Whine About it Wednesday!
This week’s whine is all about computer woes and the crap I don’t have time for.Â
I don’t have time to replace the router that went out or replace the printer which has decided that dragging the paper in crooked and creating a jam every time we try to print something is its new favorite thing. The problem is, I need to fix both. The router connects my laptop and the kids’ computer to the internet. It enables me to email my document back and forth so that I always have a back-up of my work-in-progress. Furthermore, I bore easily so I work between the computers all the time. Butt gets sore on the couch? Move to the office. Office starts feeling too small? Move to the recliner. Rock myself sick in the recliner? Move back to the office. I know this sounds like a little thing, but I am a creature of habit, used to doing things the way I like them and saving this baby to the jump-drive and going back and forth between the computers is a pain in the ass. I don’t trust the jump drive. Irrational? Yes. But I can’t help myself.
As for the printer, I whined earlier this week about the Science Fair Projects which are due tomorrow. I’ve had to give up a lot of computer time to them over the past few days while they pulled their projects together–I have red cabbage stains in my sink and lemons with wires sticking out of them on my dining room table–and the kids have drained the ink cartridges trying to get a decent print out of the various pictures and reports to go along with their crap, er projects. If my router hadn’t quit and the printer worked, all of this would have been fine. As it is…not so fine. Deadline is looming and son’s 8th Grade trip to DC is next week. So’s my birthday. Hmmm. Wonder if I should ask for a new router and printer? 
******Addendum to the whine: Grackles are swarming my feeders, eating all my birdseed and chasing away my songbirds! Argh!!!
******Addendum to the addendum: Have had some sort of allergic reaction–to what, who knows–and my eyelids have doubled in size since I got up this morning. Whah!!! 
February 28th, 2007 at 8:55 am
It sounds really bad at your place. I feel for you girly. I don’t have a whine right now, so I will have to get back to ya. Have a nice Whiny Wednesay morning…
February 28th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Sending you a hug. I swear, without fail everything goes to hell in handbasket when it’s a deadline week and we need it running smoothly.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I don’t have a whine either… but the day is young.
Go buy a new printer — they’re cheap. And if I can install a printer, anyone can. Routers? That’s the DH’s department and if he wants to stay online, he has to make sure the one sitting on my desk is working. So far, so good.
February 28th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
What’s a grackle? Sounds creepy.
February 28th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Grackles are black birds. They’re bully birds. They run off the sweet little song birds and can clean a feeder in just a few minutes.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
I understand and can sympathize. I had to get the local phone companies tech support out here to fix my router problem. The dsl modem they issued me is a combination router too….take into consideration I have a wireless router for my daughters computer. The two simply would not work together. Tech guy had to come hook his laptop up to the router and login and disable something. Anyway, finally after two weeks of fretting over this, we now have them both working.
This is awesome because it means children have no reason being in my office on my computer! 
February 28th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Okay, here’s my whine…..
I am so tired of our Lanier copier NOT working. Especially right now, when exams are being given and having to walk across campus to the print shop. It didn’t work all day Monday, Tuesday you could run copies, no duplexes, but it would staple anything. The repair guys were here twice yesterday and today we haven’t seen ANYONE over here. Unfortunately the contract on this machine is not up until June and we pretty much have to take whatever’s dished out to us by the repairmen… 
February 28th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
ps….it wouln’t staple and still will not staple anything and is jamming the machine too.