I've had my Mac for just over a year, and have loved with with only slight reservations (and those surfaced but rarely)... The past 28 hrs, however, have been like going back to the Windows quagmire...
First, my printer got terminally hung up on the instructions for the Folded Star Ornament (on the Everything Quilts, Inc website); it spat out the first page after an hour of "panting", another after two more hours, and never the third (which gave one the address to write to, if one had problems printing out... adore that kind of bizarre sense of humour... But I digress...) Even though I -- eventually -- tried to shut it all off (ain't *really* gonna make the dratted ornament, am I?), it wouldn't...
Neither would the 'puter; *this afternoon*, the light indicating it was on was *still* on... And I could do nothing -- the screen remained black and unresponsive to every trick in the book I could think of. I finally yanked the umbilical (power) cord, and restarted...
Took a while (well, trauma takes time to heal <g>), but we were up and running, eventually. I sent another bit to the printer (the free patterns from LOKK), and after about half an hour, the printer spat out ... the first page from the Everything Quilts again (thery're coming to take me away, ha, ha). Okey, dokey; I can see another heart attack looming... :)
So I write a panicky message to son-and heir and, like the good geek he is, he *phones* back, almost immediately. Rather than try to "talk me through" the procedure, he logs onto my machine and "un-queues" all the garbage that got stuck in the printer's craw. The printer *continues* to "pant" however, so he advises yanking the cord on *that* (a past memory hang-up; I'm familiar with those, from my own life). It helps; the light settles to *steady* green, and all the e-messages which are sent to it print out without a problem (I do *not* send any web-sites to it, just in case it's still in the feeble/recovery stage)
I also notice that, although I got a chat message from Bev telling me the name and the title (Annie Proulx; Shipping News) of the book I *tried* to recommend (sans all pertinent details -- thanks, Bev, for pitching in with the info) last night, I never saw my own message on the list... I continue to *receive* messages -- from chat, from Arachne, and in private. I'm -- obviously -- not unsubscribed, since I don't get rejections ("only a member can post; you're not a member)", and since *other people* seem to see the messages I post...
But my posting on books has never shown up on *my* screen (some 30 hrs later)... Nor has my joke (posted to chat tonight) about how difficult it is to learn English... Nor have the messages posted to *lace* tonight: one on sewing lace to fabric and the thread to use, and one in response to out newbie, Barbara in Kentucky...
I thought, maybe, the two disasters were connected, but Danek says not; he says that, barring a spam-filter malfunctioning (I don't have one, so that's out at *my* end; and it's not at *Arachne's* end, either, since *other people* are getting my messages), the whole thing is too freaky for his knowledge... It's not as if the *ISP* is in trouble and delaying the sending, either, since everyone else seems to be able to read the the stuff (poor you; without seeing how much I've flooded the list, I'm unlikely to stop <g>) Must be the weather.. :)
Spent an hour or so tonight "comparing hysterectomies"; my stepdaughter's laptop (on which she's totally dependent for *work*) has also failed her in the last 24 hrs, though in different ways (the Windows/Mac Babel)... You gotta hate them all :)
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