Archive for July, 2005
JessaLu Jessalu where have you been?
I have been to computer hell and am now back again…
I kind of stole that from Mother Goose…but I don’t think she’ll mind ;o)
So Monday my daughter wanted to go to the mall to hang out with her friends – and I decided that I would take the opportunity to do some quality high-speed internet surfing :o) My sister came with me and after we dropped the kid off we went to B&N and got settled in. At least…Amanda did. I started a slow meltdown. Why, you ask? Because as my laptop booted up I noticed a nonstop parade of error messages dancing across my screen. Lovely. Amanda asked me what was wrong and I started to tell her and watched her eyes glaze over. I then simplified it in a semi-scream “MY LAPTOP IS MELTING!!!” which she finally understood. Somehow it made it more stressful that I didn’t have anyone to talk to about it while it was happening. I ended up making a tearful call to my computer guru (even puter geeks have gurus – they usually like to be paid in baked goods ;o) ). He wasn’t available so I left a message. And then panic set in. I started thinking of all the work I had on this thing and wondering how the hell I was going to get it off (at this point I started tearfully praying to the backup gods and making all kinds of false promises of regular offerings, etc, etc). I managed to not mess with the thing until the next morning and I think I managed to get most of my stuff off. Now I’m using the desktop (bleh) until I manage to pull a new laptop out of my butt. Believe me, its not going to be easy. My guru? Finally called on Thursday. grrrr – NO cookies for him!
Update: Talk about timing – this article was in the Berkshire Eagle today:
http://berkshireeagle.com/columnists/ci_2902860
Tags: And now Jennifer has tagged me!!
And now Jennifer has tagged me!!
Brace yourselves…here we go!
Pronunciation Key
n. pl. id·i·o·syn·cra·sies
A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
Write
down five of your own personal idiosyncrasies. Then, if you wish, tag
five people from your live gerbil or friendslist to do the same.
1. Food is not meant to be mixed together prior to reaching your stomach. There will be no touching prior to ingestion. And, there are times that I seriously consider only eating one thing for a while. Also, there are only four things that are actually meant to touch: Steak, Corn, Potatoes and Gravy. That’s it. Nothing else.
2. When putting something on a bulletin board everything has to line up or it bothers me. The same goes for putting labels on files.
3. I will toss flip flops, boots and sneakers anywhere in the house but my stilettos have a special place in my closet. They’re even in boxes to keep the dust off.
4. Not sure if this is an idiosyncrasy or not but…I refuse to go into my basement. It is dark, dank, dirty, generally ucky and there are dead…things. I have been known to go an entire day without hot water or heat in mid-winter because I will not, under any circumstances go into the basement. At all. I also have attic issues but since alot of my files are in there I have to deal. There aren’t moldy spiders up there so it makes it a little easier.
5. Typos. I hate typos. I can spell like nobody’s business and have been called a walking Webster on more than one occasion – mostly because I did alot of reading during my teen geek years. How hard is it to do a freaking spellcheck before you click on ‘post’?! Boy do I hate that.
There. There are five things…now I’m going to go alphabetize my cupboards and line up my clothes by color ;o)
Almost there…
…after three inches of interesting and twelve inches of mind-numbingly boring stockinette on circular needles…I am almost done!
Doggie is totally faking sleep here, I think she has given up all hope of being left alone when its time for me to take pictures :o) At least she doesn’t fight me anymore, hehe
