I T professionals..I am having the last laugh.. (969 hits)
Hey family, what's good? I have been AWOL for approximately 27 days as I battled with my computer. It all began when on this site I went to reply to a comment as an e-mail. Because the Connect Platform were obviously stopping us from cross blogging, if you are not a member of the site that the blogger is on..i.e. I am on BWC..but someone on BIA comments on a blog- then a feature came up that said."he/she is not a member of Black Women Connect" , if you tried to contact the profile , to respond by e-mail by clicking on their picture. When I hit the back browser it "froze." It also happened on another computer in the house. But it caused no havoc with that computer.
Yes the site is unstable at times, as they work on it. That lead me into the "I can fix it mode." 27 days later, I have been in all diagnostic "software and hardware" environments of Microsoft.
I have been in exe. dll. files areas that we "non phi non" are not supposed to be in..but I didn't care, not to be daunted..I pressed on, couldn't dowload moving video, for sure no blogging, media pics took forever to download, it was a virtual nightmare.
..And here I am, triumphant. A few times, everything worked..about 4 times!! then back to the same ol' same ol. I am NOT an IT person. I took Intro to Computer science in 1980 and when they started on that "binary numbers" stuff I dropped the course like it was hot!!
But this is what I want to share, common sense, as I told my 23-year-old son, CEO of his own IT company-- "old fashioned" will ALWAYS work. He didn't want to help me because he said my computer was "old" and to throw it away..{it's a Win dows NT 2005} Meanwhile he started with a $6,000.00 dollar computer courtesy of his grandma through my good graces..I refused to give up .
The worst case scenario would be a total crash..and I'd have to buy a new computer anyway..the best case, I 'd come out mighty smug about my ability to trouble shoot my own computer..Life lesson learned..I am intelligent, I am determined, I am capable. In the end only we are responsible for our failures and our successes!
P.S. Big props to my girl Ajuba, for turning me on to msconfig!! in the pix at the Tina Turner concert! She is one of my angels!!
LOL--i'm begging this dinosaur every time i sign on to don't fail me now. soooooo much drama and i know alll about life with no IT knowledge and hopes....until your dinosaur crashes.
it's like a baby, you know. i just can't trash it bc it's sick. come on, now...it's been with me since 2004 and its a 2000 so why do everytime i call for tech support, folks laugh and pass me through to timbuktu? i got feelings. i dont like folks telling me my baby is ugly and i should abandon it.
instead, we talk and we believe in each other. i send it love notes and it loves me back.....we forgive each other and grow from our mistakes. i have a ton of love notes explaining how to troubleshoot with tlc and I'm wiser from the relationship, too. but i don't like the way my dinosaurs threatens to tell all my late-night secrets every time i accuse it of not being there for me.....sooooo
BTW: I'm filing DIVORCE papers right around tax refund time unless Mr. Obama gives us a tax rebate beforehand. It will be ugly between my pc and me...i know we both will be hurt but the separation will do us good in the long run.:)- Posted Sunday, December 14th 2008 at 10:25AM
I contemplated a divorce too.,lol..but the idea of this machine being smarter than I was too much of a challenge to pass up!!
Sunday, December 14th 2008 at 4:31PM
Marta Fernandez
