Wonder of wonders. Yesterday at several different times I was going to boot up the laptop here in my sewing studio. Nothing. No little cursor to move around. Not even the mouse was interested. I wound all the cords up and knew it has been a wonderful relationship since 2008. As I was taking a break this afternoon waiting for my iron to heat up . . . what the heck. I plugged the old faithful in and away she went. I backed everything up on my Click Free external unit right then and there. I do back it up every two weeks as it is. I am not on the computer as much as I used to be. Mostly it is for the photos that my backups are important. Who knows what happened. Maybe it needed to go AWAL just like the cats do once in awhile.
I would miss my old faithful, but I am a realist to know that not many people have computers that are nine years old. Just as this laptop, I back up my computer in the living room on a programmed schedule. Whew! Sewing studio . . . we are back on track.