Wow, I’m so late! And all because nothing seems to work as it should.
Doctor’s appointment: sit there and wait for an hour… and then some.
Computer: Hahahahahaha! As they try to stuff me into the straitjacket.
Doctor won’t allow me to eat fresh fruit. This has been going on for two months. I am not the better for it.
Computer screw-ups ate up at least an hour.
Physicians and computers… Tell me again: these are supposed to enhance our quality of life? No lying now! Let’s have the truth.
“Too tough for you mere humans?”
It’s a cinch that most of you know computers a lot better than I do; so maybe one of you can help us out.
I got an email today from Elder Mike, one of our regular readers whom we hadn’t seen lately. He’s still reading this blog every day, but somehow WordPress won’t post his comments. He’s not the first or only one to have experienced this. I wish I could tell him how to solve this problem, but it’s out of my range. Patty doesn’t know how to fix it, either. First they renamed him “Anonymous,” then they stopped posting his comments altogether.
There must be someone out there who knows the answer. Unknowable? Phoebe? Our readers are smart. Is it WordPress being silly? What must Mike do to solve it? I know there’s a way, but just now it’s locked up in my chemo brain and I don’t have the key.
I don’t know for how long this computer will work, so I’d better write fast.
When I went to bed last night, all systems were go. When I got up this morning, all systems were gone.
Verizon said it was because of a junction box (whatever that is) that got struck by lightning. We’ve had a lot of lightning the past couple nights.
So we’ve been cut off until now, it’s after 4:00, I haven’t been able to scan the nooze all day… but I wanted you all to know I hadn’t gone into hiding–
And now we have a tornado warning. *Sigh*
Once upon a time I used to start the morning with 100 views. Today I couldn’t get started at all. Computer went balky on me: took me half an hour just to get to my home page… where I found 14 views waiting for me.
Well, at least our heat is on this morning. Just have to work harder, that’s all.
Finally, at last, our brand-new Windows 11 computer is working again. It’s raining outside, PSE&G called to warn us about losing power in a coming storm… and we want to relax.
What with Ray Harryhausen’s special effects and Bernard Herrmann’s music score, Jason and the Argonauts looks like just the ticket for a rainy afternoon. Pure entertainment: it will make no demands on us.Haven’t had much luck with our weekends lately; we hope that is about to change. We’ve got a ton of preparations to make, sailing toward Christmas.
But first… Oy, Rodney. That’s relaxing, too.
Uncle Shinbone, the last time he got lost
G’day! Byron the Quokka here, with what’s left of Lee and Pat’s sanity. I think I’ve got most of it mopped up here–computer prombles, as usual.
It takes me back to a similar episode in “Getting Your Brain Fried By Technology”:
Anyhow, we’ve got the blinkin’ machines working properly again, and we’re only two hours behind schedule.
Think about this the next time some bedbug suggests slipping computer chips into our brains. Or into your car.
Our technology this morning once again got busy biting the hand that feeds it. “Outage!” said Verizon. Hours go by. They’re working on it.
Finally this broke through: Joy to the World, sung by Mitch Miller and his chorus.
There’s a catch, though. We only have volume on the main computer, not the laptop.
Oh, forsooth… let me try to catch up.
We woke up this morning to discover our main computer doesn’t work, no Internet, wrong numbers on the modem, etc., etc. We are hoping Adam the tech can get here and put it right: fumfering around on the phone all morning didn’t help.
The accursed thing–brand new, by the way!–was functioning normally when we went to bed last night.
So we are way behind on everything, we need to get our groceries for the week, it’s all up in the air…
I hope some of you will visit the Archives today. In case I don’t get the chance to write anything.
Don’t tear your hair just yet–we’re looking for a solution.
Some of us–well, not me, because I’m at the other end of this line and I don’t see what you see–have been complaining about WordPress not posting your comments. I have contacted WordPress about this and am waiting for an answer.
Meanwhile, Phoebe thinks she’s got it figured out. You should read her comment on yesterday’s post, “Kitten and Ducklings.” If she’s right, the comments in question are merely being subjected to a delay and will appear in two or three minutes after being posted.
Trust me, the last thing I want here is posting problems for my readers. I’ve sunk from 300+ views a day to only 200 or less–which I think has been caused by algorithms installed by Big Tech to suppress Christian and conservative sites. I don’t need a lot of technological bumbling added to the load.
So please bear with us. We’re trying to get it fixed.
As I beg the WordPress Happiness Engineers for help with viewers’ notification problems, etc., I thought you might enjoy this video as much as I did.
Wow! Spectacular! I never knew Glen Campbell (d.2017) could make this kind of music. To my generation (and his!), this was the theme music for The Lone Ranger. “Hi-yo, Silver! Away!” Rossini composed it in 1829.
When I think of Glen Campbell, I think Wichita Lineman, By the Time I Get to Phoenix–certainly nothing like this. Man, if I had a horse to jump on, I’m outta here!
Now I guess I’ll wait for the Happiness Engineers to answer me [cue Vincent Price with sardonic laughter].