Saturday, February 11, 2012

I just can't do it.

I told my daughter today that I can't part with the iMac just yet. Maybe eventually, after I figure out why so many basic things I can do with ease here are a huge throbbing pain in the ass on that laptop. Maybe it's me. My work stuff works fine, and that's all that really matters, that's why I BOUGHT the damn thing, but I won't be parting with this lovely machine until I have figured out how to do everything I need to do on the laptop. And I realized at around 10 last night that I was wasting HOURS on trying to get my minor stuff to work, and I needed to spend those hours on core business useful stuff. I put pressure on myself to transition off this machine with NO clue about what that would entail. This machine has five years of my life on it, and I can't unwind that and transition it to Windows without a lot of sweat and tears. I will get my vCard issue figured out. No thanks to Bing! I had forgotten Bing existed until it appeared when I clicked on Outlook help. I did realize that it's the freaking opposite of its commercials. (I haven't seen one of those smug, annoying commercials in a long time.) Picture me, frustrated with a vCard issue, thinking I'm opening Outlook help (because, ahem, that's what I fucking CLICKED ON) only to find myself in Bing, with Bing randomly throwing third-party download suggestions and not sharing an actual Outlook Help answer. REALLY, Microsoft? Because I haven't done Windows for a while, but I seem to recall being able to send more than one vCard at a time without needing a third party gadget to do it. Many conjugations of "fuck" were uttered last night, let me tell you. Girlchild wasn't disappointed and said they have many more ways to spend that money right now. I still felt guilty for even offering it, and Son-in-Law will get first dibs if and when I decide to part with it. But right now, I have higher priorities than spending hours of my life trying to figure out why stuff that works here doesn't work THERE. The work stuff works, and that's why I bought it. So the laptop will be work, this will be pleasure. I will focus on work, because I already know this dear machine just does what I ask of it.

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