TwitterFeb 16 2010
Mac Mouses, Desk tops, Lap tops, and missing a missing CD . . .
Okay, there are times in life when you begin to think, “Are you kidding?” Days like yesterday and today:
Yesterday:
1) My lap top is dying a slow, painful death. This I discovered yesterday. When it wouldn’t turn on. Nothing worked 
2) Then yesterday my mouse for my Mac up and squeeked it’s last squeek. So getting on the internet or anything for that mattter wasn’t happening.
SOOOOOO, last night I went to bed. Early. At 10:o0. I just plum gave up. I was sleepy anyway, I had worked allllll day, while I did I apartment hunted with Blessing, my oldest daughter, with the little boy I was watching, and had only gotten home around 8:30, however it bugged me that I didn’t get to blog.
TODAY:
Worked 9-4. Appointment for myself and Zach with my Naturopathic Spiritiual Intuitive/Life Couch. Then back to my kids home to hang out with them for awhile. Then home to try to work.
1) The laptop started up tonight. But won’t allow me to get on the internet, even though it shows a wireless signal. Not only that, a seriously important folder is missing. God only knew where it went. Till I searched around for, ohhhh, an hour plus. I have no idea why but it’s in the shared area. I think it was the shared area. Not sure anymore. Well, anyway. I didn’t need the folder because it was backed up on a flash drive, but I did want the six page document I’ve been writing and rewriting for the last week. I was able to print it off thankfully and save it back to the laptop’s hard drive, but not onto the flash drive. But I have it at least!
2) I have another desk top but here’s the thing, it has been left in the barren waste land for months as it needs me to add the software protection thingy I bought from Microsoft. I put it on my lap top first in August. Went to put it on my desk top and hit a snag. Have you ever tied to get help from Microsoft? If you have you’ll realize that it is typically a lengthy process just to find the number. If you find it. So since all this snagging occurred right when I got my new Mac, I left it. And it hasn’t been turned on in months.
Till today.
Today I needed it.
Today I sighed heavily and dove into getting the Live One Care onto it…
Two hours later, reading through eyes that were begging for sleep, and much reading and clicking, and trying to find a product key and on and on and on I discover that they won’t let me do add my computer. BUT they now offer a free virus protection product. A free one! I paid fifty bucks six months ago. So as we speak it’s loading in the back ground. I just checked and it’s doing it’s first scan. Wonder what it’ll find?? Since I was on the internet for two hours unprotected…
TRIUMPH:
Tonight, I found “the missing disk”. “The disk “I searched high and low for last week. I do believe I mentioned this back then. The day I created CD imprints and went to print them and even though the system showed that the entire software package is loaded, it didn’t recognize the printer. After much fiddling with it I decided to uninstall and reinstall. Wellllll, that’s when the search began. A search I thought would take all of a minute, because I have a box specific to my computer software things. However it wasn’t in there. I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles that reached to the sky I put it in there. But nopt, not there. So I searched and I searched and then I just quit. Tonight, it occured to me. It was in the CD drawer of my old, unused desktop–the one that needs the virus softward–I popped open the drawer and viola! There it was. So all the tedidum of trying to get the software on to it paid off.
Night, Love ya,
Theresa Jane
- who is seriously looking forward to the day I can afford to hire a tech guy and let him/her work on all this “stuff” for me
My upstairs bathroom is a wreck. The hot water tap on the bathtub drips, I’m going to need to call a plumber to fix it, as well as the wood around the toilet is rotting, and the cold water tap no longer works on my sink, so I think the pipes are overall failing, who knows how much new flooring and new pipes is gonna cost…
My roof needs a new set of shingles but I think the wood there is rotting also.. I think squirrels have made a home up there in my attic. The oven also recently blew, so we have no oven.
I paid $1000 for wood for this year. Way cheaper than the 1600 we were paying for natural gas.. After paying for a wood stove, the pipe got clogged at the top by the damned cap that’s supposed to save it from extra problems – well it didn’t. So until it got warm enough to check what was going on, we used space heaters. I got a 323 dollar speeding ticket, my internet bill for the year came up to over 400 dollars (still a good deal but damn bad timing), and my electricity bill was 864 dollars. Apparently I used 400 dollars worth of electricity, the rest is extra charges and taxes. I have 10 grand worth of debt on this house and my insurance company still thinks my grandmother lives here, even though I’ve told them she doesn’t. I just know that’s a battle on the horizon.
