well this says it all considering my dependence on the computer and coming to chat with my garden friends. I was going to post Gloria's request to DAvid a short bit ago, and earlier had this "blue screen of death" come up and youngest son had advised me to hold the start up button down for a minute until the computer shut down and reboot. (the message had said it was deleting files and unnecessary memory......freaked me OUT) then I get this other message that said something about Wizard software and Eternet installation, and I just closed it since Squire and son are gone for a week and the computer isn't networked at the moment....(woo hoo, no fighting to download messages or my comics!! I have a PHONE LINE and it's slower than a seven year itch with a ten year scratch........) SOOOOOOOO's I close that window, go about my business and when I go to the newsgroup, I get this "unknown error" message with the exclamation in the little triangle and don't panic. I go to the bianaries picture newsgroup I had subscribed to after I relocated it and posted my picture of the Cereus and it said the same thing only now it says low memory or low disk space.....hmmmmmmmm lovely.
I try to reach Bell South tech support and thanks to the worldwide virus (I don't have the virus, I used a security patch just in time) they're overwhelmed and please call back next year (just kidding, but they were on automatic and I never got a human which is unusual). So I go to my crib notes and start looking up the problems. Ok, so I discover in my properties portion after going to the tools setting, I now have LAN checked which I knew hadn't been checked before. So making Squire crazy, I called him again (this time it was just as his food was coming to the table.....I have PERFECT timing when I call, I'm known as Marilyn-interruptus among my closer friends.......) Apparently somehow the computer gremlins had reset my connections button and it was a simple proceedure. I will always be amazed by this miracle gift of technology, but it makes me nuts when Squire is gone and he's the one who usually trouble shoots these things, and even he doesn't know everything he wants to about these things. He built mine, and his computer and everyone in the house, but he didn't go to college and learn all he wanted to which he'd love to, but you know how that goes..........
So bottom line is, I'm back and it wasn't serious this time. But now I have this problem with the car and I have to be at work tomorrow morning at 6 and driving a car in the dark on a country back road with no walking shoulders on the roads and no cell phone and nothing for 10 miles but houses and pastures and farm land is freaky if I break down. I sure can tell Mars is messing with the mechanical.............just hope I can see the once in a lifetime display on the 27th.....and that the car problem hangs on for one more day...........sigh......thanks for letting me vent. madgardener where it rained yet another day and the six day forcast is for rain every day this week.................................time to get out the John boat I guess.............. up on the ridge, back in fairy holler, overlooking English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee, zone 7, Sunset zone 36