Honest - I nearly died!!!!!
Had a bad night last night....I 'tossed and turned', was first really hot, then cold. I really feared that the intestinal virus that has been 'bugging me' (no - not funny - so stop laughing) had somehow or other returned. Twice this last week I'vehad the Doctor call and then just laid in bed, looked at the cieling and just wished 'he' would come and get me......
But, as luck would have it there was someone/thing calling me at 4am this morning! My blo*dy computer. Now why should I decide - even though I couldn't sleep anymore, that a quick shower and a coffee would allow me to try and (foolishly) put the final touches/adjustments to the Mozilla Firefox programme that Serge kindly (well I think he was being kind...) downloaded for me a couple of weeks ago. So fresh as a daisy and sustained by a 'caffe latte' I set-to to rearrange all the Internet Explorer stuff and then up pops this little Mozilla/MS message asking me if I'm ready to transfer Explorer to Firefox? Of course I'm not - how can I be? I haven't the least idea what I'm doing. Well the only answer to this 'civil, talking' PC (at 4.45am) is to decline (say NO). So what did I do? Yeah you've guessed, I clicked on YES - NOW!!!!!! Panic - what would happen? Would I now loose everything????? Under the desk quick. Hide!
Well off went the programme with all sorts of things 'coming and going' then up pops my 'C-Clean' Anti-virus asking me to let it sort (meaning chuck) out all the useless cr*p I've accumulated in this (false) friend hidden in this little black box in front of me. So - being the 'intelligent' soul that I am - I said "Yes - Thank you" and off it went. Sometime later, when it 'seemed' to have finished , I found Mozilla Firefox there 'on screen' waiting for me. So I opened Expats in Italy, my 'fave forum' andas I was already logged in - I checked for posts since my last visit.....This is where it started going 'awry' . It said there were 1563!!!!!. So - 'Log out' I think..... No can't do that(log-out)! It tells me I have, but it's lying! The 1563 posts are still there..... Well as luck would have it Cristina (phew) - the saviour of many of my PC 'peccadillo's' is 'on line' already - and a quick post to her and she rapidly allayed my fears.
You think that was it????? Yeah - right, and 'Pigs could fly'. I went out to get some shopping (well if truth be known - to get a CD Writer, or,Masterizzatore as they call 'em here) so I could use cd's to save data. I had thought to get a small transportable memory 'thingy' that really did look good, but they didn't have one. But they did have a 'Phillips Internal DVD ReWriter 16xDVD+R/-R'.....now tell me that's not impressive (?)! It was on 'special offer' at €34.50 (£23/$43 US) and that seemed pretty good to me. At least It will be 'til some bright spark appears and tells me "Oh - they've got those on E-Bay for 'thruppence ha'penny"!.... Someone always does that to me! But I've got this one now - not another one later - and I've got a friend coming to fit it for me.
So back to this morning - Home with shopping and 'the item'. Upstairs - PC says 'All work complete' - "Please close down your computer and re-start it".
Yep - OK...enter 'password' - screen saver, icons all appear THEN THE CURSOR AND THAT LITTLE HOURGLASS JUST 'STOPPED DEAD' IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN!!!
NOTHING WILL WORK - CAN'T SWITCH OFF - NOTHING!!!
Heart attack #2 for sure I reckon. What to do?
First I must stay calm. Don't be so blo*dy silly I tell myself. A good panic never did anyone any harm. Well there's always a first time I tell myself.
Stop - think!
I know....'phone SERGE'! He'll know what to do - and if he doesn't - I'll kill the bug*er!
OK - he's at his suppliers - obviously busy (loads of background noise) - Mother (moi) in high panic mode tries to explain the problem with a tiny trembling (but fake!) voice, adding that I'm:
1.On the verge of suicide.
2.Feeling decidedly sick.
3.In 'panic' mode.
4.Gonna 'kill him' for downloading the blo*dy thing onto my computer.
And what does he do? I'll tell you - He burst out laughing. Nearly choked and said "Don't worry Mum - you'll be OK within seconds - Just unplug the pc from the power point in the wall, wait a couple of minutes and plug it back in again".......He got an instant reprieve for that advice.
