Have you ever gone into withdrawal? Maybe from trying to quit smoking - or drinking - or drugs - even dieting - whatever, and the stress from trying to give up something that was a big part of you really just about did you in?
That happened to me today.
I went into withdrawal from about 2 a.m. Monday morning until almost 7 p.m. Monday evening.
The cause - my computer was sick! So sick, that I couldn't get into anything, much less get online. Couldn't check my e-mail or read my favorite blogs or just surf. Sure as heck couldn't write a post either for my blog. Heck, I couldn't even get it to open enough to even play solitaire.
And, let me tell you this - I was lost! Like a little kid, separated in a store from Mommy dearest. Geez, I was like a fish out of water! Yes, it was THAT bad!
My problems began last night - about this time - when just out of the blue, the computer shut down on me and from then on, it wouldn't let me do anything. Just went into a loop as it tried to boot up again and again but something was blocking it. I could hardly wait till 10 a.m. when the computer shop opened for business Monday morning and was probably the first caller of the day there too! The owner tried to walk me through re-installing XP but it kept failing. Finally, he said he was sending his "techie" down to pick up the computer, take it to the shop and get it fixed there for once and for all!
About 1 p.m., Matt - the techie - showed up and bundled up my baby, almost as lovingly as I would have done had I been the one carrying it out to the vehicle waiting to take it to the computer hospital. And, about 4 hours later, the shop owner called to tell me he had it all operational again but just one small problem. When they re-installed XP, it wiped out all the information I had on it since I purchased it not quite three weeks ago! Even though when he tried to re-install XP, he had selected for it to remember files and folders, etc., it just zipped on by that command and erased my e-mail files, the software I had carefully installed and took with it one word document I had begun for my 1964 newspaper research collection.
It was about 6 p.m. when the shop owner's wife stopped by the house with my computer. She hooked it all up and I could hardly contain myself to log in to the internet, get my e-mail up and running and be off to the races again.
Thankfully, when I knew I was purchasing a new computer and that they wouldn't be able to transfer my e-mail over from the old one to this one, one of my blogger buddies had suggested I send e-mails from the old computer over to a webmail account and for once in my life, I listened to that directive. Boy, am I ever glad it did that too! I still am missing some e-mail addresses but was able to build a file from the e-mails I had shipped off to my g-mail account and then copy the address in from those messages to my address book. Thanks to Cariboo Ponderer for that piece of advice. It really worked great to have those e-mails to fall back on Vic.
Even so, it still took me from about 8 p.m. tonight until around 2 a.m. to get all those addresses copied in and nicknames, names, addresses all set up there!
So, I'm pretty beat tonight - my eyes are about worn out now too and I'm calling it a day and heading off to bed.
But, Tomcat - if you're reading this, please e-mail me because your address was one I didn't have when I got this computer so I had no record of it stored in my g-mail to re-add it in here tonight. There are a couple others whose e-mail addy I didn't have then too and I'm going to have to go into a search and destroy mode over the next couple of days now to track them down and get their addresses added too. But that's not near as hard to do as it would have been to try to find e-mail addresses for well over 100 people now is it?
SO - since I missed posting on Monday and here it is - already Tuesday - you get a double dose now of Bushisms so I am at least caught up in that department!
February 26, 2007
"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile." - Des Moines, Iowa; August 21, 2000
and
February 27, 2007
"I like the idea of people running for office. There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America. I don't know, I don't know if that will be their platform or not. But it's - I don't think so. I think people who generally run for office say, vote for me, I'm looking forward to fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table." - On elections in the Mideast; Washington, D.C.; March 16 , 2005
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Monday, February 12, 2007
Walking on the "Wild" Side
Thankfully, this weekend is now history! Not that there was anything really obnoxious that happened to me between Friday and this point in time, but it was not the calm, cool and collected two days I was really hoping for!
First off, today - or rather yesterday since it is now Monday as I write this -was my younger daughter's 31st birthday. In so many ways, she resembles her father A LOT so it is probably quite miraculous that she survived this many years as she has an attitude at times that is just LIKE her Dad's! But that has good things too in that although she may blow up quickly, really snap at people, once it is out, it is pretty much over and done with and life goes back to normal as if nothing ever happened. (Very different from her older sister who will carry - no actually nurse - big time - a grudge of YEARS!)
Well, I got Mandy two books -about two weeks ago - for her birthday gift -two by the author Jodi Picoult, who happens to be a favorite author for both my daughter and for me! So if anyone reading this wants a bold-faced suggestion of what to give me - or Mandy -We already have six of her books around here someplace but there are I think somewhere between 6-10 others we don't have. Just ask me if I've read a specific title of hers and I'll be happy to let you know if it's one we are missing!
