03/05/2010 - Of Frying Pans and Fires

You guys know the expression, "our of the frying pan and into the fire"? As I understand this expression to mean, you are in some difficult situation and then it partially resolves only to escalate and become worse.

Well, I guess we've jumped from the fire into the frying pan ... or something like that. Our computer has been in for repair and we finally got it back. Turns out they had to nearly gut the entire thing and replace a lot. We got it back so things began to come back to some semblance of normality, but then we made a startling discovery ... WHERE ARE ALL OUR EMAIL CONTACTS?! Yeah, so we lost all our email contacts because the computer geek of the family (me) didn't back them up properly.

For the geeks: I made an assumption in Windows 7 that I shouldn't have. In windows 7 they did away with WAB's and now they are stored in a sub-directory in your user profile called contacts. Since I couldn't find the WAB anywhere I assumed the contacts were stored in the Windows live mail folder. I should have checked it out fist, but live and learn. My old boss heard about it and said it is funny when it happens to the computer geeks :P

Anyways, yeah so now we've lost our email contacts which also housed our newsletter distribution list so we don't know who wanted the newsletter or not. I ended up finding a way to gather some old email addresses we use so I sent a mass mail asking if these people wanted the newsletter or not.

If you didn't get the email, you can either reply here or email me assuming you have my email address.