It was just one of those weeks. I got a text from my credit card company asking me if I made a couple of big charges – $529 & $273 – I answered no. Then I got a call from their fraud division and found out that someone had used my card # to buy some furniture and electronics. They said no problem, they would take these charges off , cancel my card and send me a new one. Great, so glad they contacted me.
Then 2 days later I get an email from my bank, asking me about 3 charges using my debit card. Nope, not me either. Super, they will decline those and cancel my debit card and send me a new one. Obviously I have been hacked somehow. I immediately looked up all the rest of my accounts to make sure they were all ok. So for so good.
Now I don’t usually carry a lot of cash with me, but when you don’t have a credit card or debit card that you can use, it is amazing how much money you need to carry around, especially for Christmas shopping. I have made more trips to the bank in the last week than I have in the past year. haha. I am now on a first name basis with all the tellers.
I thought life was running pretty smooth. Then Thursday I had a message on my computer that Dell had some updates. Did I want to update now or later. I clicked now. Nothing seemed to be happening, so I continued on with my work. I thought maybe I should restart my computer to see if the updates had been done. When I clicked on restart my computer would shut off and immediately come back on, then shut off and come back on. It was in a loop, I could shut it down or turn it back on. I called Dell and they said oops, something went wrong and they were sorry, the updates turned my computer into a brick. They were so sorry, however they would send me a box for me to put my computer in and mail back to them, then they would repair it and return to me in approx. 15 days. No charge.
Ok, that is all good and well, however what do I do in the meantime? For a couple of days I thought about just using my Ipad. That was not really what I need on a day to day basis. I could borrow hubby’s computer a little bit each day, however he uses his full time, so I can’t tie his up.
We had thought about buying a laptop for both of us to use if we were traveling or for him to use when he did some of his seminars. Not exactly what we had planned for right now, but it seemed like what we should do. So off to Fry’s eEectronics to see what they had. We found a guaranteed refurbished one that fit our criteria. Brought it home and it was defective. The colors were all messed up. People were purple one minute, green the next or maybe even bright yellow. We tried adjusting all the colors and nothing worked. Back to the store and they agreed it was defective, so they gave us a refund. They were sold out of everything else unless we wanted to increase our budget by $500 to $800.
That didn’t seem like that would work for us, so we started looking online. Finally found one that is what we want and it is supposed to be on it’s way. Hopefully this one will work and I will be back in business.
Life seemed great until I tried to look at my emails on my Iphone. It said it could not
get mail because I had the wrong password. I haven’t changed my password, so not sure how this happens. Now I am tryng to straighten this mess out.
I think maybe I will just go back to bed and see if I wake up and this is all a bad dream.
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