{"id":98149,"date":"2021-12-12T06:02:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=98149"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:27:01","slug":"computer-issues-what-a-way-to-start-my-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/12\/12\/computer-issues-what-a-way-to-start-my-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Issues – What A Way To Start My Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SettingSetting Moon<\/span><\/p>\n

I woke up this morning and my computer doesn’t want to boot. It got stuck on the start up screen over and over again. I’m in the process of running diagnostics and hopefully I will be up and running again before too long.<\/p>\n

There is never a good time for a computer to act like this. My regular post will be delayed. I’m not sure how long this is going to take but I have decades of experience at fixing computers and hopefully I’ll get this one straightened out this morning.<\/p>\n

I used my tablet to get this post done.<\/p>\n

Life is good. Right?<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Update: I was able to finally get my computer to boot, it may have been an external hard drive causing the issues. I still need to do more testing. My post for today will be done tomorrow. Right now I am up to my eyeballs in diagnostics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning and my computer doesn’t want to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2578,2244],"tags":[12638,12637,800,5439,225,4378,6414,12636,4018,2315,4427,4076],"class_list":["post-98149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clark-county","category-idaho","tag-boot","tag-computer","tag-full-moon","tag-harvest-moon","tag-moon","tag-morning","tag-night","tag-setting","tag-sky","tag-summer-3","tag-tree","tag-trees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/harvest-moon-mia-mcpherson-2933.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-px3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98161,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2021\/12\/13\/my-computer-is-up-and-running-but-i-am-frazzled\/","url_meta":{"origin":98149,"position":0},"title":"My Computer Is Up And Running But I am Frazzled","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"December 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"My post yesterday was about my computer not booting which messed up my morning post. 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