Now, my older daughter decided that for her little sister's big birthday she would come up here Saturday and pick up the younger one's two little children and cart them off to spend Saturday afternoon and night and most of Sunday with her and her fiance. A nice gesture indeed since both Mandy and I would benefit from a much needed break from a 3-year-old and 10-month old - especially nice in the form of a good solid night's sleep!
However, you know that old saying -"The best laid plans of mice and men" - and with the older daughter, her best laid plans normally go awry with the timing aspect. And, true to form, that's what happened Saturday.
Initially, she was to work a couple hours in the morning for one or two clients she takes care of and be finished in time to be up here to pick up Maya and Kurtis between 11:30 and noonish. Now, since those times were "her estimations" I figured I'd be lucky if she got here by 1 p.m.
She called me about 12:30 saying she had a load of clothes in the washer and a load in the dryer and as soon as the one in the dryer finished up and the one in the washer was ready to be plunked into the dryer, she would be leaving to come get the kids. (It's at least a 45 minute drive from her place to ours too I must add here and that has to be configured into our time estimations although I don't think she ever uses that theory in her eta's.)
The time passed by and around 4 p.m., she phoned, spoke to my son-in-law and told him she was going to be leaving her place "shortly" and would be right up! After he hung up the phone, he made a prediction that she probably wouldn't arrive till at least 6 p.m. and it's a good thing I didn't bet any money there as he would have won! She got here about 6:15. I almost bit a hole through my tongue as it was really tempting to ask her if she had to wring out the clothes in the washer by hand and blow dry them as well as the other load she had in the dryer using her hair dryer! But, I was nice -quiet, ticked off but nice. And, since I had supper almost ready when she arrived, I told her to just sit down and have a bite to eat too because the granddaughter hadn't yet had supper and was hungry and she did that.
Now, the younger daughter had written a list of things the older daughter needed to know about the two kids -how much the baby generally ate, doseages of the cold meds to give both kids, a few other pointers, you know. And about a half hour after the elder left, she phoned us asking how to fix the formula for the baby as she had gone off and forgotten her little sister's list of instructions. Son-in-law told her the proportions of water to formula.
Roughly a half -hour after that call, she was on the horn again. This time, she was asking about what time did we usually start trying to get these two hooligans to go to bed. Now at that question, I just started to giggle. She informed me she was serious and wanted to know when to try and get them ready for bed and since I started laughing harder then, and she kept asking me that over and over, the more she asked, the harder I laughed! These two kids have NO SET BEDTIME! It is whenever you think, judging by their actions, that you can manage to get them to go to sleep!
After I quite laughing quite so hard, the elder one then asked about the formula -what brand did her sister buy for the baby because she apparently had neglected to pack any in his bag so the elder was going to have to go purchase some formula for him.
I told her just to get the generic brand as the younger says it all has to meet minimum nutritional standards so there really is no big difference but with the elder, things almost always have to be purchased according to "Brand names!" Why would anyone want to possibly save a bit of money by purchasing generic when you can get ripped off by getting a brand name of this, that or another thing! An argument then ensued between her and I over the name of the formula she should purchase and ended with her putting her fiance on the phone. And, to him, I virtually shouted that this was not blankety-blank rocket science here - just buy the blankety-blank generic formula and just get a can of the already mixed stuff too that way, she could get a container with enough to take him through one day (all he would need) as opposed to buying a 2 week supply of the powdered stuff!
So that was that issue -resolved in my mind at any rate.
Now, after a fairly decent night's sleep, I got up Sunday morning, found a cup of fresh hot coffee and settled in to do more work in downloading some software to my new computer. No big deal, but just a bit time consuming. I figured though I could get that done by 1 p.m. and then, get ready to run to Walmart and get a big grocery order as well as stopping by the nursing home near there where my almost 90-year-old aunt and her daughter are now patients.
Fat chance!
For openers, when I logged into my e-mail this morning, the screen went black - which scared me - although it was only for a couple seconds - and then, when my e-mail account opened for me, the colors on my screen got kind of squirrely looking - squiggly and just strange. Got through checking out my new e-mails and then moved over to read the local Sunday paper online. There I came across an article about people up in Minnesota someplace making the old-fashioned Swedish Potato Sausage and since a cousin of mine, her husband and several friends of their through their church make tons of this type of sausage for a special church dinner every fall - an Octoberfest type thing -I wanted to send them the url for this article as I figured they would enjoy it. But, when I tried to paste the url into an outgoing e-mail, it crashed my e-mail - not once, but twice! So, I ended up just forwarding the article directly from the website and wrote a plain e-mail note to them then as well.