I did - the computer did and I'm back on the road again!!!!!
I hate bloody computers. I DO!
But, as luck would have it there was someone/thing calling me at 4am this morning! My blo*dy computer. Now why should I decide - even though I couldn't sleep anymore, that a quick shower and a coffee would allow me to try and (foolishly) put the final touches/adjustments to the Mozilla Firefox programme that Serge kindly (well I think he was being kind...) downloaded for me a couple of weeks ago. So fresh as a daisy and sustained by a 'caffe latte' I set-to to rearrange all the Internet Explorer stuff and then up pops this little Mozilla/MS message asking me if I'm ready to transfer Explorer to Firefox? Of course I'm not - how can I be? I haven't the least idea what I'm doing. Well the only answer to this 'civil, talking' PC (at 4.45am) is to decline (say NO). So what did I do? Yeah you've guessed, I clicked on YES - NOW!!!!!! Panic - what would happen? Would I now loose everything????? Under the desk quick. Hide!
Well off went the programme with all sorts of things 'coming and going' then up pops my 'C-Clean' Anti-virus asking me to let it sort (meaning chuck) out all the useless cr*p I've accumulated in this (false) friend hidden in this little black box in front of me. So - being the 'intelligent' soul that I am - I said "Yes - Thank you" and off it went. Sometime later, when it 'seemed' to have finished , I found Mozilla Firefox there 'on screen' waiting for me. So I opened Expats in Italy, my 'fave forum' andas I was already logged in - I checked for posts since my last visit.....This is where it started going 'awry' . It said there were 1563!!!!!. So - 'Log out' I think..... No can't do that(log-out)! It tells me I have, but it's lying! The 1563 posts are still there..... Well as luck would have it Cristina (phew) - the saviour of many of my PC 'peccadillo's' is 'on line' already - and a quick post to her and she rapidly allayed my fears.
You think that was it????? Yeah - right, and 'Pigs could fly'. I went out to get some shopping (well if truth be known - to get a CD Writer, or,Masterizzatore as they call 'em here) so I could use cd's to save data. I had thought to get a small transportable memory 'thingy' that really did look good, but they didn't have one. But they did have a 'Phillips Internal DVD ReWriter 16xDVD+R/-R'.....now tell me that's not impressive (?)! It was on 'special offer' at €34.50 (£23/$43 US) and that seemed pretty good to me. At least It will be 'til some bright spark appears and tells me "Oh - they've got those on E-Bay for 'thruppence ha'penny"!.... Someone always does that to me! But I've got this one now - not another one later - and I've got a friend coming to fit it for me.
So back to this morning - Home with shopping and 'the item'. Upstairs - PC says 'All work complete' - "Please close down your computer and re-start it".
Yep - OK...enter 'password' - screen saver, icons all appear THEN THE CURSOR AND THAT LITTLE HOURGLASS JUST 'STOPPED DEAD' IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN!!!
NOTHING WILL WORK - CAN'T SWITCH OFF - NOTHING!!!
Heart attack #2 for sure I reckon. What to do?
First I must stay calm. Don't be so blo*dy silly I tell myself. A good panic never did anyone any harm. Well there's always a first time I tell myself.
Stop - think!
I know....'phone SERGE'! He'll know what to do - and if he doesn't - I'll kill the bug*er!
OK - he's at his suppliers - obviously busy (loads of background noise) - Mother (moi) in high panic mode tries to explain the problem with a tiny trembling (but fake!) voice, adding that I'm:
1.On the verge of suicide.
2.Feeling decidedly sick.
3.In 'panic' mode.
4.Gonna 'kill him' for downloading the blo*dy thing onto my computer.
And what does he do? I'll tell you - He burst out laughing. Nearly choked and said "Don't worry Mum - you'll be OK within seconds - Just unplug the pc from the power point in the wall, wait a couple of minutes and plug it back in again".......He got an instant reprieve for that advice.
I did - the computer did and I'm back on the road again!!!!!
I hate bloody computers. I DO!
posted by Carole B at
5:47 PM
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