February 5, 2002

  • War Report -


    Michael received a field promotion for extreme bravery and commitment to the cause under friendly fire.  Tucker was courtmartialed for creating friendly fire a little too much.


    I had a really bad night last night.  I started trying to log on to the Internet at 5:30 when my hubby came home so he could see the changes I made to my Xanga look (while I was cleaning house, I decided to clean the Xanga house as well.)  Plus I hadn't yet made it out to read sites and leave coments.


    I finally gave up and went to bed.  Tim was able to log on about midnight. 


    I don't know what it is about my relationship with the servers of the world that I have these kinds of recurring issues.  As far as I know I've never done anything evil to a computer that would make all it's cohorts band together to torment me.  But that appears to be what has happened.


    When my friend sends me email, at some point during the week, guaranteed, she'll send something that flat out doesn't get delivered.  At first I thought this was because of the particular Internet service I was using, so I fired them.  (Talk about an empowering experience!)  But, even with an entirely different service, the probem continues.


    I love to talk.  More specifically, I love to be involved with the thoughts, ideas, and lives of my friends.  Since we got transferred out to the backside of nowhere three years ago, all my oldest and bestest friends live at least 12 hours drive away.  (With two little kids in the back seat, I don't make that drie very often.)  But the Internet, email and digital pictures enable me to stay pretty much included in the circle.  So disruption or unreliability in my Internet service sends me from totally laid back to orbit in about 3 seconds flat.


    My husband is a computer genius.  My friend's husband is a computer genius.  Between the two of them, they don't have any idea what the problem is.  I know the problem.  It's a mischievous spirit that can't stand to see someone who has things going fairly well.  No amount of recoding is going to fix that, because the thing will just come back in a new form.


    NOw while I'm online and happy, I'm coming to visit your sites.  Starting with the lovely people who commented on my blog from yesterday.  That way if my computer blows up, I'll have returned the favor for your encouragement. 

Comments (18)

  • Yep, I think it is probably a mischievous spirit. My advice... make peace with him

  • check for gremlins.

    if none.

    remove back of computer, ADD 1 pound flour. 4 frog legs. 16 wombat nails
    and spit.

    should be up and running.

  • You know, I think I can smell that tea.  It would go really well with this baccon, egg and cheese biscit from McDonalds.  LOL  Hey I know exactually what you mean about getting so flustrated when you can't get online or if you can't get to sites you want to. I've had email problems too.  I often wonder where those emails go when they don't get deliverd where they're suppose to go.  Is there a lost and found department somewhere they all get routed to?  Have a good day.

  • Look in the bit bucket.

  • I know how you feel!  When we were stationed in Japan, internet was the only link I had with back home, and it has been invaluable ever since.

  • The site is absolutely beautiful. Love the tulips.

  • Damn.  And I keep get messages FOR you (which I've been deleting)--now what's up with that?!

  • You should ask your friends if the mail they sent was delivered back to them with a notice explaining why it failed to be sent to you. Failing that - are they typing the address right? At once time I was supposed to be recieving a lot of mail and never got it for the reason they were typing my address wrong. Or does your email have some sort of a filter that is blocking these emails so they get deleted before you see them. Just a few ideas, you might want to look into. Good luck

  • I, personally, like the Gremlin thoery. Maybe you should check to see if anyone stuck a peanut butter sandwich in the A drive - you know, feeding the Gremlins could be a bad thing!

  • It's a computer, need I say more?

    God Bless and Keep You Connected - Dale

  • I LOVE YOUR NEW SITE.... I love flowers and would love to have someone send me those everyday.. WOudln't that be great????? 

  • Computers are finicky creatures, aren't they? Just this past wkend I downloaded mail and there were 190 in my inbox....all dated from October until now and I'd never seen them before???  I feel your pain.

  • Dang computer imps!

  • Hmm, Peanut Butter sandwich in the A drive!  That could explain it!  Good luck with getting on today.

  • Is there the equivalent of the dead letter office somewhere in cyberspace? Maybe we should go there and see how many of our e-mails they've got.

  • I've looked, I can't figure it out. It's almost like someone is getting to them first. By the way, Mary says "Hi".

  • It's amusing how much of a love/hate relationship we all have with computers... all I can do is wish you nothing but well-connected, happy days to come!

  • yeah, we forgot about those damned gremlins until the last 3 days, huh?

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