Kid Wigger: Blog

I just posted chapter 29. I don't know if it is the final edited version. Please email any mistakes. I'll check my email tomorrow, and after that it will be awhile before I get back online to check my email.

The HP 2000 goes into the box and gets sent out UPS to get fixed. It could be two weeks before it comes home.

Enjoy the read, and thanks again for all the help.

I tried everything I could think of to get chapter 29 back. I went into Outlook to my Sent folder and tried to open the file so I could save it as a Text file.

Didn't work.

I hope I'll get the file in my email. However, I'll go back to my last saved version that I can open and see what I can do. I've also got another idea to try.

Thanks to everyone for all the useful info. I was able to save Chapter 30 and I backed up all the files in my Code Monkey Book 001 folder on 2-6-15. I am hoping From the Basement can send me back the final copy of chapter 29 I sent him as I don't have a working copy of that right now. I can reconstruct it if I must. However, I am sending off my HP 2000 to have a new cooling fan put into it Monday. The HP wasn't the laptop that was hacked, my Acer Aspire that runs XP and Word 2003, that I love was and is my writing laptop. My local computer geek was able to kill the virus using a combination of Bullware and a few other antivirus packages. I haven't tried to retrieve the encrypted files yet, but I've done some writing and opened all the other software packages and haven't gotten any pop-up hold-up screens. I'll give that a few days before I feel safe again.

As soon as I get chapter 29 back or rebuild it from an earlier, backed-up version, and I get my HP 2000 back, as it is my web-portal laptop with all the fancy antivirus stuff on it, I'll post the next chapter.

I will never go on the internet with my Acer again. The Acer can be toggled to turn off the wireless network card. That is off now and will stay off. The only reason I went online with the Acer was because I didn't want to overheat the motherboard in my HP.

Thank you to everyone who sent good vibes and good sites, I hope I can unlock my encrypted Code Monkey folder with some of those utilities.

As far as the medical situation, I will find out if I am a candidate for the robotic-out patient procedure for the prostatectomy in ten days. My primary doctor thinks I should qualify, and all my other pre-surgery tests--cardiac, colonoscopy, blood work, CT and such are finally done and came back OK or showed what was going on. Thanks again for all your well wishes and prayers.

I'll blog again when I get my HP back. The extended warrantee was the best $28 I ever spent.

Good reads to all and to all a good night.

I've got big problems. I'm having problems with my HP2000 which is my internet portal. I've got an extended warantee, so it will get fixed once I can devote time to that. I just got a bunch of pop-up windows one my Acer laptop that I use to write on telling me that HELP.ENCRIPT has encrypted my files and what website I need to go to in EU to get (pay for) my password. I backed up my files about a week before this happened, but i have a feeling all of the work i've managed to get done between then and now is lost. I don't know if my latest saved version of chapters 30 and what I'd done in 31 are going to be any good or if they will have a hack/bug that would transfer to any computer I put them on. I did send the last version of chapter 29 to a reader. I need to contact him to see if he could read the file, so the next chapter might be intact.

Code Monkey will be on hold until I can get this straightened out. With my medical situation tossed into the mix, that might be some time.

I am very sorry. Has anybody ever run into this before?

My surgery was put off. I might be a candidate for a laser knife surgery that would be an outpatient procedure, instead of a five to seven day hospital recovery with a long home recovery after that with lots of pain meds. I've figured out how the meds I'm on now impact my day and have gotten some new writing done. However, I'm still way behind as far as I'm concerned.

Thank you to everyone who have sent their well wishes and other messages of support. I also want to thank the wonderful readers who have donated to the cause.

Thank you all.