"Four LONG Days Without My Computer"

"Four LONG Days Without My Computer"

(Written 9/15/12 by ChristopherK2 for the Uglier MDers blog)

 

Well, thank goodness THAT ordeal is over!

 

I recently had some serious computer problems due to a bunch of malware and crap.  (A certain SOMEONE will never EVER again be allowed on my computer!)  I tried everything I knew to fix it, and after a couple of days I gave up and called in my geek friend, Colleen.  We eventually just reformatted the hard drive and started from scratch.  I also upgraded to Windows 7 along the way, and most of my last two days has been spent adding back all of my old software and some new stuff.  I'll have to spend one more full day finishing that, and then tweaking stuff.

 

I was frankly surprised how little I missed AOL, but then I primarily use it only for some news, IMs, email, and to access the thousands of web sites I've saved over the years.  (BTW, AOL has a max of 2,500 fav places in case you didn't know.  LOL)

 

But I was also surprised at how reliant I've become on access to my computer in general.  Following are some of the things I missed most.

 

Word Processing

 

I was working on several important legal documents when the computer crashed.  Too bad!

 

Banking

 

I don't pay bills that way, but I do use the internet to check my accounts regularly, make transfers, etc.  That saves me many trips to the bank.

 

Excel

 

I maintain a LOT of Excel workbooks related to gardening, medical stuff, and much else.  Just one example... I planted about 30 perennials a few weeks ago, and track them thru a workbook.  I also need access to a local weather site as well as national ones to help me decide when and how much to water them.  So, I had to do it on the fly, which is NOT my style.

 

News

 

I read a lot of news sites every day, including CNN, The Washington Post, and the Huffington Post.  I didn't make up for that by watching CNN on the tv because they talk a LOT slower than I can read.  But I kept wondering such things as, did North Korea invade South Korea yesterday???

 

TMZ

 

Yes, I'm totally hooked on TMZ.  Again, I don't watch the tv version because it's just way too slow.  So I had to suffer thru Snooki withdrawal pains.  Ugghh...

 

But my computer is now much better, faster, smoother, and more reliable.

 

Oh... when I did finally get back onto AOL, I caught up on the blogs.  Zeeke's took about 30 seconds because it was just more of his obsession with pasting my face onto various homoerotic and homophobic images.  And Vomit's was, regardless of the article, nothing but homoerotic and homophobic rants about me.  So that took maybe two minutes to update. Same old, same old for both of them... Ugly had posted several new, interesting articles on his blog that I very much enjoyed reading.

 

I also couldn't help but notice that Zeeke is now claiming with "100% certainty" from recent "undeniable proof" that Mensa owns Ugly's blog.  Vomit's blog has also been swamped with add-on comments by various idiots.  I'm "100% certain" that Zeeke will make exactly the same claims in the near future about ME, or RedSky, or yada yada owning Ugly's blog.

 

Poor, poor Zeeke... no one, not even his Zombies, believes anything he says anymore.  That happens when you spend many years lying frequently, badly, and without any remorse.