LAZY BLOGGING DAY

 

I'm a lazy blogger today. We went to the Grandparents Day mass and reception at my grandson's school (on the right day!). The food at the reception was delicious. Afterward, we ran several errands, and I'm worn out.

We must decide whether we want to pay to connect our old computer, which is now in good shape, for Tom's exclusive use, or just go with the laptop and the new desktop and share the desktop. The old computer will not work on our wireless account.

WHAT I DID ON MY 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

 

Don't feel sorry for me about the anniversary, because our family had a lovely celebration over the weekend. You may feel sorry for me for the stress and frustration involved with setting up my new computer, for I am in no way a techie. I forgot to install my printer, copier, scanner on the new computer and could not figure out why the printer wouldn't work, but that's now fixed. The task is mostly finished, leaving only a bit of housekeeping to be done, with only one rather major problem, which I hope is only temporary. My main email account is in Outlook Express, which Microsoft no longer owns, and Windows 7 no longer supports. Thus, when the contents of my old computer were transferred to my new computer, OE was not included. Woe is me!

My old computer is in the shop waiting to be worked on to see whether once all my documents, music, and pictures are removed, and the drive is cleaned, it will serve as Grandpère's exclusive computer. He doesn't load up a computer as I do and mainly uses it for email and searches. I asked the person in the repair shop to write in large letters: PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE OUTLOOK EXPRESS FROM THIS COMPUTER!!! If I lose all the material in my OE email account, I will be in one grand mess.

HELP!

 

Who will come to my house and help me set up my new computer? I look at the parts to assemble the monitor stand, which are only about three in number, and I already feel defeated.

 

I revise my original question: Who will come to my house to set up my computer for me? If you're going to ask, ask big.

OLD COMPUTER, NEW COMPUTER

We are looking to buy a new desktop computer. The store where we had decided to buy the computer promised they would transfer my material from the old desktop to the new and clean the old computer for Grandpère to use. He doesn't do nearly as much on the computer as I do, and the old computer cleaned of my stuff should serve him well.

Well, it turns out that the store cannot do all that they promised, because the employees are only salesmen and not technicians. So we took our old computer back home and, by a miracle, I managed to get the plugs in the right place and get the old computer up and running again.

Now, I'm not sure I will purchase a computer from the store, and I will definitely need someone to do the transfer, because I do not want to lose what I have on my drive in an effort to do it myself. Please do not offer do-it-yourself advice to make the transfer, because I will not even try. Grandpère knows nothing about computers, so he's no help at all.

This post as a whine. Consider it not worth reading but simply as a diary post where I vented my frustration - top secret, for my eyes only.

UPDATE: The good news is that I believe I can set up the new computer on my own. I'll see about the rest.