"Paul, You scare me." Boy, I wish I had a dime for every time I've heard that. (Would accept a nickel from Mother for each.)
I'm sorry. I don't have a Y2K problem, and I should not have invoked such a hostile, festeringly fearsome, and just plain annoying image ~ I was just thinking it could be Y2K before I get my puter problem solved.
Usually when I run into problems like these I get a newer computer, because I can talk techie into coming and setting up a newby.
I REALLY appreciate your offering me your firstborn; but I'm used to "paying" for these repairs with prissy beers and snappy conversation, and the usefulness of either would probly be in doubt for him.
And there's the concept of selecting help requests/helpers carefully; because if the problem has a simple solution, a real techie will...well, ridicule you; or just fix it and get up and quietly leave, head down, with a clear balloon over their head that says "You brought me up here for this?" It's a "careful scaling" problem; not something to risk on a first date. If they're half-potted and interested in some mine samples you brought home, or some antique window glass, or pachypodums or rhododendron sutchuense being in bloom, you have a chance of smoothing things over ~ but no one can guarantee a techie will share their particular interests in objects or "witty paradigms".
(Hey, you're not the only one who's scared.) |
