1. I break it.
2. I break it a lot.
3. I panic when I break it a lot.
4. When I panic I inundate my tech person with urgent emails.
5. When she doesn’t respond within 10 seconds I panic some more.
6. When I panic some more, I try to fix what I broke and break it worse.
7. I panic even more and fire off more urgent emails.
8. I begin to curse, a lot.
9. I send off more emails, most of them incoherent.
10. In a cursing, incoherent, panic-stricken, cast-clomping daze, I wander up and down the street and forget to pick up my dog at puppy camp.
Lesson learned. Next time smack my hand before I touch the computer.
It sounds like me. Hope things work out.
Oh god this is ME. YOU are ME
Happened again last week,
Andrew at Everett called
Mohinder at AOL called (hung up couldn’t understand a word the (American sub continent Indian) guy was saying
Radio goes ( walky talkie type) WHAT !!!! I scream, lighting a fag in the office (illegal)
Peter occasional tech guy called
Eventually remembered I had used an incorrect password on the router which apparently sends it into panic mode and shuts it down and reboots it (eventually)
OMG You are ME
xxxxx
Heeeeee! Next time, call me and I’ll talk you down from the ledge.
I find it very suspicious that I’ve never seen you and Tom at the same time in the same room. Extremely. Suspicious.
Hmmm…….
Good grief, what are you doing? I know my stuff isn’t the same as yours but…but…I haven’t managed to bust anything yet and I’m the queen of sticking my fingers in all the wrong places (get your mind out of the gutter). I must have dumbed my site down like crazy because I’m a tech moron and if I can’t mess it up, it’s only logical that there’s something wrong with it.
Heh. STAY AWAY from my website. I don’t need it broken any worse than it is right now! Of course, I don’t panic about it either. I just bar my office door and don’t let anyone in until I can jury-rig it…
If I didn’t have a demanding day job filled with people who are more inept with a computer than all of you put together could ever think of being…I’d respond a lot quicker. And really, she doesn’t break it much. She just loses the header image mostly. But I think I have a cure for that so I imagine this won’t happen again.
Looking on the bright side, whenever I have computer problems I tend to invent new words. Some of them are pretty good. Few are suitable for mixed company.
Dear Jaye - I curse in Arabic, a language which has very colorful curses and even if you don’t know I’m cursing, the words sound bad… I’d love to hear your invented words.
Lex you have saved my ass so many times! You are my AAA of website assistance! Is your cure to smack me?
I promise, Anny, I will never touch your stuff! Hey, Penny Romance is trying to reach you.
Barbara- obviously you are not a meddler. You must approach things logically and confidently. When it comes to tech stuff, I freak.
Um… hmmm, now Penny, you know that Tom and I are not really… hold on, gotta go out for a smoke… Cough Cough
Wait Tom, is that you or me? I think we share brain waves. Quite ghoulish!
Oh Amber, I hope you’re not as bad as me!
It sounds like you responded to technical issues in exactly the right way with panic, flight and irrational thoughts… That’s what I would do.
XXOO Kat
Catchy title, Julia.
When computer things go wrong for me, I grumble and moan and obsess until my husband takes my computer away and fixes things for me. Thus I maintain the impression that I wish to be independent without having to actually be independent.
Oh you are not alone..We all break our own site..LOL
That’s a relief, Savannah!
Hey, Marie - the funny thing is I have to show my husband how to use his settings, and once upon a time, I was the maintenance person for our desktop. But now it’s just too complicated for me. I just depend upon the kindness of strangers.
That’s right, Kat, irrational thoughts and behavior!
Thank you…I believe Penny and I have had a meeting of the minds…
You’re welcome, Anny! She loved the first book and desperately wanted the second.
I feel your pain……