Two days after the previous post, I was flattened by a virus that took me out for more than four weeks. I said to someone that I knew how a computer must feel when its operating system crashes and it has to rebuild it without a manual. I’ve rarely felt so insightful. When mine came back up it was Windows 95 in safe mode and with no keyboard. I was on automatic, doing only what I’d done before; routine tasks which, fortunately, included feeding my cats and eventually myself. Meanwhile, my ‘screen’ blinked its cursor and did basic Windows housekeeping. … Continue reading Picking up where I left off