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General DiscussionsAuthor:MrsK Viewed:  174  
What Drives You To The Brink Of Hysteria - or Hysteria.   
 This morning I had one of those moments that nearly drove me over the edge. I have been keeping myself busy with schoolwork and other peoples school work over the last five or six weeks, making a couple of extra bucks here and there as compensation for the tutoring and fine tuning of research papers etc.


I have been enjoying it! And word of my literary/english skills has spread. I have a handful of students who email me thier assignments for me to fine tune for a small fee.


But this morning disaster struck. I worked on one research paper for three hours. The student I was doing it for was having a very hard time getting her ideas and research product through in a concise way. I had to revamp the entire paper pretty much. I started when I woke up at 3AM this morning. I worked feverishly, rearranging sentences, structuring ideas into paragraphs so that they weren't scattered in presentation, correcting simple errors etc. By 6AM the paper was PERFECT! PRIMO! Magnifique!!!


I had been saving all along, and saved again before closing out the window. I went made some coffee, caught the news, walked the dogs, fed the cats... Came back to the PC and opened my email. I typed up an email, and went to attach...

Attach....
Attach....

The paper was GONE. I don't mean in the recycle bin, or recent documents... I mean GONE. It was 8Am by this time I think, and I was in tears - I don't mean silnet sobbing tears, I was effing WAILING. I searched every file and folder I could get to, I did a search from the main search thingy. I screamed and beat on the desk, I caled my computer the motherless son of a pig... Nothing seemed to work.


Alas I called my sister the computer nerd and in streaming tears begged her to help me. she was unable to help me locate the file. Finally she said to me,

"Look, go have a ciggy, relax for a few minutes. Pet the cats, take a nap. then try again."


Well wouldn't you know it? Somehow my taking a nap seemed to solve EVERYTHING!!! SERIOUSLY!


I finally located the file in some very strange off the wall folder. Why it wasn't found in the massive search - I simply do not know. But I got the paper to the student a whole two days early, and all was well once again...

