I spent several hours yesterday trying to put my numbers into my tax file.  Our accountant sends us an organizer on line, we put in the numbers, when we're done we email it back and boom goes the dynamite, we're done.

I couldn't open the darn organizer.

I like to pretend that I can read and follow directions as well as anyone, but apparently I'm too stupid to do that.  I emailed the accountant no less than three times in growing frustration.  He gave me the passwords, codes, numbers etc that should have opened the file for me but I couldn't do it.  I know I was putting the numbered password in wrong, but by the two dozenth time it was obvious that my brain had decoded the numbers in it's own unique way and there was no way I could punch them in correctly.  Finally I had to decide between throwing my computer through the plate glass window in my living room or giving up and waiting for Jay to come home and do it for me.

I decided to wait for Jay because the way my day had been going I had a feeling that if I pitched the laptop, it would've bounced off the window, ricocheted back into the living room and most likely bonked me in the head.  That would've really made me mad.  It would've been funny though.  Maybe I made the wrong decision...



Last night I watched a movie with Josie.  It was an old movie starring Tom Hanks, whom she only knows as the voice of Woody.  The technology featured in the film was so old fashioned it made her snort with derisive laughter.

You haven't been properly derided till an eleven year old girl snorts at you.

The movie was You've Got Mail.

"What's with the phones?"  she asked me during the opening credits.

"That's dial up." I said.

"What?  What d'ya mean?"

"Back in the 90's, in order to get online you had to use your phone lines.  That's dial up."

"Snort."

It was funny enough that she had no idea what Murray was doing on the Mary Tyler Moore show, but You've Got Mail?  Technology really is moving at quite a clip.  That movie is nine years old.  Ancient, in other words.



Quote of the day:  "Al Gore may have a small carbon foot print, but he has a huge carbon butt print."
-Ann Coulter. 

 

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