November/December is my busy season, and I had scheduled to do computer maintenance on the week of 21st including a new hard drive. Of course things never go as you plan. I finished processing some hockey teams and a group of 70 school kids on a Wednesday and on the Thursday morning I couldn't load Windows. My hard drive was completely stuffed. I'm always moving files to an external drive but it has been such a busy season everything is behind. The good news is that the only data I seemd to lose was some fonts and my list of RSS feeds, and now the 'puter is performing very nice.
I placed myself on a strict exile from the Internet while I was getting caught up and now that I am almost back to norm and I'm looking at things.
(a) Has something happened to the search at Istock, I've passed November earnings (but that isn't a great accomplishment)
(b) Have we entered holiday season? Things seem a little slow.