login screen.  I logged in and it was as if nothing had ever happened!  Now, this in itself was pretty amazing.  My amazement was about to explode.  Right on the desktop was a folder full of pictures that I believed to have been deleted last summer.  Pictures including my old apartment and other pics from my old phone.  I had checked backups months ago from my tablet before it had died and could not find them anywhere, yet somehow, they were on my tablet.  Complete insanity.  I don’t think my smile could have gotten any wider.

 Work has been busy.  I had my annual review a couple of weeks ago and it went great.  I wasn’t nervous about it not going well but it was even better than expected.

The summer is coming to an end and it’s been a good one living in our first house.  A lot of mowing and a lot of yard work (mostly chopping trees) but I wouldn’t trade it for an apartment.  It’s been great.

Almost coming up on our 1 year anniversary.  It’s been an insane year full of good and bad but just like the house, it’s all been well worth it.