As defined in my favorite holiday movie (Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck) catastrophe is a word from the Greek, meaning: NOT good. In tarot cards, it's #16 in the majors, the tower. Again, NOT good. It's an event of little warning with dire consequences. Like an earthquake or tsunami. Cutting to the chase, my windows 10 laptop DIED. Catastrophe.
One minute I was happily surfing the net, the next my computer (for NO apparent reason) shut down. WTF?? When I attempted to restart, the machine tried repeatedly to repair itself, to no avail. DEAD. FRIED. TOAST. OMG. Visions of all that lost data danced in my head. O.M.G.
When I began writing this post, I was unaware that people in Alabama were about to be hit by devastating tornadoes. Losing homes and lives. In the overall scheme of things, my dead computer is mere fly shit. I already have a new laptop on order, and will spend a day reconstructing my Quicken data. I'm a paper hoarder, so have everything I need to get the job done. Would that those hit by the tornadoes would fare as well. As a survivor of two hurricanes in September, 2017, my heart goes out to those who have suffered losses.
Penny Pincher
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