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stitchwhich) wrote2005-06-22 03:01 am
stitchwhich) wrote2005-06-22 03:01 am
Hmmmm.... what to write....
It's after 3am, another sleepless night. I've read a regency romance (I'm reading them to sort them. I have piles of them stacked on a bottom shelf and haven't touched them in years. Now I'm working my way through the collection and will only save the really good ones - *NO* smarmy comments about what constitutes a "good" regency romance allowed!) and I've sewn some seams on my new hangerroc, done some laundry and now I'm updating my journals, mostly just to avoid trying to come up with something else to do.
Yesterday I backed up my computer for the first time. I know, laugh if you want. I've had it for a year and had never figured out how to back up my files. Yesterday morning after I updated my Norton stuff the computer wouldn't let me access my word documents. I don't know what that had to do with Internet security, but that hardly mattered. I was locked out of all my saved documents. It just kept opening a dialogue window telling me to finish setting up my Microsoft Office 2003 program. Now, I admit, I loaded that program onto my computer about a year ago (at Arni's insistance) and couldn't get the darn (damned) registration number to be accepted so I never bothered to use it. There was another Word program on my computer and I used it instead. Now the darn thing was telling me that I couldn't access my Word documents until 2003 was loaded. ARG! So I called Arni, who told me to wait until he got home. He arrived, I explained, he yelled, I cried, and then he figured out that I had been right and something unusual was wrong. So we ended up deleting the 2003 program off my hard drive and suddenly I could access my Word documents agin. Yippee! Yippee until I tried to read email that is, when I noticed that my email icon had turned into a file folder and it opened - not to "Outlook", but "Outlook Express". One without any of my saved messages or address book. What the heck? Again the call for Arni, again the man sitting angry at my computer, followed by the suddenly-confused man asking me why and how I ended up with MicroSoft Office Exec 2003, MicroSoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Works all loaded onto my machine. To which I had to answer - I'd only loaded 2003 on there, last year, when he insisted that I do that. I guessed that the other programs were on there since we brought it home from the store... so we figured it out. My word document program is the one from Office 2000, my email handler is in the (now sectionally reloaded so I can use "Outlook") Office 2003 and "Works" has gone the way of the dodo.
Which only serves to reinforce my feelings that paper and pens are much easier on the heart and mind of the average user.
So with the aid of two "... For Dummies" books I figured out how to back up email/address book files and also learned that I need a professional edition of Office in order to get a "basic" back up program for the rest of my hard-drive. I figure it's easier and cheaper for me to just ask for a firefly external memory and call this merry-go-round ended.
So much work for so little print.
Yesterday I backed up my computer for the first time. I know, laugh if you want. I've had it for a year and had never figured out how to back up my files. Yesterday morning after I updated my Norton stuff the computer wouldn't let me access my word documents. I don't know what that had to do with Internet security, but that hardly mattered. I was locked out of all my saved documents. It just kept opening a dialogue window telling me to finish setting up my Microsoft Office 2003 program. Now, I admit, I loaded that program onto my computer about a year ago (at Arni's insistance) and couldn't get the darn (damned) registration number to be accepted so I never bothered to use it. There was another Word program on my computer and I used it instead. Now the darn thing was telling me that I couldn't access my Word documents until 2003 was loaded. ARG! So I called Arni, who told me to wait until he got home. He arrived, I explained, he yelled, I cried, and then he figured out that I had been right and something unusual was wrong. So we ended up deleting the 2003 program off my hard drive and suddenly I could access my Word documents agin. Yippee! Yippee until I tried to read email that is, when I noticed that my email icon had turned into a file folder and it opened - not to "Outlook", but "Outlook Express". One without any of my saved messages or address book. What the heck? Again the call for Arni, again the man sitting angry at my computer, followed by the suddenly-confused man asking me why and how I ended up with MicroSoft Office Exec 2003, MicroSoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Works all loaded onto my machine. To which I had to answer - I'd only loaded 2003 on there, last year, when he insisted that I do that. I guessed that the other programs were on there since we brought it home from the store... so we figured it out. My word document program is the one from Office 2000, my email handler is in the (now sectionally reloaded so I can use "Outlook") Office 2003 and "Works" has gone the way of the dodo.
Which only serves to reinforce my feelings that paper and pens are much easier on the heart and mind of the average user.
So with the aid of two "... For Dummies" books I figured out how to back up email/address book files and also learned that I need a professional edition of Office in order to get a "basic" back up program for the rest of my hard-drive. I figure it's easier and cheaper for me to just ask for a firefly external memory and call this merry-go-round ended.
So much work for so little print.