We used to say “Geez, Lousie!” a lot around here but in the last year or two, it’s been shortened.
For the past week, my computer has been being an ass. Pop-ups in IE when I wasn’t even using it. No active desktop to be had. C++ error boxes flying up like bats. Little did I know that the poor girl was being eaten alive. Yes, a virus. Down to the root.
Today, on my way to class, I had to suck the tears back as my husband told me the news. He said that the computer was probably going to have to rebuilt and I should unplug it from the internet connection when I got home.
“You don’t understand!”, I whined. “It would be like if something was wrong with your C-A-R ! I need my computer!”
Yes, I was that dramatic. I was tired. I had stayed up until almost 2am watching “The Last King of Scotland“. (I told you that I don’t do dramas but this one I did and it was a brain scorching gem.) Back to the computer. My husband called our friend who set me up with these cool guys and after 2 hours on the phone, my sweet baby was saved!
Later, the exterminator came and knocked down all of my wasp nests. I could not help but squeal as I watched her (yes, her and yes, I watched but from inside the house) hit them with her sticky stick. Holy heck, that’s got to be a bad, bad, bad job.
Currently, I’m bug free inside and out and all is right with my little world. I’ll end this post with the brilliant way I ended my jazzericse class today:
“Get on all fours and when we’re done you can go home.”
Do you think that was a Freudian slip?
Louise!
In the days before MacJoy entered my life my old PC had a up one hour crash the next philosophy that made me feel like javascript:moreSmiliesAappendSmiley(’:brickwall:’
I feel your pain and sympathise greatly with people noot understanding. My Mum called just after a Blue Screen Of Death and couldn’t understand why I was almost in tears.
Now she is an internet user she gets it and now I get phone calls at silly o’clock in the morning to talk her through the little crisis or four she might be having. best moment ever was having her call up and ask me to install Firefox because she heard it was better. So proud.
Wow, that went in a direction I wasn’t expecting.
Yay for no bugs!!! And ummm, you could not pay me enough money to wack at bees!
YEY! So glad the ‘puter is fixed! And LMAO on the jazz quote ;-)
Good to hear the bugs are gone. Excellent quote at the end!
There are two things that totally unnerve me when they don’t work - computers and cars. I feel your pain. You’ll have to tell me about the firm that helped you. Good to know.
I think that it was a command. A really, naughty, make me pant and swoon command. Woof.
Hey, glad that all is right with your computer. I think that I’d have to burn the neighbor’s house down if something happened with my computer.
Jazzercise sounds a lot more exciting than yoga.
I’m just saying.
(Wait, that was Monty’s line)
You know… my Mac doesn’t get viruses… he doesn’t get sick. Maybe you should consider a sweet Mac… The only thing he needs is a new lithium battery now and then….
xo
LBC
See you tomorrow…
On reflexion, would it have been cheaper to buy a new compute?
We are having the same problem with one of our work computers.
The Last King of Scottland…is that the one about the doctor that went over to Africa and got caught up with the dictator’s personal physician? If so, I’ve seen that! We recently rented it from Netflix and it was riviting…a bit gory at times, but riviting.
Glad all your bugs are gone!
I know I’d be cranky without a computer.
We had bees in our house once, and that was truly a nightmare.