Replies
9/25/2008 3:06:56 PM   From:  Rani   yeah that would drive me buggy too, and what drives me buggy is when Tracy drills me on computer knowledge. I just look at him with a total female look of stupid and move on. I works sometimes. ITT people walk in a strange strange world.
9/25/2008 3:08:02 PM   From:  Rani   but he has made me become more aware of what I am saving and where I am saving it too, I got one word to say...Thank God for USB port thingies!
9/25/2008 3:09:52 PM   From:  eddo   I sometimes can't find things using the search either. Frankly, Windows sucks, but what are ya gonna do? Go Mac? BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Glad you found it.
9/25/2008 3:11:01 PM   From:  eddo   I about went nutty last night when I couldn't get my ipod to sync. I am new to this ipod thing still, and I just can't seem to get it to do what I want it to do, when I want it to do it.
9/25/2008 3:13:06 PM   From:  emkay64   Are you doing papers for students MrsK? Bad girl....
9/25/2008 3:14:18 PM   From:  emkay64   I seem to lose my wallet all the time....it's a daily sweat attack for me.
9/25/2008 3:14:27 PM   From:  Rani   And noooo I am not asking him how come the massive search did not find it, no way, I will spend the rest of the night in computer lecture hell. lol
9/25/2008 3:16:05 PM   From:  emkay64   Rani--I know what you mean...I get buggy too when Craig drills me :P
9/25/2008 3:29:18 PM   From:  Rani   It is a pain you just cannot get away from...I do just fine, most of the time, until he comes close, I think my computer gets nervous too cause that is when it will decide to show its computer bytes.
9/25/2008 3:30:15 PM   From:  doheney   well thank god it worked out all right once i screwed up the whole works trying to install an updated version of icq. my husband fixed it by resetting the whole computer back one week and everything was just as it had been before i screwed it up.
9/25/2008 3:34:22 PM   From:  Rani   well let me tell you something..there is a windows update, called windows live one care family safty, do not update that onto your computer, it has a virus in it and holy crap, the virus does not show up until you try to remove it, which tracy had me do because we don't use that program. Window does not like that...does not like that at all, and do not try to restore you will only make it worse. It apparantly was an easy fix for Tracy but had me pulling my hair out. He does stuff like that to me all the time too..tell me to do something like that knowing I am gonna screw it up!
9/25/2008 4:24:07 PM   From:  sk8r   omg.. thankgoodness you found it.. dont ya just love naps.. they are amazing
9/25/2008 5:31:06 PM   From:  MrsK   Yes naps are amazing. lol! And Rani and Em I know EXACTLY what you are going through, because David is the exact same way! When I see him this weekend I will tell him about this and he will drill me for an hour. then he will go into tech mode and start explaining what I did wrong, why computers only do what we tell them to do, the languages of the computer, how to "talk" to the computer next time (sans the motherless pig comment), and how I was all wrong even though I finally found the file, because I probably offended the computer.
9/25/2008 5:32:00 PM   From:  MrsK   I think he likes computers better than he likes people.
9/25/2008 5:37:12 PM   From:  Rani   Tracy says next time Windows Desktop search, and wants to know what software you are using to do the reports? I got caught...dang it!
9/25/2008 5:39:08 PM   From:  Rani   he wants to know what you named it, and all sorts of stuff, you have his interest. A full list in detail please.
9/25/2008 5:53:08 PM   From:  mercury   chris, at least twice a day. He's the most computer incompetent, easily intimidated by an electric box person I've ever met. "Can you type this e-mail for me?" "Can you respond to this ad?" "Can you wipe my butt?" He'll jump into playing with a saw that will chew his finger off in a split second, but push some harmless keys??? NOOOOOOOO.
9/25/2008 5:53:28 PM   From:  mercury   glad you found your file? don't you hate that?
9/25/2008 5:53:48 PM   From:  mercury   *no question mark on that first one.... I was on a roll* ;o)
9/25/2008 6:09:27 PM   From:  MrsK   Word
9/25/2008 6:44:43 PM   From:  Darkanda   In the main search option, you are given the chance to search in hidden files, do it. And don't make the search so specific next time.
9/25/2008 7:10:24 PM   From:  eddo   if it came with a virus, then it wasn't from Windows. Bill Gates is the most evil man alive, but he don't do that.
9/25/2008 7:14:19 PM   From:  emkay64   Rani---my comment was a big dirty sexual innuendo....you guys don't know me at all....
9/25/2008 7:17:05 PM   From:  mercury   I've got some yahoo virus that's really pissing me off. I've dumped, reloaded, upgraded, searched and still can't find how these people are over-riding my settings and constantly sending spam.
9/25/2008 7:28:19 PM   From:  eddo   "losing my wallet" is great big sexual innuendo? Damn, I need to get married...
9/25/2008 7:30:13 PM   From:  eddo   and I get lots of spam in yahoo too, both in my e-mail and on messenger.
9/25/2008 7:31:53 PM   From:  Rani   lol emkay, I got it...
9/25/2008 7:35:52 PM   From:  mercury   the mail, I don't care about... that's exactly why it exists. The messenger I have set to only accept messages from people on my list, then in comes someone NOT on my list. I go in and check my settings, and sure enough, it's been changed to accept messages from anyone. My virus scans haven't found anything in months, either.
9/25/2008 7:36:47 PM   From:  mercury   I think I just need to break down and reformat this thing...
9/25/2008 7:40:11 PM   From:  Rani   I never have any trouble from yahoo
9/25/2008 7:43:58 PM   From:  mercury   it all started last August when some stupid spyware got installed with a download I had done for editing video. It wasn't even compatible with Vista, so it was a total waste. I did a complete HouseCall scan last Sunday and the damn thing ran for 11.5 hours and found NOTHING.
9/25/2008 7:57:06 PM   From:  Rani   we have AVG, Tracy swears by it.
9/25/2008 7:59:03 PM   From:  Rani   I got a trojin once from a search engine, simply went to the wrong place...it was a demon virus thing...Internet antivirus. Gave me trouble for the longest time until I found the file that actually had the trojan in it and deleted it. Havn't had a problem since.
9/25/2008 8:01:30 PM   From:  Rani   My better half believes the guilty culpret was MySpace even though I know better because I know where I went and what I was looking for when it happened. Anyway, it resulted in bye bye MySpace.
9/25/2008 8:25:51 PM   From:  eddo   a computer geek at church swears by AVG too Rani. I installed it on my work computer, but I don't go anywhere risky on there anyway (don't really on this computer either)
9/25/2008 8:32:57 PM   From:  mercury   I'll have to look into that. I have PC-cillian and spy sweeper. Spy sweeper never finds anything.... it's useless.
9/25/2008 8:54:39 PM   From:  Rani   Ah, computer Geeks united they stand! lol
9/26/2008 1:41:44 AM   From:  DarkCrow   F'n computers. Can't live with em, can't live without em. In any case, glad you were able to find it!
9/26/2008 4:58:45 AM   From:  MrsK   Thanks DC. I have a virus on my laptop that I can't get rid of. It is driving me batty! I get spam pop ups constantly. Not the little window popups, WHOLE HONKIN PAGE pop ups. I have AVG and SuperAntiSpywear and have been running scans for days. They just keep finding more and more and more infected files.
9/26/2008 6:00:51 AM   From:  PapaBryant   And word of my literary/english skills has spread. I have a handful of students who email me <BOLD>thier</BOLD and snickering too> assignments for me to fine tune for a small fee.
9/26/2008 6:17:56 AM   From:  MrsK   Hey, I never said I don't use speeelle cheke
9/26/2008 6:37:08 AM   From:  MrsK   Besides, it isn't like I typed half the papers or the post in CAPS or anything. :P
9/26/2008 7:19:35 AM   From:  timesjoke   You mean you actually come in and out of Hysteria? Darn, I never would have guessed that.
9/26/2008 7:24:25 AM   From:  Kethria   Antivir is your friend. Glad you found the file Mrs.K
9/26/2008 8:11:44 AM   From:  Ali   I have a love/hate relationship with technology. Glad you found the paper.
9/26/2008 8:15:46 AM   From:  MrsK   Yeah my gas tank actually got half way thanks to that paper. Six weeks in classes and they've still not released my student loan to me. Every time I cll about it they invent a new form I didn't fill out. It is very irritating.

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