And by lots, I mean about 9, again.

 

Good thing I'm not a slacker!

 

So we begin the morning with one of the last 6 winME systems in existence. She can't use the latest Avast, firefox or malwarebytes. Super. But she just needed her old Avast relicensed, which I did. My goodness that machine was slow. Having to book at least an hour and a half, because I didn't know what her problem was, (We had left messages back and forth because she works nights), left me time to get home. Viewed my websites. Called the prison outreach and at last talked to someone. So that's friday morning, and perhaps part of the afternoon gone. 

 

The next one was just five minutes away, setting up a new MacBook. Which would be fine, if HP stuff was worth a darn. Trying to connect it to the wireless kept hanging it up. Yes, hanging up A PRINTER. It wouldn't turn off, wouldn't respond to pushing the buttons, aarg! I looked it up, and apparently it's a pretty common problem! And yet they still sell these things? One solution was to have an SSID exactly 12 characters long, which of course makes perfect sense because when things go wrong, just try stuff at random until it works. This works because the universe is random, and random is as random does, and that's what that's all about. And it did, I guess. Still, the view up there was amazing. It was high overlooking the bay, with tiny toy boats lazily sailing to and fro like a picture.

 

Then a guy who had a pretty rough time of it lately, what with a faulty heart valve, trouble breathing, and being on a cruise. But he lived to tell the tale, which he did upon my arrival. Then I got to work. He had changed, or someone had changed, his smtp settings while he was in florida to comcast and he didn't know how to change them back. So he had 116 outgoing messages to send. And my grandmother says she has nothing to do. Forward mail to people! Oh, right, you don't know anyone. Anyway, so I did that, and checked out his desktop machine which, oh look, had an antivirus a million years out of date. It's not tough people, it's one little string of digits you have to get, and put in. *sigh*

 

Lastly installing some RAM for a guy and updating AOL because apparently he's stuck in a time warp and still thinks it's 1990. But whatever. Sped his machine up by removing AVG 8.5 and putting in Avast!, you know, the normal stuff I do.

 

Home! Got some money in the mail from a lady I helped over the phone even though I said she didn't owe me anything, so thanks for that. Gave a half hearted scream/groan when I saw the number of calls I had, and ate dinner.

 

So I have six places to stop at tomorrow, which I'm sure is both physically possible, ascetically pleasing, and will not turn me huge and green and give me infinite strength.  And I still didn't get to everyone because I left a few messages and didn't get called back, so pile those on tomorrow with what I get as new tomorrow. Oh, and the inevitable calls by those that called me yesterday like I was going to forget to call them back the next day.

 

I know, whine whine whine, it's what you come here to read, don't deny it. Reading about my problems makes you feel better about yours, and don't say it doesn't because I know.