Friday, July 29, 2005
Alone together, at last!
I’m so enjoying my new computer! I had a lot of chores to do first, after work last night, like break down all the boxes that the computer came in. Then there was all the Styrofoam-fitted stuff that I crumbled into bags and put into the garbage. I probably should have toted it all to work to use as box packing but I’m not quite that green. I’d have to carry the bags (although they were light-weight, of course!) for many blocks and then find somewhere to store them at work. It just seemed like far too much trouble.
I also had the ferrets outside while I cleaned their cage, did the garbage and recycling to be picked up tomorrow and cooked a dinner. Then, finally I sat down to play on my new computer and our phone line was dead! My son had left the phone off the hook and I had to scour the house looking for the phone. He seldom does anything like that. He must have been in a real hurry to get to work on time. Luckily the phone reconnected on its own (doesn’t always) and then I finally got to go online.
At first, of course, there were all sorts of intimidating set-up things to do with the computer. I hadn’t been feeling all that well yesterday and staring at the computer screen was making me feel even worse. I very seldom am sick, can usually manage to keep on doing all the things I need to do, take a few home-remedies, and start feeling better quickly. I’m just lucky that way. Although I’ve noticed that when I mention it, or brag about it—THAT’S when I really do get sick!
I did have an awesome day at work, though, meetings and phone calls and plenty of problem-solving—just what I like! At one point I laughed so hard at a client’s antics (after the phone conversation was done, of course) that I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Yep, people are pretty entertaining and interesting!
The one drawback to the new computer is that the screen can be read from across the room! (I have a very small house, remember?) That isn’t so good for blogging! Nobody in my real life reads my blog although a couple of them know about it. They don’t seem that interested in blogs after I didn’t give them an address to find “blue2going” Most people don’t really seem to know what blogs are and confuse them with chat rooms. Yuck, I’ve been in chat rooms a long time ago when we first got my old computer (back in 1995!). Even the better chat rooms on a particular topic drove me nuts with the {{{{{{huggies}}}}}} from everybody, to anyone they knew coming in—and people were coming and going constantly! Euwww, just euwwww, it was conversation-interrupting, sappy and just plain really annoying! I couldn’t stand it, came into the chat room for intelligent conversation not to see how “cute” I could be!
From my E-mail:
One-liners
1. The first Ten Commandments are the hardest.
2. People who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed.
3. An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
4. A word of advice...don't give it.
5. If we made it illegal, do you think more people would vote?
6. I am logged in...therefore, I am.
7. A journey of a hundred miles starts with an argument over how to load the car.
8. Justice is blind and in some cases...deaf and dumb.
9. To belittle is to be little.
10. When fear knocks at the door, and you answer, there will be no one there.
11. Poverty is a condition with but one advantage, it doesn't take much to improve your lot.
12. The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts.
13. Retire in Mexico. Sunny, affordable and no predatory reverse mortgages.
14. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
15. Management's job is to keep you too busy to look for other jobs.
16. Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
17. Why are lawyers not sworn to tell the truth like all the witnesses in a jury trial?
I don’t really get #10 but the rest are pretty funny. Have you ever been in a chat room? Like them? (yes, I know--admitting to chat room usage is kinda like admitting you like soaps or reality TV! Maybe "worse" because at least those two things are more current.)
I also had the ferrets outside while I cleaned their cage, did the garbage and recycling to be picked up tomorrow and cooked a dinner. Then, finally I sat down to play on my new computer and our phone line was dead! My son had left the phone off the hook and I had to scour the house looking for the phone. He seldom does anything like that. He must have been in a real hurry to get to work on time. Luckily the phone reconnected on its own (doesn’t always) and then I finally got to go online.
At first, of course, there were all sorts of intimidating set-up things to do with the computer. I hadn’t been feeling all that well yesterday and staring at the computer screen was making me feel even worse. I very seldom am sick, can usually manage to keep on doing all the things I need to do, take a few home-remedies, and start feeling better quickly. I’m just lucky that way. Although I’ve noticed that when I mention it, or brag about it—THAT’S when I really do get sick!
I did have an awesome day at work, though, meetings and phone calls and plenty of problem-solving—just what I like! At one point I laughed so hard at a client’s antics (after the phone conversation was done, of course) that I had tears streaming down my cheeks. Yep, people are pretty entertaining and interesting!
The one drawback to the new computer is that the screen can be read from across the room! (I have a very small house, remember?) That isn’t so good for blogging! Nobody in my real life reads my blog although a couple of them know about it. They don’t seem that interested in blogs after I didn’t give them an address to find “blue2going” Most people don’t really seem to know what blogs are and confuse them with chat rooms. Yuck, I’ve been in chat rooms a long time ago when we first got my old computer (back in 1995!). Even the better chat rooms on a particular topic drove me nuts with the {{{{{{huggies}}}}}} from everybody, to anyone they knew coming in—and people were coming and going constantly! Euwww, just euwwww, it was conversation-interrupting, sappy and just plain really annoying! I couldn’t stand it, came into the chat room for intelligent conversation not to see how “cute” I could be!
From my E-mail:
One-liners
1. The first Ten Commandments are the hardest.
2. People who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed.
3. An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
4. A word of advice...don't give it.
5. If we made it illegal, do you think more people would vote?
6. I am logged in...therefore, I am.
7. A journey of a hundred miles starts with an argument over how to load the car.
8. Justice is blind and in some cases...deaf and dumb.
9. To belittle is to be little.
10. When fear knocks at the door, and you answer, there will be no one there.
11. Poverty is a condition with but one advantage, it doesn't take much to improve your lot.
12. The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts.
13. Retire in Mexico. Sunny, affordable and no predatory reverse mortgages.
14. A pessimist is a man who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
15. Management's job is to keep you too busy to look for other jobs.
16. Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.
17. Why are lawyers not sworn to tell the truth like all the witnesses in a jury trial?
I don’t really get #10 but the rest are pretty funny. Have you ever been in a chat room? Like them? (yes, I know--admitting to chat room usage is kinda like admitting you like soaps or reality TV! Maybe "worse" because at least those two things are more current.)
