I got up this morning, turned on the laptop and left to unload the dishwasher.  I came back a few minutes later to find it completely frozen.  Nothing seemed to work.  I tried pushing the power button--to no avail.  (I later found out that I just didn't hold it down long enough.)  Shift-alt-delete didn't work either.

We had breakfast, and then I phoned our local computer man, and voila!  Holding the button down longer did work.  Am I dumb?  This has never happened to me before.  When the screen has frozen, I've always been able to restart it.

I had visions of losing everything, some major malfunction, and oh dear, how can we possibly afford another computer after just upgrading my husband's!  Needless to say, I will be doing some backups today--and keeping them a bit more current than I have been .  I think the beginning of March was the last time I did a backup.

Well, now that my fears are relieved, the shower and housecleaning calls.  I'll be back later to catch up on everyone.