More geek news.....not

Yesterday I lost my blog due to a strange request to login before publishing. On Tuesday I ventured into my ADD and REMOVE program to remove the trial version of Microsoft Office that had expired last week.

CAN OF WORMS could be the expression one might use when viewing the process of removing anything that says MICROSOFT.

I should know better but then again reality and perceived reality are truly two different worlds.

Before I had installed the two month trial version....I had MICROSOFT WORD in my system which was part of the XP program from 2003. After the trial version ended I no longer had my original WORD program so I figured if I REMOVED the trial version from the ADD AND REMOVE PORTION OF MY CONTROL PANEL.....THAT MY ORIGINAL WORD WOULD BE RESTORED.

WRONG

ALL MY PREVIOUS WORD FILES CAME BACK AS WORD PAD FILES...which I don't work in.

So this morning I decided to do a SYSTEM RESTORE BACK TO MONDAY AND SEE IF WORD FILES WOULD REAPPEAR

YES AND NO

THEY APPEAR....BUT MY WINDOWS INSTALLER DOES NOT WANT TO INSTALL ANYTHING....and a little note came up that said I needed to call Bill Gates at a private number so that I could be reprimanded for not buying the NEW OFFICE PACKAGE after testing it for two months.

OF COURSE I WISH I HAD BOUGHT THE NEW OFFICE PACKAGE....JUST LIKE I WISH I HAD A LEAR JET AND A PRIVATE YACHT AND NO MORE WAR ON THE PLANET AND ON AND ON....

One thing I hate to admit but I will.......THE NEW VERSION OF WORD IS.....
KILLER
AMAZING
and
WONDERFUL
and I will eventually get it....but since I refuse to download illegally...I'll have to wait by the side of cyperhighwayhell and whistle a different tune.....a tune that has something to do with WORD PAD.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EXERCISED THE SYSTEM RESTORE COMMAND AND IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE SOMETHING ONE WANTS TO DO UNLESS THERE IS A MAJOR
PROBLEM

THIS WAS A MINOR ISSUE THAT I'VE MADE INTO A MAJOR ISSUE AND I WOULD IMAGINE THAT IN THE WORLD OF COMPUTER STUPIDITY....THAT THIS IS NOT AN IRREGULAR OCCURRENCE.

Those of us that have exterior knowledge of the computer should never dick around with the interior knowledge without having either a techie....or a book....close by.....or of course...... a hammer.

The fact that I've been driving this machine every day for the last five years and have no idea how to change the oil is truly an indication that I'm not only not a geek.....I'm not even a fauxgeek.

THERE ARE THINGS I CAN DO WITH CERTAIN COMPUTER PROGRAMS BUT THOSE THINGS ARE CREATIVE THINGS AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE SYSTEM.

THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE SYSTEM......SCARE ME TO THE POINT, THAT I DON'T GO THERE. Which was compounded a few years ago when I started messing in the Administration Area and had no machine for three months.

I NEED TO RE-PROGRAM MY PROGRAM
and
LEARN
HOW
TO
FIX
SMALL
PROBLEMS
INSIDE
THE
MACHINE

OF COURSE THIS IS THE SAME PHILOSOPHY THAT GOT ME BURNED A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN THE INFAMOUS BLUE SCREEN FROM MICROSOFT BECAME MY CONSTANT COMPANION.

Somehow all my dicking around ( a few years ago) fried the MOMMAboard and a few little babyboards and numerous other ingredients.

BUT I NEED TO VENTURE BACK UP THE MOUNTAIN AND SCALE THE HEIGHTS OF WINDOW AWARENESS.

OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE AT THIS POINT DO HAVE A SLIGHT MENTAL MOMENT OF WONDERING......HUMMMMMM.......APPLE?

But I'm fairly certain that I'm way too stupid to make that type of switch....even though I keep being told that, as an artist, I would love the MAC stuff.

I THINK LOVE MIGHT BE A STRONG WORD....BECAUSE BEFORE LOVING I WOULD HAVE TO START AT THE VERY BEGINNING AND LEARN ABOUT LIKING.

At this point I'm just trying to figure out how to get WORD 1997-2003 back into my reality......I know it's in there somewhere, in the deep recesses of an XP artificial brain......
and maybe if I just take the hammer and give it a slight tap......

OPPS....that didn't sound good!

MICHAEL TIMOTHY MC ALEVEY