That done, I decided my first order of business in downloading stuff was to put the Office Professional Suite programs on this computer. Ok, it's the 2000 version but the computer guy had said it would work with Windows Xp and I'd have no problems putting it on here. Boy, was he wrong! Big time! On the very first CD it bombed on me at about 65 percent of it being downloaded giving me an error message that Error 1305 involving a filename with a "font" in there was the issue and I was to verify that said file actually exists. Well, it doesn't!
So, I went to another little bit of a "help" tool here - the "program compatibility" thing and tried running the Office stuff again using the compatibility software to get it to work and no dice! So, as of tonight, I still don't have Office Professional installed here! I do however now have "Printmaster" and some Calendar making program plus a big Clip-art program installed though!
Ok, so I screwed away a good bit of valuable time when I should have been at Walmart but finally got out of the house and on my way about 3:30. I decided I would go to the Nursing Home first, then to Walmart.
At the nursing home, although my aunt looked good and was happy to see me, it was alarming to me at how her mind is really getting very, very foggy now. She recognized me right away so I thought that was a good sign but as it turned out, it was very deceptive. She couldn't remember now how old she is - she'll be 90 in April - and at my last visit there just before Christmas, she was reminding my daughter and I the whole time that she will be 90 this spring. Then, she didn't remember that there had been 10 children in her family and that she was the youngest of the ten! THat really scared me as most times her memory of her siblings is very good with the exception that she hasn't been able to remember what year this or that one died much of the time. She also told me she was hoping she would be able to go back home - something that no way is that going to happen -but she realized now she couldn't do that. However, her reasons why she couldn't do that were not reality based. She said it would be too hard because she would have no money and wouldn't be able to get a job because she had been away from working for too long. The latter part there is true -she has been retired from teaching for about 28 years now, but she would have money as she has her retirement, social security from her husband, plus social security disability payments for her daughter who is severely mentally and physically challenged. But she apparently has forgotten about having that income.
For me to see her mental state has regressed this quickly in about 5-6 weeks time span is really frightening as well as extremely sad. It was hard enough to watch her struggling at home before things were forced on her to go into the nursing home last August but at least, the senility factors though present weren't quite as rampant as they appear to be now. There were a few other things we discussed while there in which I could see the senility popping up more too but I tried to make the best of it while there with her. At least today she wasn't angry about her circumstances and didn't have the mean look in her eyes that she had when Mandy and I were there before Christmas. Some little thing to be thankful for there you know.
Then, it was off to Walmart where I spent way too much time and maybe a bit more money that I had anticipated dropping there but hey, I found some good buys and figured it was best to take advantage of them now! I got myself a new pair of shoes -much needed casual slipon type - three nice thick bathtowels on sale for $3.50 each and you know, you can't beat a price that low! I also splurged on a new crockpot too - a 5 quart sized one -very pretty design on it too along with a smallish three-drawer plastic storage stand to help me clear out some of the rubble on this desk and get it somewhat organized. And - I also bought a corkboard type bulletin board which I plan to put up on the wall beside my computer so I can post notes to myself there about various traits, events, etc., pertaining to characters in the novel a small group of 6-8 other bloggers and myself are involved in writing online!
Oh yes, and I did buy groceries too!
Home - unloaded the van, put the groceries away, at a bite of supper that my son-in-law had been kind enough to cook and off to the computer to check e-mail, try to get some work done here and then, I ran into yet another computer problem!
I went to print out one particular e-mail for my daughter and stepgranddaughter which had the practice schedule for the next two weeks for the step-granddaughter to follow for the school play she is participating in and geez, don't ya just know when I hit the print button, I got a message that I had no printer!
Now, where the hell did that printer go anyway? It was there yesterday - working fine and dandy and I hadn't messed with the printer programs at all since Dave reinstalled the printer for me on Friday! So, I had to uninstall the printer - which is actually a printer/copier/scanner all in one - and reinstall it. And to do that, you have to completely disconnect the darned thing, partially install the software, then reconnect the unit to the computer and plug it in and then let the program finish installing it. Thankfully, it went smoothly because I really wasn't in the mood then to fight with the computer any more!
And now - it is roughly 2:30 in the morning and I still have not gotten around to doing the Sunday crossword puzzle -which, if I don't have the paper by 8 p.m. at the latest on Sunday and playing with the crossword puzzle, I tend to go into a withdrawal almost as severe as I would if I didn't have the computer to play with for a couple of hours!
