Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Dag blog it!

Gosh darn it- my computer is fritzzed out! Caput! Fried up sir. Attacked by an army of trojans. And spaced out to the hilt!

I got my I.T. guy on it, but it's a doozy of a big daddy fry out and war and nowhere to put any more. And he has to get the pool closed for winter, so....I'm in the Q.

I'm going nuts over here without my blogging outlet, not to mention being unable to delete my e-mail spam.

So I went to the local township library. I couldn't log in, so I checked with the librarian. She said, ma'am you have $1.25 in unpaid fines. So I wrote a check. She said, ma'am we can only accept checks for $2.00 or more. So I wrote another check for $2.00- that's .75 more than what I owed. And do you know what I found out? You are not allowed to check e-mail on the library computers. They do not allow looking for postings on Craigslist either and they do not allow any blog reading on those library computers! For crying out loud, what on earth is a person supposed to use their 30 minute library login time doing? I asked the librarian. She said if I wanted to research marmots, for example, I could do that. I left with 28 minutes of login time remaining. That was my 75 cent experience for today.

I bellyached a bunch to I.T. He brought home his laptop and fixed the fried out router, so I could get online. My computer is still jammed and whammed, but life is fairly grand- if you don't count the bad haircut I got last Thursday or the tears I shed for ten hours on Sunday, because I missed my old life when kids lived here and the house wasn't so big and echo-y.

Fash loves her new four hours away college place. She loves her roommate, her dorm room, her classes, her professors, her on campus dishwashing job, the 1-1 football team and absolutely everything about it. And she was called back tonight for a second audition for a part in the fall play. She has no time to miss me, but we are in touch almost every day.

Hope to be back soon.

Heidi

11 comments:

Mari said...

Bummer about the computer and those library rules are crazy! Glad Fash is doing well!

Marnie said...

I'm sorry about your computer issues. Grrr!

Joyce said...

That library thing is crazy! Sorry about your computer woes...I'd be on the ceiling.

Glad your four hour away girl is loving life : )

Robin Lambright said...

I totally feel your pain! My laptop has been in laptop heaven for over six months now and the budget for a new one is just not happening! I have to fight with the DD for time at the desktop, but I will admit that I miss my laptop more than I thought I would.

Computers cant live with them but it _ _ _ _ with out them!

Blessings
R

sara said...

so sorry about your lap top!!

But let me encourage you in that you talk to Fash every day!! My son has called me TWO times since he left for college almost a month ago!!! He is too busy to miss me too....but also too busy to talk, email or even txt!! argh!

Mrs. E said...

I hate computer problems! Wow!! Your library is picky! So glad Fash is enjoying college! Keep us posted on the auditioning!!

Skoots1moM said...

praying you up for a new laptop...and so glad your daughter's enjoying college...my girl's enjoying it too...miss her friends though...get to see her this weekend ;)

Jewel said...

Goodness gracious lady, what a life! My computer is on the fritz and I'm trying to catch it before I lose it! Ahh!!! Of course I have no idea how to do that. I hope you get better access capabilities soon!

Anonymous said...

I feel your pain! I've been there and done that and it ain't no fun :-)

Jientje said...

Sorry about the computer trouble, I'd hate it too if it happened to me!
I'm glad Fash is doing so well, Heidi.

Jewel said...

I HATE computer problems AND I can't believe that library's computer policies! Good grief! I am at our local library now even as I type and they are liberal here! You can do most anything on their computers but porn! I'm serious! :-) Email, youtube, music, videos, FB,blogging, chat....it really is nice to be able to come and have such access to the web.