Thursday, September 24, 2009

The Challenged Laptop




OMG, I am so livid. I just wrote this whole blog, just to have it disappear. I was already having computer issues but this just about makes me want to shove something up this laptops proverbial USB port.First of all I keep getting these messages that it can't find the page. What do you mean you can't find the page? All that memory you've got and you can't put one foot in front of another? We were just there. What do computers get Alzheimers? Does this mean I'm going to have to put it in some kind of laptop home for the elderly and pay a monthly fee? I'd rather just pat it on its little screen and say "Don't worry, little buddy, its going to be ok" and then POW, lights out. Ralph Kramden would have understood. What do you mean I can't pour water on a laptop? I thought that's what you always used on a big bowl of Act Right.And then there's another issue. I'm five sentences into my paragraph and all of a sudden its back 3. and what should have been "abcdefghijklmnopqrstu" now looks like dlwspom#sl;#ddedlas". What the hell is that all about. My laptop feels the sudden urge to visit old friends? Its paragraphically challenged? Once again I begin to reminisce. Remember when I brought you home from the store and you weighed only 8lbs 3 oz, you were so little and cute, POW well your'e all grown up so take it like a man.And now there's the issue of typing 2 hours worth of blog just to have it disappear into "where did it go land "? I'm having a hard time with being kind to computers on Thursdays. So I'm going to give it one more chance to get things right. This morning I was toggling back and forth between several internet addresses and suddenly I'm looking at 243 friends that I've never seen before. And it certainly looks like me, but I'm sure my name isn't Peter. Poor Peter. He's just fallen victim to a woman with computer rage. Do I want to edit his top friends, paint his profile PINK or write his blogs? Peters out there somewhere and hes really pissed.So in order to give this technologically challenged piece of machinery another chance I'm going to check out a friends site because he's always posting one survey or another and hell why not? If you don't know me, let me answer a survey or two and you'll know more than you ever cared to.So that's it, that's all I have for today. However, may this serve as a reminder not to put me on the internet freeway with any other challenged laptop. She bows, she curtsies.