So, that's the report on my lovely weekend and now, I'm heading to the dining room to dig out the crossword puzzle and see how much of it I can fill in today before I get totally stumped. I won't be bothering tonight though to dig out my two big fat crossword puzzle dictionaries and my thesarus either for that matter as I am just too darned tired tonight to go to that much trouble!
Night All!
First off, today - or rather yesterday since it is now Monday as I write this -was my younger daughter's 31st birthday. In so many ways, she resembles her father A LOT so it is probably quite miraculous that she survived this many years as she has an attitude at times that is just LIKE her Dad's! But that has good things too in that although she may blow up quickly, really snap at people, once it is out, it is pretty much over and done with and life goes back to normal as if nothing ever happened. (Very different from her older sister who will carry - no actually nurse - big time - a grudge of YEARS!)
Well, I got Mandy two books -about two weeks ago - for her birthday gift -two by the author Jodi Picoult, who happens to be a favorite author for both my daughter and for me! So if anyone reading this wants a bold-faced suggestion of what to give me - or Mandy -We already have six of her books around here someplace but there are I think somewhere between 6-10 others we don't have. Just ask me if I've read a specific title of hers and I'll be happy to let you know if it's one we are missing!
Now, my older daughter decided that for her little sister's big birthday she would come up here Saturday and pick up the younger one's two little children and cart them off to spend Saturday afternoon and night and most of Sunday with her and her fiance. A nice gesture indeed since both Mandy and I would benefit from a much needed break from a 3-year-old and 10-month old - especially nice in the form of a good solid night's sleep!
However, you know that old saying -"The best laid plans of mice and men" - and with the older daughter, her best laid plans normally go awry with the timing aspect. And, true to form, that's what happened Saturday.
Initially, she was to work a couple hours in the morning for one or two clients she takes care of and be finished in time to be up here to pick up Maya and Kurtis between 11:30 and noonish. Now, since those times were "her estimations" I figured I'd be lucky if she got here by 1 p.m.
She called me about 12:30 saying she had a load of clothes in the washer and a load in the dryer and as soon as the one in the dryer finished up and the one in the washer was ready to be plunked into the dryer, she would be leaving to come get the kids. (It's at least a 45 minute drive from her place to ours too I must add here and that has to be configured into our time estimations although I don't think she ever uses that theory in her eta's.)
The time passed by and around 4 p.m., she phoned, spoke to my son-in-law and told him she was going to be leaving her place "shortly" and would be right up! After he hung up the phone, he made a prediction that she probably wouldn't arrive till at least 6 p.m. and it's a good thing I didn't bet any money there as he would have won! She got here about 6:15. I almost bit a hole through my tongue as it was really tempting to ask her if she had to wring out the clothes in the washer by hand and blow dry them as well as the other load she had in the dryer using her hair dryer! But, I was nice -quiet, ticked off but nice. And, since I had supper almost ready when she arrived, I told her to just sit down and have a bite to eat too because the granddaughter hadn't yet had supper and was hungry and she did that.
Now, the younger daughter had written a list of things the older daughter needed to know about the two kids -how much the baby generally ate, doseages of the cold meds to give both kids, a few other pointers, you know. And about a half hour after the elder left, she phoned us asking how to fix the formula for the baby as she had gone off and forgotten her little sister's list of instructions. Son-in-law told her the proportions of water to formula.
Roughly a half -hour after that call, she was on the horn again. This time, she was asking about what time did we usually start trying to get these two hooligans to go to bed. Now at that question, I just started to giggle. She informed me she was serious and wanted to know when to try and get them ready for bed and since I started laughing harder then, and she kept asking me that over and over, the more she asked, the harder I laughed! These two kids have NO SET BEDTIME! It is whenever you think, judging by their actions, that you can manage to get them to go to sleep!
After I quite laughing quite so hard, the elder one then asked about the formula -what brand did her sister buy for the baby because she apparently had neglected to pack any in his bag so the elder was going to have to go purchase some formula for him.
I told her just to get the generic brand as the younger says it all has to meet minimum nutritional standards so there really is no big difference but with the elder, things almost always have to be purchased according to "Brand names!" Why would anyone want to possibly save a bit of money by purchasing generic when you can get ripped off by getting a brand name of this, that or another thing! An argument then ensued between her and I over the name of the formula she should purchase and ended with her putting her fiance on the phone. And, to him, I virtually shouted that this was not blankety-blank rocket science here - just buy the blankety-blank generic formula and just get a can of the already mixed stuff too that way, she could get a container with enough to take him through one day (all he would need) as opposed to buying a 2 week supply of the powdered stuff!
