I am always bummed when things don’t go the way I want them to.  Life being what it is, of course, shit happens.

Every now and then my dear PC computer starts misbehaving.  I am nothing if not tenacious with this kind of trouble-shooting as you may have gathered, but right now I’m tired and teetering on the edge of throwing up my hands and saying “I quit.”  The problem is, what I mean by “I quit” is really “I quit but just for a little while” because the computer is a Virtual business’s spinal cord, its lifeline.  The problems have to be resolved.

For some inexplicable reason I’m having software issues and wouldn’t you know, I have a big project urgently requiring some smooth computing.  At this point I’m scratching my head.  What’s happening seems so bizarre to me that I’m leaning towards intentional sabotage by our friend Microsoft (I heard they have new stuff out again).  I guess I have a hard time accepting that things can just up and arbitrarily malfunction.

I am, however, always optimistic and definitely a believer in stuff magically resetting, because I’ve seen it happen time and again.  So for now, I’m saying goodnight and good luck to my machine.

Most likely I’ll lay still for a while and mull over whether PC vs. Mac might be similar to my always being a dog person and suddenly getting a cat, and how wonderfully surprising that was.

Hmmm… wonder if Microsoft is listening to me?

P.S. I am participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge this month – a blog a day if I can.

Didn’t get to blog last night because I frankly ran out of steam.  I’m a disaster service volunteer and there was a CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) drill last night.  I enlisted the help of my son and my (almost) daughter – both seniors in high school (helps with their community service requirement plus good exposure for them).

Every time I go through a drill, I come away noting the chaos but realizing that it’s so important that people have someone even slightly knowledgeable to look to for help.  In these situations practice can’t make perfect, but it sure makes better.

Do you know where and what your area disaster center (ADC) is?  It’s your local library.  The library staff have specific training in order to fulfill this role – drills like last night’s help them and help us.  It’s always chaotic, but we always learn new things.  Some of us just did the role-playing part, taking various scenarios and doing our best to be as high anxiety and distressed as we could. The pesky teenagers were awesome.  I am very proud.

My (almost) daughter mentioned to me jokingly that the participants were mostly senior citizens and no cute young guys.  I said we’re working on the cute young guy thing, but as for the seniors, they’re all very feisty and engaged senior citizens. The point about community service is that everyone has a part to play, limitations in physical ability do not exclude you, they are taken into account and you are put to work where you can do the most good.  Everyone has something they can contribute.  I’d really encourage you all to look into joining your own CERT.

P.S. I am participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge this month – a blog a day if I can.