another day in computer hell
Well this thought is coming in way late because for some reason this page does not want to put parameters on new pasted in simple text and keeps typing off into the distance faster than Superman -- assuming Superman could type. Which I figure he could because Clark looked like the kind of guy who just would learn to type in highschool to me. And since I can't find anything in the html to explain this it does not look like this is going to get fixed tonight or even tomorrow night because I have been fighting with it for five days and I have things that must be done that don't include fighting with software, jeez! So. The elf gets to type the thought in html slow mo.
In honor of the occasion, I am naming tonight's thought: ANOTHER DAY IN COMPUTER HELL
And I know, somehow, someway, this is Microsoft's fault. I know if my old Word program, Word 5.0, that predates dinosaurs but worked like a word program should, had not been destroyed in Computer Cisaster 2000, this problem would not be happening. But no. I have New and Improved Word now. Which personally I think of as New and Cumbersome and Annoying as Hell Word. Although that is not what it says on the box. So um --
If anyone from Microsoft is listening?
I did not want Word to have three two hundred miles tall menu bars anchored to the top of my computer screen blocking all access to files on my desktop I might just want to access sometime while I'm working in Word.
I did not want an animated box to hop on my desktop yelling do I want help writing a letter and I did not want it throwing fun new"Word" letter templates at me.
I did not want to waste twenty-five minutes figuring out how to print my envelopes which were laid out already fine except Word wanted to lay them out over again the "Word" way.
I did not want Word style sheets to hurl pop up menus in my face every time I entered a new style.
I did not want Word to underline every word it did not recognize in red squiggles while I was just trying to type something anyone French would recognize.
I did not want Word to invade my Outlook Express program and start implementing exciting new "Word" features into my email.
I did not want Word to write HTML code for me or to rename text styles so that I didn't know what was what anymore when I tried to save a document.
Talk about headache. I'm a writer. And since I got "New and Impoved "Word" I have not been writing. I have been fighting with Word. And buying new software from other companies to do stuff I used to do in Word because the way "New and Improved Word" is behaving, I just can't format a damn script in it.
That is my thought for the day.
Love and Kisses,
That Adams Girl
PS: So the computer disaster is almost concluded but if you have not heard from me in a while you should email to make sure you are in the address book still because a lot of people aren't.
PPS: It is official. Pepto Bismol does not come out of off-white wool berber carpet.