I think I win.
I know it’s not about winning. Still, I think you can cope with the junk you have to deal with. Remember someone’s always more worse off than you are.
I dislike those kinds of problems intensely, so I feel for you! That’s why I keep minimum software on my computers, and keep all the docs backed-up at remote servers (such as the blog).
You might consider getting some sort of Netbook as an emergency back-up computer. They only cost a couple hundred, and they are optimized for internet and email. It’s what people who travel constantly for business use. A netbook, blackberry/smartphone or now Mac tablet, becomes your portal rather than a repository for your stuff. It’s more like a telephone than a desk with drawers you can lose things in.
(I’ve been writing about wrestling with dragons and the symbolism involved.)
Well, Jacob I do believe you win, by a long shot.
BTW nice to meet you I’m glad this post inspired the competition in ya so that you left me a message 
A lot of what I write about tends to be a journal of my day. Ergo, the post. Plus my blog is also my daily journey on my way to being successful entrepreneur business woman. So another ergo… that’s what happened that day, so that’s what I wrote about… Not to mention that that day I just didn’t want to deal with the techical issues.
Speaking of squirrels. Years agao I was in a house that had squirrels in the attic and the buggers chewed a hole through the celing in the kitchen. I remember going into the kitchen in the morning and freaking out wondering if there was a squirrel in my house. Thankfully there wasn’t. They were a nusience in that house all the time. So I hope you can get rid of them soon. As well as get a new stove, new pipes, flooring, new shingles, and get your grandmother off your insurance policy!!!
Good luckand comment to me again!
Theresa Jane
I’m thinking I’m going to have to get a net book just to replace my lap top. However that is a great idea for a back-up. I have a My Book for back up for my Mac and use flashdrives for my other computers: the lap top and reg. desk top. The problem came when I got lazy and didn’t plug in my flash drive to back up my most recent work that I ha to spend time finding where the computer put it. I really think my days are number with my lap top. My pat experience has been, once they’re past three years old and begin doing odd things with files and so forth it’s time to watch for a sale. But this time I don’t have the cash for a full fledged lap top. Such is life.
Theresa Jane
Thanks for the advice. I haven’t talked to my insurance company yet, and I’ve realized why. I really don’t want to get angry and I know that they’ll anger me. I don’t like feeling that way.
Your experience makes me laugh. Not the recent kidney things though.. that’s not nice.
As for your laptop wanting to get replaced, after 3 years, even a bottom of the line, cheapo will still have at LEAST the same performance, if not greater, than the one you bought – assuming you bought one that’s middle of the road 3 years ago. Net books are pretty good, and I’d recommend the intel Atom. It’s the best out there so far. Power requirements are insanely low (I think their worst uses 5 watts of power) and still is pretty powerful. The screen size may be smaller than you’re used to but I have a hard time seeing those babies overheat on you – especially if you’re just doing word processing, excel, etc. Consider maybe you need to simply do a fresh re-install of your windows operating system on your computer. I know my friend who uses computers every day says every 6 months he re-installs windows just to keep it running smoothly. I can get by with 3-5 years with proper care, and so can you. I’d first recommend trying a fresh re-install of windows which will reset all the settings (which generally means all data on your computer will be erased, so back up first!). Check the cd’s that come with your laptop to see if they can help you with that.
Go ahead and pop me an email or add me to msn if you’d like. It’s kinda good you identify who you are though cause if you don’t I’ll just assume you’re some spammer or nigerian scammer (I know people that have that problem, they refuse to admit it, lol) .. Still, I have my fun with them when I can. I figure it’s only fair since people like that have given other people SO much heartache, at least someone can maybe cause them a little confusion or being upset. Anyway the start of the paragraph says msn or email is cause if I’m not regularly (every day) at your site, I will forget to come back.
Newegg.com is pretty good for prices as far as I know, for the US.
Thank for this information, I will be putting it to use. Just as soon as I have some time where I can use it to put my lap top through the process.
Theresa Jane