Planet Hell. Well, not quite.
My sister is heading out tomorrow and spending a few days with Pan in a huge city in the next state over. Pan is starting a master's program at a college there (I think), and my sister and one of her friends are helping Pan move in. Sometimes I wonder how much Pan actually does for my sister besides demanding her time. Admittedly, all I hear from my sister is "Pan asked me to do this, Pan asked me to do that, oh, she's so great." I wish my sister would think a little bit about what she's actually doing and getting out of it. I mean, if she's actually enjoying slaving away for Pan, then good, go for it. But if she didn't realize just how much she is doing for Pan, then maybe she should reconsider it. She's definitely driving my mom up a wall with it. Now, the heading to the city and not really having a plan. That's smart. She didn't know when she was coming home or how she was getting home. She didn't tell my mom any of this until the last minute. Smooth. Ugh, my sister has no common sense at all.
In other news, both my mom and sister are technological retards. I installed Windows Vista, Business Edition on my mom's computer (as well as put more RAM and a video card in it, as a Christmas present). Getting her up to date on that was a major chore. She didn't know how to download stuff onto the computer!!! I was so baffled by that. My mom has taken multiple computer courses through the school she teaches at. She does pretty well as far as word documents and stuff like that goes. Anything else though - nada. Any new message (error, warning, notification, anything) makes her very worried and she has to ask me about it. I asked her what she did while I was at school, and she said that she basically left the computer alone, and didn't install anything. This confused me so much. Why are people so mistrustful of computers? Just read what the messages say, think about what you want to accomplish, and pick the best answer. I guess I just "get" computers for the most part.
My sister has asked me to make her a bunch of CDs of music she likes, and I graciously agreed. She gave me one list, I got most of the music on it (through Limewire for the most part). I ask her if she has a list of what she wants on each CD, and she gives me a whole new list! I was like, well ok, gonna take a while. You'll have it by the end of J-Term. She agreed to that. Then she was trying to download pictures onto my mom's computer from her camera, and the computer spazzed out. Apparently, Vista wasn't cooperating. I told her to give me the software for her camera, and we could download the rest of the pics onto my comp, and burn them to CDs from that. I did this, and then she had to get the other pics from my mom's comp. She didn't realize that you could use a USB key to do this. She then asked me how she could select all of the pics at once. I was so confused - she hadn't found out how to move her pictures around at all? She's had her camera for over a year now. How did she not find out how to move files into different folders? I had to explain all of the different file selection options to her, and then she had to sort the files on the CD by date, and that took her forever, due to a confusion about the touchpad on my laptop, and basic nervousness about the computer. Ugh. She thought the computer would explode if she didn't take the USB key out right! . . . well, I don't think she was totally serious about that part, but she did say it! So annoying.
Earlier today, I was talking to my sister about her best friend who likes me (call her Betty). Now, I've known Betty since 8th grade or so. Apparently, in 10th grade, when my sister dated my best friend for a brief period, Betty started to like me. I had no clue of this! I only was informed of Betty's interest in me this past semester. Strange. Maybe I'm just dense.
Well, that's the situation of things with me. I can't wait to get back to school.
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In other news, both my mom and sister are technological retards. I installed Windows Vista, Business Edition on my mom's computer (as well as put more RAM and a video card in it, as a Christmas present). Getting her up to date on that was a major chore. She didn't know how to download stuff onto the computer!!! I was so baffled by that. My mom has taken multiple computer courses through the school she teaches at. She does pretty well as far as word documents and stuff like that goes. Anything else though - nada. Any new message (error, warning, notification, anything) makes her very worried and she has to ask me about it. I asked her what she did while I was at school, and she said that she basically left the computer alone, and didn't install anything. This confused me so much. Why are people so mistrustful of computers? Just read what the messages say, think about what you want to accomplish, and pick the best answer. I guess I just "get" computers for the most part.
My sister has asked me to make her a bunch of CDs of music she likes, and I graciously agreed. She gave me one list, I got most of the music on it (through Limewire for the most part). I ask her if she has a list of what she wants on each CD, and she gives me a whole new list! I was like, well ok, gonna take a while. You'll have it by the end of J-Term. She agreed to that. Then she was trying to download pictures onto my mom's computer from her camera, and the computer spazzed out. Apparently, Vista wasn't cooperating. I told her to give me the software for her camera, and we could download the rest of the pics onto my comp, and burn them to CDs from that. I did this, and then she had to get the other pics from my mom's comp. She didn't realize that you could use a USB key to do this. She then asked me how she could select all of the pics at once. I was so confused - she hadn't found out how to move her pictures around at all? She's had her camera for over a year now. How did she not find out how to move files into different folders? I had to explain all of the different file selection options to her, and then she had to sort the files on the CD by date, and that took her forever, due to a confusion about the touchpad on my laptop, and basic nervousness about the computer. Ugh. She thought the computer would explode if she didn't take the USB key out right! . . . well, I don't think she was totally serious about that part, but she did say it! So annoying.
Earlier today, I was talking to my sister about her best friend who likes me (call her Betty). Now, I've known Betty since 8th grade or so. Apparently, in 10th grade, when my sister dated my best friend for a brief period, Betty started to like me. I had no clue of this! I only was informed of Betty's interest in me this past semester. Strange. Maybe I'm just dense.
Well, that's the situation of things with me. I can't wait to get back to school.
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posted by The Wookie | 9:22 PM
1 Comments:
When do you go back to school?
It's my last year at uni I feel quite sad about that :( However I will be relieved when all the work is out of the way!!
I love limewire , have downloaded loads of songs -very handy tool. I don't know why people are so scared of computers? I think you either get it or you dont!
My dad is the worst, he is so old fashioned and claims that computers are "taking over the world" and "nothing is realy anymore" . I guess this is kinda true - but how lost would you be if you didn't have the net? I do not know what I would do!
As for the USB stick - I confess I get like that too - I save all my uni work on it, and when I go to eject it , it doesn't always eject and I get scared that if I just pull it out of the pc I will lose all my work!
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