Good old reliable technology..
you know when it comes to computers I am sort
of a luddite. I don’t care if I have to
hop up and down on my left leg, tug my right ear twice, then pat my (considerable)
stomach three times, AND every (repeat, every) time I do that, the computer does what I want it
to do, I am fine with that. Just be consistent for God’s sake. If this, then that. All the time. So anyway, this morning after doing my daily
scan of Facebook whizzing past all the kitties and doggies, photos of somebody “tagged”
at a party looking half in the bag, the vitriolic political ads from left and
right, to find the few meaningful things (say from restaurant pages), I decided to
shut the laptop down. Down in the little
window to pick what you want to do was that little yellow triangle with an
exclamation point in it. Click. Immediately get the typical “Windows is installing
update 1 of 23,454,872, do not shut down… etc.”
screen. Okay fine. So I walk away. After a while I notice that it had indeed
shut down.
Meantime I went up to the loft to do some stuff on the
desktop, where I had to go through the same drill. Eventually it comes to life, and I click on IE9 to
look at some sports stuff, and I get the little blue revolving circle and “website
cannot be found”. Google? You kidding me? I then notice the little four bar icon in the
system tray has another yellow triangle on it.
Hover over it and it tells me no internet connection is available! BS! I am sitting right here looking at my modem and
router and they’re both blinking happily.
Crap. Re-boot. Crap. One more time! Crap!
So I finally get in touch with my IT “go to” person who calms me down
when I think the world is ending. What followed
was a harrowing (for me) session of “unplug the modem” yikes!
"Now unplug the router". Sweat pouring
off my forehead. "Plug back in the
modem and wait for all four lights to go
steady green”. An eternity later they
do, except for the one on the right which should be blinking.. Okay plug in the router. I do, the now modem seems happy with blinking light five, and the router begins to flash meaningless
icons. Try it now! “website cannot be found”. Crap.
Hmm…. Unplug, plug, no change.
Let’s try shutting down the computer first.
We did, then plug in, plug in,
and bingo I am cruising on the WWW!. What the
heck? Fifth time is the charm! Magic.. might as well hop on my left leg.
Okay, and while I’m at it, here’s another one:
Lately when I fire up said laptop I get a little window
popping up informing me there is an update to Java available and do I want to install
it. First time, I said, what the hell,
sure.. well half way into the process,
it looked like I was not only downloading the Java stuff, I was getting Google
Chrome for free!! I don’t want it!!!
Stop! Now it's a daily routine..
I tell you.. Computers: you can’t live with them and you
can’t live without them..I think somebody said something like that about something..
To market, to market...
Lastly, I hate to just relate what you can read for yourself
in the newspapers, but not everybody reads them. Alert readers (of the newspaper) might know
that McKay’s old food store on Hollywood Leonardtown road was trying to get a
license to have a little wine bistro in the store. Back and forth with the liquor board, but
finally after discovering one of the board members has exactly the same thing,
they relented. Now if you go by there,
there are more trades vans than you can shake a wine glass at (Electric, HVAC, Plumbers, Framers, Dry Wallers, etc.). Anyway, that’s not the news, the news is that
McKay's will be pulling out of the store they have in Wildewood, near DB
McMillans (an independently owned restaurant).
Some entanglement about leases.
Those McKays seem to have trouble with their places.. Woodburns, and now this. Speaking of which, somebody said that the
renovated place on Hollywood Leonardtown will be more like the original Woodburns. Only an observation, but a different
demographic on this side than Solomons was.
Next post will reveal the flutters plans for going to
Ireland (and more).
TIP!
And speaking of posts (said the clever blogger) I found out
something interesting yesterday. When I create
the brilliantly crafted blog and hit the “publish” button, it immediately
appears on the internet. BUT, apparently
if you get it delivered by email, it may take overnight. Somebody said today that “hey that lecture
you said was tonight was last night!”
their email popped in a day late.
Right under the title of the piece it tells you when it was posted. So beware if you use it for scheduling..
But you can always schedule being
DFD
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