Ya ever have one of those days where you might have been better off just staying in bed?
Back story: I have two computers. One is a desktop with a humongous monitor screen. It has a humongous monitor screen because my Granddaughter helped my son pick it out for me and she thought Grandma would like the large screen. She does.
The other computer is a laptop that is used mostly for genealogy related stuff and photos.
Yesterday I managed to spill a half a glass of cherry Kool Aide all over the desktop keyboard. Apparently, the liquid shorted something out, because the keyboard no longer works. Can't say I am surprised! The mouse works though, so all is not lost.
This morning, I decided to print out some genealogy related stuff. The very first thing I did was (I really don't know how) I managed to wind up with a piece of paper stuck inside the printer. After a considerable amount of digging around in the bowels of the printer, spiced up with one or two choice words, I managed to get the printer unstuck. By that time, I didn't want to print anything anymore!
On to this afternoon, when I got one of those robo calls from my pharmacy telling me I have prescriptions ready to pick up. Since I am housebound and since my kids and older grands all have jobs, I have had my meds mailed to me for the past two or three years. But the pharmacy won't automatically stick them in the mail. I have to call and request the service each time.
I wouldn't mind, but now time is wasted waiting for that auto call to run through the many options. I used to be able to talk to a real person at the end of all that foolishness. Not anymore. Now I need to leave a message, and they promise to return my call within an hour. It has been 8 hours and no return call.
Sigh.
Life was so much simpler when we wrote everything out by hand. And when we could easily talk to a real person. Anybody know where I can find a time machine that will shoot me back to the 60's?
Gonna find me a movie and go snuggle up in my recliner. I have had all the fun I can stand for one day! :)
Oh gosh. *HUGS*
ReplyDeleteHopefully one of the family members can bring you a new keyboard.
And if any of them are technically inclined, they could help you with a switch so you could use the big monitor for your laptop, too.
Unless you prefer not to. :)
You all be safe and God bless, Vicki.
P.S. Hope you found a good movie!
Thanks for the suggestions, LindaG. I'm sure one of my kids will bring me a new keyboard when I ask. Seems like on days where things start off going wrong, the just escalate. Could be worse. At least I got some down time out of the chaos!! Take car!
DeleteLuckily, it was the keyboard on the DESKTOP that got doused, Vicki. Dumping Kool Aid on a laptop keyboard usually means then end of the laptop, being that the computer portion of the thing is right under it. For the moment, you can probably plug that big monitor into your laptop to enable... age-appropriate... ...readability...
ReplyDeleteI'm finding dealing with ANY medical entity MADDENING! I've been a fairly healthy person throughout my life, so this is new to me. Since the discovery of my current medical condition I've found myself doing battle with both live and computer-based idiots! If I'm not TELLING someone to do their job, I'm actually DOING their job! I get the feeling these people and processors want me to just give up, die, and get the hell out of their way. To coin the words of an American patriot, "I have not yet BEGUN to fight!" To coin my own words, "If you think I'm pissed now, you TRULY don't know me very well!" Indeed, there's a certain vocabulary one picks up being raised in New York and spending 21 years as a sailor... 'Comes in handy at times like these... Y'remember that "Lava" pumice soap? I think God is standing there at Heaven's gate with a bar of that stuff, waiting wash my mouth out with it, but wait'll the idiots see what God has in store for them!
Enjoy the movie, Vicki, and God bless you and yours!
Hi Pete...Considering that I didn't wreck the laptop and I am still printing out genealogy stuff - who knew there were that many ancestors waiting to be discovered - and I still have a ton of projects waiting in the wings, I think I will take the easy route, which is to call a kid and ask for a new keyboard! Everything else on that computer works just fine, except for typing anything. My fault. I can be such a klutz!!
DeleteI know what you are saying about the medical profession in general. I have no complaints about the nurses I see regularly. The rest can go kick rocks. It has been my experience that doctors - at least the ones I have dealt with recently - would rather write prescriptions than actually find solutions to problems. Methinks Big Pharma might have something to do with that!
Not all that long ago I asked my doctor to recommend an herbal alternative for a particular prescribed drug. He looked at me like I had just grown an extra eye in the middle of my forehead!
And when I call a pharmacy, it would be really nice if I could just talk to a real person instead of dealing with a bunch of automated bullcrap. Sigh.
Other than that, life is grand. :)
Vicki, there are two temporary workarounds for a dead keyboard. If the mouse still works, there is an app hidden in "Windows Ease of Access" called an "On Screen Keyboard" where you peck at letters with the mouse curser. It is a pain to use but allows access if you really need it. The second is a cheap USB plug in keyboard from somewhere like Walmart (if the rest of the computer works, it is a shame to replace it). I used one for a couple years when some keys on my older laptop quit working.
ReplyDeleteDon...I really appreciate the suggestions for a work-around. And I will be saving them for future reference should I do something equally dumb in the future. :)
ReplyDeleteThe keyboard is the only thing on that computer that isn't working, so I think I will just call a kid and have them bring me a new keyboard. I am blessed to have adult children and grands who do stuff like this for me if I ask.
I love that there are those who are willing to help others. Restores my faith in people.
Hi Mom. I'll bring you a new keyboard next week. I have to laugh a little, though!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Son...Kind of figured you might get a chuckle out of your Mom being such a klutz! :)
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