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July 17, 2003
Strange Days
This has been the strangest week with computers. Monday at school, everytime you would try to change a document in either Word or WordPad, the computer would lock up. Since the entire class was trying to edit a test before turning it in and every computer in the classroom was doing it, that was very annoying. Tuesday, in a different classroom, part of my screen froze while I was working on an Excel spreadsheet. It was lovely working around that, let me tell you.
Here at home, I haven't been able to get to a couple of blogs that I normally visit every day though I asked around and no one else was having that problem....kept getting a "Can't Find Server" error. That's now working today and I haven't changed anything.
Yesterday afternoon, I was trying to use NetDrive to tag into the school's network to download a homework assignment and couldn't get into the correct server where it was located....using my desktop. It worked fine on my laptop, and they're both set up exactly the same way.
And just now, my laptop taskbar just....disappeared. For no reason. I logged out of MT and it came back.
I think it's time to propitiate the computer gods....you know, burn a little incense, make an appropriate sacrifice.
I just need to find the cat.
Posted by Rita at July 17, 2003 07:36 AM
Comments
are you planning on sacrificing the cat? Glad you stopped by The Road Home
Posted by: Chesa at July 17, 2003 08:21 AM
oooh! oooh! I have cats! (We won't have to move them if they serve as a sacrifice to the computer god(s).)
:)
Posted by: shelley at July 17, 2003 09:32 AM
"Can't Find Server" happened on some sites here not long ago, then the sites reappeared. Someone was probably doing maintenance. The other problems, well...
But a cat is too much for the computer gods, as I learned in 30 years of tech programming on mainframes. A cockroach, nmaybe. Or the boss. In either case, remember to flush the toilet when the drowning is finished. Not incense, either, that just annoys them with residue building up on the circuit boards and they retaliate by using it as new electronic paths doing things you wouldn't like.
Posted by: John Anderson at July 17, 2003 02:29 PM
John, I don't think it was server maintenance because other people could get to the sites, just not me. I don't have a boss to sacrifice or roaches so the cat'll have to do. I didn't think about the incense making new circuitry....maybe I should just do an interpretive dance of appeasement then.
: )
Posted by: Rita at July 17, 2003 04:13 PM
I checked with Jimbo Fix-It, and he suggests going to your Jimbo Fix-It tool box and remove your hammer. He recommends hitting the computer soundly with the hammer, just below where you put the CDs in the slot. If that doesn't work, hit in the back, near all the wires.
This stuff is so EASY.
Posted by: Jim - Parkway Rest Stop at July 17, 2003 09:22 PM
Jim there's few things in life that can't be fixed by a big hammer & some duct tape, correct?
Posted by: Rita at July 18, 2003 05:50 AM