It has not been a terribly productive week. I’ve had a cold dragging me down and have been too exhausted to do much beyond lay in bed and doze. I have lots of ideas dancing around in my head and no energy to get them down on paper.
There’s another topic. There are days when I wish I could write my stories out longhand on paper and skip the computer entirely. Our computer required some maintenance this week and it should have been an easy fix. All it needed was a new power supply (fan died) and to have Windows reloaded. We threw in a RAM upgrade for kicks. That was when the fun started.
I was once enrolled in a computer program because I thought that I wanted to be a computer tech. I like using computers and I like teaching others how to use computers. I do not however like to fix computers. I swear there are gremlins inside them – you fix one problem and four more appear.
Have you ever tried to work on a computer that just cuts off and restarts itself at random intervals? It’s not easy. After several hours wasted reloading device drivers and other software, we finally determined that it was the new RAM chip causing the problems. The computer was rejecting it – sort of like an organ transplant, it wasn’t totally compatible. We had the chip switched out and everything seems to be functioning again.
Now, if only the cold would go away…
Love computers, but when I get stuck, I haul out the old pen and paper. Sometimes I write better that way.
by anny cook May 31st, 2007 at 3:47 amI can take notes that way but I can’t seem to write that way – I write a sentence, go back and change a word, write another sentence, delete the first sentence. Two steps forward, one step back the whole time. Self editing as I go. It would make for one MESSY piece of paper!
by Jenyfer Matthews June 1st, 2007 at 6:16 am