Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Tired of Updates? Well, Get Used To It.

In the face of mounting computer woes here at the home/business computer center, my ability to surf the Web has been cut back to the bare basics.  I can follow no links at all now.  If I try to comment on someone's blog, or say, post some pithy remark after being righteously indignated upon finishing some article, I get spanked back to the BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death).  All connections are cut and I have to start over.  Any remarks or thought I had begun forming into cohesive lumps of words that might make sense were lost.

I can post to my blog if I approach it just the right way.  But I have to be careful injecting images.  I can't upload from my computer anymore, I have to use my Web hoster Picassa.  That seems to work.  But try to visit someone and all I can do is lurk.

I could and probably will.......no I probably won't use the shop computer to drop in and say hey.  Once I hit the bike shop, all my internet time is spent chasing parts, bikes, etc.  When my day is done there, all I want to do is come home.  And I told myself I would not rob shop time for personal time.  At least try to keep it to a minimum.  And having just instituted this new policy, I am gung ho, assholes and elbows trying to impress myself with myself as I don my retailer hat and sell Sanford Maine the bike stuff they need.

My computer is scheduled for a thorough reaming and cleaning this next Monday.  Hopefully I will be back to my usual early AM slinking around your blog or the one next door.  I promise to wear pants.

Later......................................................

11 comments:

The Blog Fodder said...

When all else fails, format the C drive and start over. It is easier than starting a new life in a new country but only marginally so.

John Myste said...

I would like to sympathize, but I also should take this opportunity to heckle you, while you cannot respond in kind. Wait for it!

Tom Harper said...

Good luck with next week's reaming and cleaning. (Ahem, your computer I mean.)

BBC said...

When my computer got sick I went and bought a cheap ass E Machine with Win 7 on it for 300 bucks. I like it so I'm still using it.

Sea ya around.

susan said...

I had a computer die about 18 months ago and since we haven't watched tv in many years my need for a new one took precedence over expense. Good luck with the cleaning.

John Myste said...

Um, I had a computer.

BBC said...

Ah, the little pleasures in life, I'm enjoying corn beef and cabbage farts.

Randal Graves said...

Have you thought about combining a surfboard and abacus?

Demeur said...

And you wonder why people switch to a Mac.

In 16 years of using one only lost one file momentarily. When the power supply finally gave out on one machine I pulled the hard drive and transferred all the data to the new one. Took about ten minutes :-P

John Myste said...

I have to agree with Demeur on this one. If you choose a system that really doesn’t do anything, it never fails its mission. Where I used to work, Dave used to brag that his Mac never locks up during shutdown, something PC’s were famous for back then.

I was forced to explain to him that Apple had to get that part right, since it was the main function of a Mac.

okjimm said...

ya a Mac. I know virtually shit about computers.... I had an old used Dell that I finally broke... literally sat on.... a much more savvy guy gave me his 6 yr old Mac.... works great.... if I ever get up enough money to buy a new machine... it is definitely going to me a mac