Back at last. Another customer decided to refi his mortgage right in the middle of our building project with him and of course that caused all sorts of problem with the attorney and lender. After staying up hours and hours Fri working on all that to determine just what money we needed from customer to be caught up with the work so far, they all decided to allow us to just do a percentage. So, that figured out we ran down to the attorney's to sign paperwork and in that short time our computer fried.
I'd left it up on the emails as I was looking for the attorney's forms, and we ran out and came home to a black and bare screen and no way to get it going again.
So back to our computer lady who told us a day later there was a short somewhere and she thought there was a surge...but we have whole house surge protection on our electrical system so I'm unsure about that. She had to repair Windows and reinstall the 5 years of anti-virus we put in...and we didn't get it back till tonight. She thinks our little surge supressor probably wasn't working and we plugged it right into the battery backup, which was how we used to do it, but somehow had changed. Seems to work fine now. Crossing our fingers.
Closing with our house customers was today and with the computer down I couldn't even ask them a question as they do everything by email... and we did get through 22 of the pages successfully and only after I got home did I find the 4 last pages hiding under the stack of my emails I'd brought along. So had to call them to come get those and I'm waiting for them to come back.
I was so nervous about us doing this work that I didn't sleep all night and finally got up. When I did sleep I'd just get goofy dreams about that loan stuff. So I gave up.
Tired all day today.
One good thing: DH sold his little utility trailer. Had it out by the road with a sign on it. One bad thing: half the money we got went to fix this computer.
Hoping to get back to normal around here. I did get my tree up and lights in the bushes across the front of the house. Looks pretty. Sunday eve. we went to church where we all sat in the front lawn in our lawn chairs and watched an animated movie about the nativity (told from the animals' point of view, very cute). That was fun.
Sunny, following your saga of your road work. Yep, that's the reason road taxes are so high!
Oh, we got an invite for Christmas at DD's, will get to see her new digs. Not looking forward to the long trip but will be nice to be together once again.