So that was that issue -resolved in my mind at any rate.
Now, after a fairly decent night's sleep, I got up Sunday morning, found a cup of fresh hot coffee and settled in to do more work in downloading some software to my new computer. No big deal, but just a bit time consuming. I figured though I could get that done by 1 p.m. and then, get ready to run to Walmart and get a big grocery order as well as stopping by the nursing home near there where my almost 90-year-old aunt and her daughter are now patients.
Fat chance!
For openers, when I logged into my e-mail this morning, the screen went black - which scared me - although it was only for a couple seconds - and then, when my e-mail account opened for me, the colors on my screen got kind of squirrely looking - squiggly and just strange. Got through checking out my new e-mails and then moved over to read the local Sunday paper online. There I came across an article about people up in Minnesota someplace making the old-fashioned Swedish Potato Sausage and since a cousin of mine, her husband and several friends of their through their church make tons of this type of sausage for a special church dinner every fall - an Octoberfest type thing -I wanted to send them the url for this article as I figured they would enjoy it. But, when I tried to paste the url into an outgoing e-mail, it crashed my e-mail - not once, but twice! So, I ended up just forwarding the article directly from the website and wrote a plain e-mail note to them then as well.
That done, I decided my first order of business in downloading stuff was to put the Office Professional Suite programs on this computer. Ok, it's the 2000 version but the computer guy had said it would work with Windows Xp and I'd have no problems putting it on here. Boy, was he wrong! Big time! On the very first CD it bombed on me at about 65 percent of it being downloaded giving me an error message that Error 1305 involving a filename with a "font" in there was the issue and I was to verify that said file actually exists. Well, it doesn't!
So, I went to another little bit of a "help" tool here - the "program compatibility" thing and tried running the Office stuff again using the compatibility software to get it to work and no dice! So, as of tonight, I still don't have Office Professional installed here! I do however now have "Printmaster" and some Calendar making program plus a big Clip-art program installed though!
Ok, so I screwed away a good bit of valuable time when I should have been at Walmart but finally got out of the house and on my way about 3:30. I decided I would go to the Nursing Home first, then to Walmart.
At the nursing home, although my aunt looked good and was happy to see me, it was alarming to me at how her mind is really getting very, very foggy now. She recognized me right away so I thought that was a good sign but as it turned out, it was very deceptive. She couldn't remember now how old she is - she'll be 90 in April - and at my last visit there just before Christmas, she was reminding my daughter and I the whole time that she will be 90 this spring. Then, she didn't remember that there had been 10 children in her family and that she was the youngest of the ten! THat really scared me as most times her memory of her siblings is very good with the exception that she hasn't been able to remember what year this or that one died much of the time. She also told me she was hoping she would be able to go back home - something that no way is that going to happen -but she realized now she couldn't do that. However, her reasons why she couldn't do that were not reality based. She said it would be too hard because she would have no money and wouldn't be able to get a job because she had been away from working for too long. The latter part there is true -she has been retired from teaching for about 28 years now, but she would have money as she has her retirement, social security from her husband, plus social security disability payments for her daughter who is severely mentally and physically challenged. But she apparently has forgotten about having that income.
For me to see her mental state has regressed this quickly in about 5-6 weeks time span is really frightening as well as extremely sad. It was hard enough to watch her struggling at home before things were forced on her to go into the nursing home last August but at least, the senility factors though present weren't quite as rampant as they appear to be now. There were a few other things we discussed while there in which I could see the senility popping up more too but I tried to make the best of it while there with her. At least today she wasn't angry about her circumstances and didn't have the mean look in her eyes that she had when Mandy and I were there before Christmas. Some little thing to be thankful for there you know.
Then, it was off to Walmart where I spent way too much time and maybe a bit more money that I had anticipated dropping there but hey, I found some good buys and figured it was best to take advantage of them now! I got myself a new pair of shoes -much needed casual slipon type - three nice thick bathtowels on sale for $3.50 each and you know, you can't beat a price that low! I also splurged on a new crockpot too - a 5 quart sized one -very pretty design on it too along with a smallish three-drawer plastic storage stand to help me clear out some of the rubble on this desk and get it somewhat organized. And - I also bought a corkboard type bulletin board which I plan to put up on the wall beside my computer so I can post notes to myself there about various traits, events, etc., pertaining to characters in the novel a small group of 6-8 other bloggers and myself are involved in writing online!
