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roseembolism) wrote2004-12-05 10:54 pm
roseembolism) wrote2004-12-05 10:54 pm
It's like dealing with a monkey...
A big, hairy monkey NAMED STAN!
But that's how it usually starts. When my mother says "He was trying to help" I tend to wince.
When I was talking with my brother at the coffee shop, and he asked me the completely innocuous question about which was cheaper, local dial-up or Cox Cable broadband, I thought it was just out of idle curiosity. But noooo, the little hamster in his brain had gone off its Ritalin, and was cranking up its wheel.
I received a call a week later from my mother. Stan had had been visiting, and left before he could send the resume he created on my mother's laptop to his own e-mail address, and for some reason neither my sister nor my brother-in-law (both engineers) could find time to send it off. Of course the two of them have a bizarre technophobia concerning computers, so that didn't seem so odd. So despite faint misgivings, I agreed to come over and send off the message, thinking it would only be the work of a couple minutes.
Silly me.
See, without asking me beforehand, my brother went and added a cable broadband LAN to my mother's computer (Cue massive line of duct tape crossing my mother's nice carpet). Which is all very well, except when I tried sending my brother's resumes to him, Firefox insisted on trying to connect with the dialup connection. NOTHING I could do could get either Firefox or Windows to recognize the cable as the default connection. And so the five minute job turned into a full hour of frustration.
Finally, I gave up and managed to reconnect the dialup, and sent off his resume. And so now Mom is paying for both cable and broadband. And I have no idea what I can do to correct the situation.
Gaah. MONKEY!
But that's how it usually starts. When my mother says "He was trying to help" I tend to wince.
When I was talking with my brother at the coffee shop, and he asked me the completely innocuous question about which was cheaper, local dial-up or Cox Cable broadband, I thought it was just out of idle curiosity. But noooo, the little hamster in his brain had gone off its Ritalin, and was cranking up its wheel.
I received a call a week later from my mother. Stan had had been visiting, and left before he could send the resume he created on my mother's laptop to his own e-mail address, and for some reason neither my sister nor my brother-in-law (both engineers) could find time to send it off. Of course the two of them have a bizarre technophobia concerning computers, so that didn't seem so odd. So despite faint misgivings, I agreed to come over and send off the message, thinking it would only be the work of a couple minutes.
Silly me.
See, without asking me beforehand, my brother went and added a cable broadband LAN to my mother's computer (Cue massive line of duct tape crossing my mother's nice carpet). Which is all very well, except when I tried sending my brother's resumes to him, Firefox insisted on trying to connect with the dialup connection. NOTHING I could do could get either Firefox or Windows to recognize the cable as the default connection. And so the five minute job turned into a full hour of frustration.
Finally, I gave up and managed to reconnect the dialup, and sent off his resume. And so now Mom is paying for both cable and broadband. And I have no idea what I can do to correct the situation.
Gaah. MONKEY!