Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Bad Day it Twas

Was Obama born in the US ? See today's Pigeon Falls and get the answer.

Yesterday was one of those days one could easily do without.
I got up early so I could enter Quilly’s contest but before I could enter it we had crisis number one.
The wireless printer was down and my daughter who was going back to work needed some medical forms printed out.
So I worked on that until I got the printer back on line.
At that point my computer fell off line and I had to reboot.
Pennie still couldn’t print so she e-mailed me the documents so I could print them for her but she mailed them as *.doc files and I don’t have Microsoft Word.
I could get the words but not the formatting with wordpad.
So while she tried to find some other form to send them in I went looking for a program that would print *.doc documents.
Twice in that process I lost my internet connection.
Then I found one as time was running out. It was free.
I downloaded it and printed two of the three documents.
The last one refused to print. So I tried a Microsoft solution. I turned off the computer. When I brought it back on line the document printed as it started up.
So we got them to Pennie and sent her off with Betty to get blood drawn and then to go to work.
My internet connection was gone again. Reboot.
By then I forgot all about Quilly and started finishing up the changes to the Church website that I didn’t have time to finish Sunday.
Three more reboots and I was finishing that when I heard the door slam and Betty was back.
It seems Peenie needed a letter from the Doctor and it got left here.
But in the chaos left by five grandkids she couldn’t find it and went back to the hospital without it.
She got the blood taken anyway.
But as Betty was taking her to her office her Doctor called and need to talk to her about changing the medication based on today’s blood test.
I called her cell phone and left a message.
Betty called both the cell phone and the office, with no answer. So we didn’t know if she was calling the Doctor or not.
That’s when Betty started screaming because Maggie peed on our brand new couch. She had never done anything like that before.
I called a lady who indicated an interest in the old couch but, of course , she was not home.
Back to the internet.
Went finally to Quilly’s blog. Might as well have skipped that. I got the answer wrong and I spelled my wrong answer wrong so I looked even dumber.
Lunch time and we had leftovers from Sunday. I had a rubber hamburger and what Betty had didn’t look much better.
Back to the internet. Reboot.
Decided to visit all of friends links.
Got five visits in and suddenly blogger said my computer was sending out some kind of bad signal so they were protecting their customers from me. Then they wouldn’t even let me go to my blog.
Tried a reboot and that didn’t help at all.
So now I could get to the internet but not to my blog.’So I turned off the computer and pounded on the desk top. ( not really but I wanted too)
When I started it up fifteen minutes later it was back to normal so I went back to visiting blogs.
The only problem now was that about every six blogs the internet vanished and I had to reboot. It was weird.
At 4 o’clock I compared notes with Betty and we decided this was a spaghetti day.
We could feel the spaghetti running down our head.
But once named its power was gone and instead of crying we sat and laughed.
Through it all it was still God’s Day.

22 Comments:

Anonymous quilly said...

Spaghetti days make for great blog posts. I laughed all the way through this one.

AND, as to your misspelling, I corrected it on my blog. You can thank Amoeba for that. I had no idea what you were trying to say, he told me. Now that I understand, I think your pun was funnier than mine.

2:29 AM  
Blogger Bill ~ {The Old Fart} said...

Sorry that you had a Bad Day Dr John, I hope that your new day will be much better.

Sorry that I haven't been updating my friends, I'll send you guys an email with what is happening.

Somehow I feel this door is closing, but I feel that a new door will be opening soon.

Will explain in the email.

2:45 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Here few times when I open few blog/s many windows open automatically And the only option I have then is to reboot the machine. I dont know why it happens sometimes. That is why I stop visiting few blogs.

4:56 AM  
Blogger Diana said...

It seems you had one of THOSE days. I do believe God blesses us with Those days to keep us on our toes! I laughed as I envisioned you pounding on your desk. I always want to pick up the monitor and chuck it into the street. My Pastor always reminds me that that is the wrong part to chuck! But I always tell him that that's the part that I can SEE having troubles! Funny Post!

5:04 AM  
Blogger Lou said...

Blogger is on the fritz. We are all having problems, although I did not have to reboot, just close out of blogger and go back in. Days like this, the universe is saying "stay off the computer."

Today is a NEW day, and I looove your attitude.

5:27 AM  
Blogger Tina said...

I hope today is much better for you. Though I have to admit that I lol'd most of the way through your post. Someone else's problems are always funny :)

5:47 AM  
Blogger LoieJ said...

I didn't have problems with blogger. Maybe you have a virus or one of those mal-ware things. Run both AVG (free anti-virus program and Ad-Aware (free mal-ware program.)

I didn't laugh at your post; I felt your "pain." (((Dr. John))) hugs!

6:04 AM  
Blogger Melli said...

You know, it was just such a day that got my home (and my blog) it's name! It gets to a point where it's just no good to be upset any longer! Just give in and LAUGH! I do admit... I was gigglin' right from the start! (I think I mighta WANTED to kill Maggie though!) She definitely would have spent time in the pen! :)

7:23 AM  
Blogger B.R.L said...

YOu know what you should do with that day...
REBOOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha ha

7:30 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't want to sound mean or nasty but I'm so glad things like that happen to other people. It is so frustrating to have days like that especially with computer. When you said you pounded the desk top I thought YEAH!!! but then alas...you didn't. That error about not visiting your blog was it a ping back error or something like that. It was all over last week or the week before.I couldn't get on for a while to any bloggger blog. Ever since then my google reader has been acting strange as well. And it didn't matter if I used Firefox or Internet Explorer. Glad everything got taken care of and I enjoyed the spaghetti post :)

7:34 AM  
Blogger Family Man said...

WOW, I hope today is much better. The master of all intenet Google, has google docs, which can open word files, as well as open office, openoffice.org.

I hope your daughter got everything she needed straightened out, and that today's lunch will not be rubber!

8:27 AM  
Blogger Akelamalu said...

Oh my, what a day you had! Hope things have settled down now. :)

11:44 AM  
Blogger Vicky said...

Just had to stop in and visit. My what a day you had and so glad you could see it for what it is, a blessing, despite the messiness of it. Great way of looking at it, as always! Take care!

12:01 PM  
Blogger Baron's Life said...

Surely sounds like you had a spaghetti day...sorry you had so much trouble Dr. John...you don't deserve it, but on the other hand, you got some good training from the school of hard knocks...
Cheers

12:21 PM  
Blogger Dulçe ♥ said...

Yours are really busy days! They are.

1:56 PM  
Blogger Jeni said...

Just shows that optimism again is the winner!
Rubber hamburger, huh? You're really lucky you weren't digging in my refrigerator for leftovers -some of them may have moss growing on them. Ah, but maybe I could turn that into penicillin, huh?
I really did get a lot of giggles out of reading this piece. Been there, done similar things -when computers don't cooperate fully - many a time!

5:28 PM  
Blogger Voegtli said...

Well, sometimes one has days like that.

In case you are in need of writing a lot of documents or printing of doc-files and you don't have Microsoft Office, there is a good solution, equivalent: OpenOffice. It is free of charge, absolutely great and since I use it, I ask myself why did I bother during 15 years about Microsoft Office.

7:53 PM  
Blogger Maude Lynn said...

That's just the kind of day that drives me crazy!

8:44 PM  
Blogger anthonynorth said...

I had one of those days on Monday. Problems with the internet all day. It's so annoying.

2:26 AM  
Blogger Sue said...

Never heard that before but you can be sure I'll remember it.. A spagetti day!

6:24 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Great way of looking at it, as always! Take care!


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1:56 AM  
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11:29 PM  

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