Oh yes, and I did buy groceries too!
Home - unloaded the van, put the groceries away, at a bite of supper that my son-in-law had been kind enough to cook and off to the computer to check e-mail, try to get some work done here and then, I ran into yet another computer problem!
I went to print out one particular e-mail for my daughter and stepgranddaughter which had the practice schedule for the next two weeks for the step-granddaughter to follow for the school play she is participating in and geez, don't ya just know when I hit the print button, I got a message that I had no printer!
Now, where the hell did that printer go anyway? It was there yesterday - working fine and dandy and I hadn't messed with the printer programs at all since Dave reinstalled the printer for me on Friday! So, I had to uninstall the printer - which is actually a printer/copier/scanner all in one - and reinstall it. And to do that, you have to completely disconnect the darned thing, partially install the software, then reconnect the unit to the computer and plug it in and then let the program finish installing it. Thankfully, it went smoothly because I really wasn't in the mood then to fight with the computer any more!
And now - it is roughly 2:30 in the morning and I still have not gotten around to doing the Sunday crossword puzzle -which, if I don't have the paper by 8 p.m. at the latest on Sunday and playing with the crossword puzzle, I tend to go into a withdrawal almost as severe as I would if I didn't have the computer to play with for a couple of hours!
So, that's the report on my lovely weekend and now, I'm heading to the dining room to dig out the crossword puzzle and see how much of it I can fill in today before I get totally stumped. I won't be bothering tonight though to dig out my two big fat crossword puzzle dictionaries and my thesarus either for that matter as I am just too darned tired tonight to go to that much trouble!
Night All!
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Mouse in the House
There's either a mouse in the house or bats in my belfry - or maybe both! I dunno, but something strange is going on here!
Earlier today, when I signed in via Internet Explorer 6.0, none of my things that are normally displayed in my sidebar would show up on my screen! But, if I closed IE and went and opened Firefox, my blog showed up with everything intact.
Which is why I posted the entry just below this one about "Confusion Central" because I sure was confused by the missing data when I tried to view my blog via the IE 6.0.
But, since I was able to work with the Firefox, at least I was satisfied I could still post, make corrections, whatever to my blog. And, after I made that earlier entry, I sat down, wrote a long e-mail letter, fed my grandson, talked on the phone to an old friend too for about an hour. Went back to my blog on firefox and surfed a little more then closed it. After that, I reopened my blog on IE and lo and behold, all my links and archives and my index of titles, profile, etc., are back within full view and also, when I scroll down to the bottom of the blog entries, everything that is supposed to be there is in there once again.
How the heck did this happen? I didn't change a thing while I was writing my other post or reading other blogs when I had it open in Firefox, so what happened to return my blog back to looking like its normal self again?
Now, I know programs get "bugs" in them from time to time. I know too, for a fact, we had a mouse here in the house, at least it was visiting over the Christmas holidays because I saw it scurry across the living room floor a couple of times and watched it go behind my bookcase by the fireplace to hide its little self. No one has said that they set a trap and caught anything as yet, so I am assuming the little fellow is still around here someplace.
I'm thinking though that maybe people who know me and have told me in the past, on several occasions too, that I must have "bats in my belfry" that quite possibly that is what has happened.
Yep! Evidently I am really going daft!
Earlier today, when I signed in via Internet Explorer 6.0, none of my things that are normally displayed in my sidebar would show up on my screen! But, if I closed IE and went and opened Firefox, my blog showed up with everything intact.
Which is why I posted the entry just below this one about "Confusion Central" because I sure was confused by the missing data when I tried to view my blog via the IE 6.0.
But, since I was able to work with the Firefox, at least I was satisfied I could still post, make corrections, whatever to my blog. And, after I made that earlier entry, I sat down, wrote a long e-mail letter, fed my grandson, talked on the phone to an old friend too for about an hour. Went back to my blog on firefox and surfed a little more then closed it. After that, I reopened my blog on IE and lo and behold, all my links and archives and my index of titles, profile, etc., are back within full view and also, when I scroll down to the bottom of the blog entries, everything that is supposed to be there is in there once again.
How the heck did this happen? I didn't change a thing while I was writing my other post or reading other blogs when I had it open in Firefox, so what happened to return my blog back to looking like its normal self again?
Now, I know programs get "bugs" in them from time to time. I know too, for a fact, we had a mouse here in the house, at least it was visiting over the Christmas holidays because I saw it scurry across the living room floor a couple of times and watched it go behind my bookcase by the fireplace to hide its little self. No one has said that they set a trap and caught anything as yet, so I am assuming the little fellow is still around here someplace.
