I have a little time on my hands today, going to the Doctor’s Office and he is going to say, “How are you doing?” and I am going to smile my best toothy smile and reply, “Great! I am doing just fine.” Then he will pull out his pad and write me even more prescriptions.
Which is frustrating to say the least, I am now currently taking a Ford Crown Victoria Hubcap full of lug nuts every day. Why do they even bother asking. I got news for my doctor, he doesn’t know it, but every day, every dog-gone day, I beat my previous record for staying alive.
Just finished reading my email and found some folks unhappy with me again, it doesn’t seem to take much these days. But being the kind sort that I am I prayed for them. “Lord … Please help me to love those who do not love me, and those that do not love me, teach them how to love me Lord, and if they cannot learn to love me, then could you please break their ankles, so that I will know them by their limping. Amen.”
Never hurts to lift up a prayer.
Did some surfing on the net and visited all those places that I know of that have all that education that I seem to lack. This is where I get my daily dose of the big words and plenty of quotation marks. I bet that the folks that write these blogs have a dictionary and a thesaurus handy, right there next to the monitor. Here is a word that I am starting to notice a lot … “Visionary.”
I suppose we will be seeing or hearing more of that in the days to come.
Lot of folks are starting to get sour because their particular political savior didn’t make the grade and are getting kind of nasty. Mellow out people. If the frustration of losing an election have driven you to this, you could be suffering “political computer rage.” This morning I was visiting one blog and the main conversation was on Rush Limbaugh and the sentiments and comments were less than measured. Y’all need to remember that radio personalities such as Limbaugh are there for a reason, to stir you up, hack you off, ruin your day. I am firmly convinced that “AM” on my radio dial stands for absolute moron. I will not begin to tell you what “FM” stands for.
As I said before: “Lot of folks are starting to get sour because their particular political savior didn’t make the grade and are getting kind of nasty. Mellow out folks “ This is hate speech. Which is the electronic equivalent of “Road Rage” on the nation’s highways. If you suddenly find yourself using metaphors such as “jerk” or the F-word more frequently than usual, then you are most likely suffering from computer rage right now. You are not adding anything pleasant to the mix, you are muddying up the waters.
And if you are in your home, and there is no traffic other than internet comment sections, then who do you take it out on? The family cat? The computer? (I know! I know! Let me have this one!) 83% of all American’s at one time or another have abused their own computers or the computer of their employer.
Breaking a keyboard is a problem, shattering a monitor, or the outright murder of a mouse! I suppose if you got totally postal as the kids say, stood up in your chair and kicked the sucker, that would give a new meaning to the word … Reboot.
This article I read on this subject said that the #1 item to suffer the most was the keyboard. Mice and monitors tied for second place and hard drives came in a lowly third. Who hasn’t ever, in a fit of frustration “slapped the fizz out of the monitor” to loosen a stuck cursor.
Raise your hands, C’mon, be honest.
I believe it was Albert Einstein that said “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” And I am fairly sure he was right on the money when he said it. Recently I read an article that stated that “seniors are more likely to stay sharp (in the mind) by surfing the net” and applying this technology in their daily lives (USA Today).
The biggest lie in the world.
It might keep you sharp, but it is going to Pi** you off from time to time and raise your blood pressure higher than your I.Q. Manufacturers will tell you this stuff is plug and play, download it now, and then you start the process …. “I don’t know what is going on here, why isn’t this working?” Hours and hours of frustration, doesn’t make one sharp. …
Plug This! You no good ##@$%*!!# son of a mothers son!
“What is going on in there?” from the kitchen.
“I just downloaded a new gadget, darling, and I am just uh, err, sorting it out.”
Might be easier to just be a visionary, besides, have you checked the price of a new keyboard lately?
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Somewhat Related and recent:
Thanks to DanaMckay for the heads up on the utube video.
I see your Delete button picture is clickable. Wonder how many people have clicked on it just out of curiosity. I’m definitely guilty. LOL The pc fix I hate the most is when it downloads some update then tells you it’s going to automatically re-starts your pc in 30 secs or less. Usually, this will occur right in the middle of something I’m doing or writing.
Really enjoyed your uplifting little prayer. Gotta remember that one.
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I often have this reoccurring nightmare where I die and I go to heaven and the angel at the front gate inquires of me ……. Screen name and password? …. And of course, I draw a complete blank.
I just got one of them intrusion updates or something a minute ago, now I say, if I have a screaming I am going to eat your hard drive trojan horse worm or something, then tell me about it, but if it isn’t that, leave me alone.
DS
Comment by Larry N — November 7, 2008 @ 10:50 AM
I dealt with disappointment two elections in a row. (Especially in ’04 when the dingbat got elected for four more years….) Anyway, if I could make it through that dark period, the bigots and the racists can deal as well. If not, they can always find a different country to take up residence.
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Hello D … The last one was especially horrible, I went to bed and Gore was the winner, I got up the next morning and they had changed it to shorty. Didn’t like that at all. Belize looks pretty good or maybe a tree house in Honduras.
DS
Comment by D — November 7, 2008 @ 3:25 PM
Beating up the computer in a rage is sorta like yelling at the TV when something on it is ticking you off. We stop short of throwing something at the TV because they are too dang expensive to replace now.
Personally, I tend to scream at both so much that Hubby is used to it and doesn’t even glance my way anymore.
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You must be a type-A personality. I do it too. We used to have this foam rubber thing, it was called “TV Brick” (I am not making this up!) and I could throw it at the TV. Have been known to throw hammers, lawnmowers, books that irked me. Now I have high blood pressure and take medicine out the Kazoo.
My wife will say “you are talking to the television again” and chides me about it. But she is jealous because “the voices only talk to me.” Hah!
DS
Comment by delaney55 — November 7, 2008 @ 3:28 PM