Signs of the Times!!

Not Well Yet -- My Computer That Is!

I had the most recent post scheduled several days ago, so that's why it's here now! I'm still, grumbling and mumbling and going slightly stir crazy with such limited connection, but my computer whiz will finally be back in town and at my house on Tuesday. Until then it's still just scraps! But I'm thinking of you all and I do miss you!!! Wishing you all a great weekend!!

New Exercises!

In my continual thought for my fellow computer friends, I offer.......

Neck Exercises to do at the computer

The Original Computer!!

Memory was something you lost with age;
An application was for employment;
A program was a TV show;
A cursor used profanity.

A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider's home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account

A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

And if you had a 3 inch floppy.



You just hoped nobody ever found out!

New E-Mail Virus

I thought you would want to know about this e-mail virus.
Even the most advanced programs from Norton or McAfee cannot take care of this one.
It appears to affect those who were born prior to 1960.

1. Causes you to send the same e-mail twice.
Done that!
2. Causes you to send a blank e-mail!
That too!
3. Causes you to send e-mail to the wrong person.
Yep!
4. Causes you to send it back to the person who sent it to you.
Who me?
5. Causes you to forget to attach the attachment.
Well, fooey!
6. Causes you to hit ' SEND ' before you've finished.
Oh no - not again!
7. Causes you to hit ' DELETE ' instead of ' SEND. '
And I just hate that!
8. Causes you to hit ' SEND ' when you should DELETE. '
Oh Crap!!! !
IT IS CALLED THE C-NILE VIRUS ! !

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Some Good News for a Change!

I had great computer guy in Portland who would come to my house to work on my computer whenever I needed work done. I emailed him to see if he knew anyone he could recommend here in Seattle. He didn't, but he did tell me about Angies list. So, I went online, found her list, joined, specified what I needed and promptly recieved two and a half pages of recommended, A rating computer people and how many miles they were from our house. I called the one at the top of the list whose place is just over three miles away. But that's just the beginning -- I called her, got her on the line, answered all her questions about what was needed and I asked her how much she charged. It all came down to this: she's coming to the house at 10 AM on New Years Day! I guess sometimes a crappy economy can work in our favor! Anyway, I liked the way she sounded and hopefully I'll get everything taken care of and someone I can call again if I have a need.

So,I'm set! The New Year is looking better already!

What a Way to Start the New Year!

First of all the bad weather here forced my son and daughter to have to cancel their trip here for Christmas -- Adam and I will be eating a LOT of turkey over the next week! They're planning now on being here for Mother's Day so I'll start crossing my fingers right away!

Secondly, my computer seems to have acquired a virus and it is a real pain to try and do anything. So, today -- if they're open! I'll be taking it in to get fixed. Of course this means I may be without a computer for several days -- hopefully, no longer, but then my luck hasn't been the best lately!

I've prepared a Ruby Tuesday to post automatically and if I can get the computer's cooperation, I hope to do a My World post as well -- we'll see.

So, until then I hope you're getting ready to welcome the New Year!

Slowly But Surely

It'll take some more time, but I'm slowly getting this new blogsite at least resembling the original. This has been such a pain in the butt that I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy -- even if I had one -- well I might wish it on McCain and Bush, but then they probably can't even use a computer anyway.

But I have to stop for a while -- I actually do have other things to do in my life and that's a good thing -- a few more days like yesterday and I'd be a blithering idiot! So I'm off to Tai Chi class and then after lunch I'm off to work with a children's art class.

The sun is shining and it's a beautiful day here in the northwest.

Again, thank you for helping me get this mess cleaned up, for your encouragement and good thoughts! Lots of hugs to you all!