Reub's journey

03 April 2012

Internet detox II

Wow, I can't believe I wrote about voluntary abstention from the internet last week, and now, now i'm in the midst of an involuntary lapse. This has to do with installing a new operating system in my Mac, and failing to do it correctly, just as I imagined would happen, even though it was supposed to be easy.

Because I don't really know what I'm doing, I am bound for disaster. It's like I poured molasses into the hard drive. Or mud. I can suddenly type far faster than my computer can thgink! SEEEE? I don't notice typos for literally, minutes, because I'm way ahead of the computer, like I'm in a road race with a 90-year-old! The hard drive whirs constantly, like it's busy doing something much more important. It takes a page at least 90 seconds to load. I've grown impatient; it takes too long to do anything or go anywhere online. Much mush too long a time to load a photo. omg...mush?...I think I'll leave that one stand.

I hate Snow Leopard. No, wait, I don't. I do hate how directions are written for people with a higher level of experience than mine, which makes me feel dumb. (Oh how weird, the hard drive stopped whirring for the 1st time in 3 days...is it listening to me? naahhhh...) Ah, never mind, it's whirring again.

I like to think of my computer as an old pal who just needs TLC. Nothing like a good attitude.

So. If you are a person to whom I send emails, visit your blog, or enjoy a Facebook connection, I may not see you for a week or so. The best that Apple can do is to set me up with a technician next Wednesday, to straighten me out. Someone who will explain why the disc didn't have a "clean install" option. Someone who will tell me which "partitions" to erase.

(ooooooh, I just got a message that a "script is not responding".... WHAT does this mean? )

OK, I know you have better things to do. Go read something good and tell me about it...next week.

8 comments:

  1. Ack.. that sounds awful. You're not still booted up from the install disc, I hope...

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  2. It is sad that you live far away, otherwise I would just come over and fix it for you. "Courage," as Dan Rather once said. (Much better than his other famous quote, "What is the frequency, Kenneth?")

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  3. i can only sympathize. what you describe for you is how i htoought a computer should work...for reals.

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  4. been there, even with a very new computer I am having some of these issues.... grrrrrh
    saw you were by the FSO site and just wanted to say HI!
    hugs Ginger

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  5. These are some of the pitfalls of technological advancement ! Hope you are up and about soon !

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  6. Hope your woes are righted - I used to think I knew a little something about computers but I don't think that anymore. I need a live in tech!

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  7. OK, I'm back and everything is working. Didn't need no stinkin' technician. Nothing that a clean wipe of the hard drive wouldn't fix.

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