I hate computers.
See that stupid little box up there? That was supposed to be a picture. Well, suddenly I can’t have any pictures, the computer refuses to handle them. That’s in addition to Facebook still not working. Nope, no referrals coming in from there. Two strikes on me before I can even get out of the dugout.
I hate computers.
And then, lo and behold, when I actually publish the post, the picture is there. I give up. This machine is in revolt against me.
If you want to imagine what I feel like just now, the picture shown above will put you on the right track. But the fact that there is a picture here at all is evidence that my wife’s solution to this–“problem” seems such a weak word, but it will have to do–was the right solution.
I’ve just finished writing my News With Views column for the week, I feel like I’ve just gone three falls with Killer Kowalski, and in a few minutes I will hit the road and fetch us a sack of White Castles for our supper.
And then, I think, I will want to say “Thank you!” to all of you by posting a cat video.
I don’t understand it, but I’ll take it. Just don’t ask me to explain what’s going on here, because I don’t have that much of my mind left to lose. For some reason this started working when I ran away and Patty took over.
So… let’s see how this post turns out. If it works, I can eat my lunch and try to do some work.
As you can see, there’s no freakin’ picture to go with this one, either. I have been receiving what is laughingly called tech support for two hours without profiting from it in the least. This could kill me, if I’m not careful.
Somewhere on the planet there has to be someone who knows how to solve this problem. But the Geek could only give me a whole new procedure with about 25 extra steps to it that would be guaranteed to utterly destroy me, psychically.
I hope this is not the end of my blog.
And don’t anybody tell me, “Don’t panic,” because it’s too late, I already have.
This image of Gumby has been made possible by Patty sitting in front of this ferschluggine machine and bullying it into submission. I believe she used a Boston crab. That, or something called a system restore that sends the blighter back through time.
She was reluctant to do it at first because she thought it would create other problems. It did. Several handsful of hair later, she had solved those, too.
So we’re back in business, and all I’ve got to do now is present a cat video.
Well, I still can’t copy and paste images, as you can see by the absence of the picture I tried to put here. This is Sunday, and computer cockups always happen on weekends and holidays, always and without fail, so that you can’t get anybody to fix them–which is what I’m going to have to do.
Please, audience, don’t drop me now–I’ll get this fixed as soon as I can.
My computer’s reply to me–See above.
Today, for no reason I can even guess at, this computer has stopped allowing me to copy and paste images. It lets me copy and paste videos. It lets me copy an image from the Internet and paste it into a Word document. But it will not let me copy an image and paste it to a blog post.
This is a procedure I have done literally thousands of times, and suddenly it doesn’t work. As you can see, there is no freakin’ picture here! And all of the “how to” videos merely demonstrate what I was already doing but which now doesn’t work.
Ideas, anyone?
Here’s further proof that we will never figure out cats. Like, why do they insist on jamming themselves into uncomfortably small containers? Are they trying to discover what it feels like to be a pickle in a jar?
Meanwhile, my computer has inexplicably decided not to paste any more still images. I have no idea why a procedure I have followed literally thousands of times suddenly will not work.
Thanks to good advice from readers Unknowable and Shari, I was able to get the stuck disc out of my computer and now she’s a-doin’ just fine! You guys saved me a trip to Office Depot and one gigantic hassle.
To express my thanks, here’s an extra cat video for your edification and enjoyment. It’s longer than the videos I usually select, but it’s ten minutes of pretty good fun brought to you by those expert funsters, cats.