The plot thickens (or not) RE: Since the list is so quiet....

If you're dealing with a wiggy person there's a certain security -- odds
are 99 out of 100 they're going to be wiggy in the same way... like tell
you about the listening devices in the wall, or the dangers of germs in
public toilets or doorknobs, or doorknobs in public toilets (they say
Donald Trump has a germ phobia, BTW), but if it's technology, ESPECIALLY
digitalics, there's simply no predicting and no consistency.

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon working my way through the tech
support personnel at Adobe, trying to figure out why the blinking
"acrobat" wouldn't distill a mere 100-page CMYK file... Each of the three
guys knew something, but none of them knew the whole thing -- the action
would "flush" (distiller's word) at page 50 or so. Logic said there was a
corrupted file at that point, but where, what? So I "distilled" in 10 page
increments--- and did the whole hundred pages just fine. The damn thing
just didn't want that much work at once. (But why the first attempt only
got the outermost left edge of the pages, none of them even attempted to
guess -- the slackers.)

So I'm done with that (until the next 100 pages, or 110 to be precise) and
decide to check e-mail to relax. I think I said yesterday, or day before
yesterday, or maybe it was last week, that the connection to my husband's
phone would connect, but my usual one to the kitchen phone wouldn't. But
today the husband's phone wouldn't oblige (no "hardware handshake"),
possibly because the connection (size of a matchbook with many wires &
receptacle for thumb plug) seemed to have gotten caught in the door, it
sort of stuck out, really dumb of it wouldn't you say?), so I tried my
phone again, no luck, but then I tried the center hole in what is not a
siamese connection, so let's call it a TRI-anese connection (the first
hole connects the answering machine, which worked the whole time), and it
connected.

The phones themselves had dial tones the whole time. So I will assume it's
something in the thumb plug of the wires that wrap around the lally column
that holds up our ceiling and runs down its length and across the floor to
the pit of coiled snakes that's the back of my computer. (Anyone who has
PF #1 can see the drawing on p. 31, including the outlines of a small
child and domestic animal swallowed therein...) I doubt a laptop could
cope, but having used a laptop once or twice I know I couldn't cope.
Sometimes I type 198 hours a day and those flat keyboards are instruments
of the devil -- and magnets for carpal tunnel. My daughter has a separate
keyboard, but even so, she doesn't have 108 peripherals, probably just a
printer, so laptop suffices.

Whichever, I believe I have done my bit for this list. There's not a
single person on it who can't feel superior to me in the field of
digitonics...That is, I have added to the sum total of human happiness,
which I do gladly whenever it's convenient. (I guess I didn't mention
that daughter has some kind of router rigmarole that I could connect to or
under or around, but anyone who thinks that stuff is trouble free is...
leading a charmed life. The thing is controlled by evil Verizon, tho tech
support sometimes comes from Canada, which may be a plus. Daughter said
that one time during the original hookup, this 12 year old (they're all 12
years old) in Canada had control of her system, and drew a couple of cute
funny faces on her screen in the interim, but his boss came along & saw
it, gave him hell. (I of course get no funny faces but my own...8 (

Anyway, I realize I'll have to do something about this problem, and I do
think I WILL go to radio shack & pick up a new phone anyway, reception on
this one has gotten very bad... if someone is talking on a cell I can't
understand a word they say...(though they understand me fine) -- I know we
have a radio shack around here somewhere, and I really really appreciate
the advice and concern... The term "moral supprt" is ambiguous, don't you
think? but you know what I mean... many THANKS !

Judy
Received on 08/11/06-11:29:13 PM Z