I'm thinking though that maybe people who know me and have told me in the past, on several occasions too, that I must have "bats in my belfry" that quite possibly that is what has happened.
Yep! Evidently I am really going daft!
Confusion Central!
I know, when it comes to computers and such, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but something is going on here today with my computer and I am REALLY confused now!
Earlier today, after my anti-virus program had gone through it's normal, daily updating thing, I got a message that I would have to do a shut-down and restart, etc., for the updates today then to take effect. No problem. I ' m happy to oblige cause I want (and figure I need) all the anti-virus protection I can get -who doesn't? So I do that and when my computer finishes reloading everything, all of a sudden - without my clicking it on - my printer/scanner opens up for me. I have no clue what caused that to happen as I wasn't touching anything on the keyboard or the mouse - or anything remotely related to the computer at the time. It was just "doing its own thing" while I was reading today's paper.
Ok, didn't really think TOO much of that. Just closed it and proceeded to sign in to my provider and go on line.
From there, open the e-mail program, get that taken care of and off I went to my lovely blog. I decided to use the internet explorer to open and access my blog. Mainly because there were a couple people who had commented to a piece on my blog recently, whose blogs I had visited and liked very much and my intent was then to add their blogs to mine. You know, the nice thing to do; reciprocate and all that stuff.
Well, I open my blog and wait, it loads, says it is done but there is something missing!
The whole string of stuff that normally appears on my blog, down the right-hand side - the blog links I like, the index of recent articles, the archives, my profile and sitemeter - all missing!
My immediate reaction was to sit here, stare at that and mutter to myself, "WTF?"
I hit refresh and the same thing happened again. I scrolled down the postings showing only to see that the last posting showing up -I think it was from December 30th as it was one that I had done referencing a lot of stuff about my family trees - was not there in its entirety. Go figure. What's up with that?
Well, I decided to try another route then. I closed my IE and went over to Firefox and opened that up. From there, I opened my blog and presto magic, all the data was there - links, index, archives, profile and sitemeter plus, the last posting showing on that page was all there too! Every last word of it, in all its literary glory just a shining through!
Up until maybe a month ago now, I only had internet explorer 6.0 on my computer. I didn't see any need to put another browser on or switch to a different one and dump the IE. However, a lady who writes one of my favorite blogs - listed under my favorites column here - "remodeled" her blog a little while back and after she did that, IE wouldn't open her blog! Her husband also has a blog which I have listed under my links too, so I commented in a post to him that I couldn't open his wife's blog and they suggested that I add Firefox. So I did that, mainly to access that one blog! But, considering what's happening to my blog on the old IE today, it's evidently a good thing I did that or I wouldn't be here, posting this today maybe, would I?
So, what I'm wondering here is if there's any one reading this who understands computers, blogging stuff (especially problems), whatever - and can give me any idea as to why my blog doesn't open fully on the IE and what -if anything - I can do to correct that?
Now, in the meantime, I just got an e-mail from an old school-days friend whose first husband was a guy who grew up about 4 doors down the street from me but was killed in an automobile accident back in 1964 and I'm closing this piece tonight to go respond to her note!
So, Audrey Grace, if you're reading this before I get a letter composed and e-mailed back to you, you've got one coming!
At least I think so! I haven't noticed anything strange going on today with my e-mail program! Not yet, anyway!
Earlier today, after my anti-virus program had gone through it's normal, daily updating thing, I got a message that I would have to do a shut-down and restart, etc., for the updates today then to take effect. No problem. I ' m happy to oblige cause I want (and figure I need) all the anti-virus protection I can get -who doesn't? So I do that and when my computer finishes reloading everything, all of a sudden - without my clicking it on - my printer/scanner opens up for me. I have no clue what caused that to happen as I wasn't touching anything on the keyboard or the mouse - or anything remotely related to the computer at the time. It was just "doing its own thing" while I was reading today's paper.
Ok, didn't really think TOO much of that. Just closed it and proceeded to sign in to my provider and go on line.
From there, open the e-mail program, get that taken care of and off I went to my lovely blog. I decided to use the internet explorer to open and access my blog. Mainly because there were a couple people who had commented to a piece on my blog recently, whose blogs I had visited and liked very much and my intent was then to add their blogs to mine. You know, the nice thing to do; reciprocate and all that stuff.
Well, I open my blog and wait, it loads, says it is done but there is something missing!
