09th Aug 2002
A New Low for Me and Computers
Okay, I’m rested. I’ll try to keep the foul language to a minimum. But by this afternoon I really, really hate computers. I hate computers with the white-hot intensity of a thousand burning suns.
Briefly, for anyone who could possibly care, here’s the update since last night’s ravings: first thing this morning (or thereabouts) I called IBM again, got right through to a technician who walked me through the critical erase-everything-and-start-over-from-scratch phase of my computer troubleshooting. So over the last couple of hours I’ve gotten email set up reasonably again and made the sad discovery of the first of what will doubtless prove to be many things I stupidly neglected to back up: all my Outlook files (e.g., a year’s worth of bookmarks…). Oh well…
I still have many fun-filled hours of reconstructing my digital life in front of me, but here’s the really hilarious part (hilarious in the way that you have to laugh like you’re brain is about to exlode with insane fury): I still can’t print. You see, that’s hilarious because I have a ~300-page document that it’s critical I print in order to complete a client project by Monday morning (which still lots more work besides justing printing, of course), which has driven me finally to face the wipe-everything-and-reinstall-the-operating-system test phase of my months of troubleshooting this stupid printer problem (during which time I’ve kludgily made do simply emailing documents to my wife who graciously prints them at her unsuspecting workplace; unfortunately, she’s out of town at the moment), so that, after spending 15 of the last 23 hours starting reinstalling everything (and losing critical data and many necessary work hours in the process), the printer still doesn’t work. I mean, that’s like in-a-bell-tower-with-a-rifle funny!
Excuse me, I’m going to go to Circuit City and buy a new printer, and see if that might possibly help…
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