Monthly Archives:February 2007

nope – not a typo . . . Valentine’s Day has gotten so way out of control – way beyond what it was started to be – it has been taken over by the H’mark folks and the ad agencies and the newspapers . . . case in point – this morning the local rag had a page full of v-day greetings . . . from people to their PETS! for heaven’s sake!

Folks, I know I am NOT an animal person. I like them as long as they belong to someone else – I REALLY like to be able to get up and go without having to worry about what to do with fido or princess – who will feed them – who will water them – who will shovel their piles of love?

But, even if I were an animal person, they would NOT be getting a v-day greeting from me in the local rag – to the tune of $50 or so . . . I don’t even spend that on my hubby. (he agrees with me that it is a made up holiday – erm, maybe it began when I agreed with HIM that it was a made up holiday – well, whatever) We sort of agree to agree that the cards and flowers and chocolates (wait! he can give me CHOCOLATES! what was I thinking?!) are not necessary. We’ve been together a good long time and we tolerate – that is, we love each other still.

CHOCOLATES ARE OKAY!!! bring ’em on. Heh

I just spent two hours at my dentist – teeth are nice and shiny and squeaky clean – bring on the choccies, baby. 😛

actually . . . a really nice v-day surprise would be my computer home and on my desk! Talked with the techs a bit ago – it is now on the bench (ooh baby – shine those lights) and has not missed a beat since they started her up! Wha???? Okay, fine then. Lessa was right when she said that maybe she just needed to visit the techs. The major tech, Chuckles, said that she is showing them the love! Harumph! I want the love!

😛 :moose:

I miss my computer.

My hubby is sweet – he lets me use his to check email and such.

It’s not the same as having my own.

My baby is still sitting on the floor at the computer hospital and won’t even make it to the counter until tomorrow (at the earliest) or Wednesday.

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sniff 

ah well, enjoy, everyone! I’ll be back again soon. (I hope)

:moose:

They are varicolored and so much fun to line up so they will go POOF! Bright colors of blue, red, yellow, green . . . with blue or brown eyes and impish smiles.:)

What have they to smile about? You might well wonder.

They smile just because . . .
     . . . they love to play with your mind 😉
     . . . they love to see you become addicted to their ploys 😛
     . . . they love to fritz your hard drive! 0==(D)

Oh yes, you read that right . . . their nickname from now on shall be Puffballs of Doom!

Of course, that is NOT the moniker they hold over on msn.com – nope, THERE they are known as Chuzzles (R). Go on, take a peek – don’t they look innocent? I tell you, they are NOT! Nay, my friends, they are evil little creatures.

and I am addicted . . . hello, my name is moosie and I’m a chuzzleholic.

they are SO much fun to play with. Until . . .

they break your computer! My computer, she don’t compute no more. Last night – right in the midst of a chuzzlefest, the screen froze. Oh, it has happened before when I was merrily deleting chuzzle after chuzzle. It is SO MUCH FUN to see their little eyes follow my mouse – SO MUCH FUN for me to see the little puffs of (virtual) smoke when they are eliminated from the board.

But last night I was unable to get my computer back up and running. Instead I was caught in the blue screen of death loop – first it was the scan disk blue screen – and then it was a blue screen that told me my registry had been repaired and I would have to restart the computer. I click that okay and after a few (very long) seconds I find myself back at the FIRST blue screen of death.

I knew I should have printed out that interview I did last night BEFORE starting the game of grabbing and eliminating the cute little Puffballs of Doom!

but nooooooooooooooooooooooo

I had to play first.

Gave up after an hour of so of the looped blue screens of death and went out to watch the news and do some knitting. Finally said to myself, “moosie! Go to bed. It won’t matter if you sit here all night trying to fix this. Because you know you can’t. It is either going to heal itself or you are going to have to take it to the masters to do the healing. Go to bed, for goodness’ sake!”

and so I did – and powered her up this morning to see if a great healing had taken place . . . only to find . . .

looping blue screens of death yet again. My computer, she is in the hospital now. But, the MAN – Luke!!! – he recovered the one time sensitive interview that I needed. Bless you, Luke! And, many thanks.

hmmmmm – wonder if I can get an upgrade to Vista – or will I have to buy a whole new computer?????

stay tuned.