The whole string of stuff that normally appears on my blog, down the right-hand side - the blog links I like, the index of recent articles, the archives, my profile and sitemeter - all missing!
My immediate reaction was to sit here, stare at that and mutter to myself, "WTF?"
I hit refresh and the same thing happened again. I scrolled down the postings showing only to see that the last posting showing up -I think it was from December 30th as it was one that I had done referencing a lot of stuff about my family trees - was not there in its entirety. Go figure. What's up with that?
Well, I decided to try another route then. I closed my IE and went over to Firefox and opened that up. From there, I opened my blog and presto magic, all the data was there - links, index, archives, profile and sitemeter plus, the last posting showing on that page was all there too! Every last word of it, in all its literary glory just a shining through!
Up until maybe a month ago now, I only had internet explorer 6.0 on my computer. I didn't see any need to put another browser on or switch to a different one and dump the IE. However, a lady who writes one of my favorite blogs - listed under my favorites column here - "remodeled" her blog a little while back and after she did that, IE wouldn't open her blog! Her husband also has a blog which I have listed under my links too, so I commented in a post to him that I couldn't open his wife's blog and they suggested that I add Firefox. So I did that, mainly to access that one blog! But, considering what's happening to my blog on the old IE today, it's evidently a good thing I did that or I wouldn't be here, posting this today maybe, would I?
So, what I'm wondering here is if there's any one reading this who understands computers, blogging stuff (especially problems), whatever - and can give me any idea as to why my blog doesn't open fully on the IE and what -if anything - I can do to correct that?
Now, in the meantime, I just got an e-mail from an old school-days friend whose first husband was a guy who grew up about 4 doors down the street from me but was killed in an automobile accident back in 1964 and I'm closing this piece tonight to go respond to her note!
So, Audrey Grace, if you're reading this before I get a letter composed and e-mailed back to you, you've got one coming!
At least I think so! I haven't noticed anything strange going on today with my e-mail program! Not yet, anyway!
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
ARRGH!!!
Dang! Here it is late afternoon already and once again, I am - as I was yesterday - running late in putting up my first blog posting for today! I did however manage a little while ago to read one of my favorite blogs and make a comment there, but was only able to get to one fav blog so far because today, instead of fighting with the internet provider, I've been fighting with the freaking computer!
Yes, my computer has determined today to be the day from Hell for me! I think some of the problems I was experiencing had to do with what the first rep from my ever-loving, obnoxious provider told me to do -had to do with deleting files from the one page on my internet tools, options page cause most of my issues today seemed to link back to that!
But for now, I am finally caught up - I think - with my e-mail. Gosh those people in the Writerslive Gang sure can post bunches and bunches of e-mail responses there!
I did however finally get a chance to talk to Teresa, the editor/publisher of the little paper here I do articles for from time to time. I think I got Mandy convinced too that she will remember to stop and try to pick up two copies of the WB Review for me also on her way back home from State College today! She's on vacation this week so to her, as long as it isn't snowing, freezing rain or any of that happy poppycock, she's happy to be ramming around all over the place! She also has Maya with her - left me here with the little guy - so that makes my life a little easier, overall today too! At least there has been no more destruction to the appearance of the living room all afternoon now with Maya out of the house!
Now, it is time for me to wander to the kitchen and start working on preparing supper for us. So, I'm gonna end this piece for right now.
Aren't you relieved to hear I am taking a break from blogging, e-mailing, etc., for a few minutes anyway?
Yes, my computer has determined today to be the day from Hell for me! I think some of the problems I was experiencing had to do with what the first rep from my ever-loving, obnoxious provider told me to do -had to do with deleting files from the one page on my internet tools, options page cause most of my issues today seemed to link back to that!
But for now, I am finally caught up - I think - with my e-mail. Gosh those people in the Writerslive Gang sure can post bunches and bunches of e-mail responses there!
I did however finally get a chance to talk to Teresa, the editor/publisher of the little paper here I do articles for from time to time. I think I got Mandy convinced too that she will remember to stop and try to pick up two copies of the WB Review for me also on her way back home from State College today! She's on vacation this week so to her, as long as it isn't snowing, freezing rain or any of that happy poppycock, she's happy to be ramming around all over the place! She also has Maya with her - left me here with the little guy - so that makes my life a little easier, overall today too! At least there has been no more destruction to the appearance of the living room all afternoon now with Maya out of the house!
Now, it is time for me to wander to the kitchen and start working on preparing supper for us. So, I'm gonna end this piece for right now.
Aren't you relieved to hear I am taking a break from blogging, e-mailing, etc., for a few minutes anyway?
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