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:
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.
I would like to sympathize, but I also should take this opportunity to heckle you, while you cannot respond in kind. Wait for it!
Good luck with next week's reaming and cleaning. (Ahem, your computer I mean.)
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.
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.
Um, I had a computer.
Ah, the little pleasures in life, I'm enjoying corn beef and cabbage farts.
Have you thought about combining a surfboard and abacus?
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
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.
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
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