Friday, May 9, 2008

I AM NOT TECHNOLOGICALLY SAVVY...AT ALL

Ugh - Kelli, I feel your pain!! It is now 12:23AM...and I have been in a chat with people from McAffee (my virus protection) for the last 2 hrs. For some reason, over the past few weeks, my virus protection has not been updating, which causes me a small degree of paranoia. The IT guys in my department regularly hack into each other's email and think its funny - so if they do it, I can only imagine what freaks are out there following this message right now...

Anyway, the chat with McAffee was actually helpful, but it has taken three hrs to get where I am. I had to send in a request - I could not call because my computer was over a year old and there is a fee for service when your computer is over a year old...I hope you are thinking "rip off" along with me. Anyway, I had to uninstall and then reinstall - there was something wrong with the McAffee site and I was not able to reinstall, but at least I know what the problem is. For that, I will be a ZOMBIE at work tomorrow.

I also finally got a new camera tonight, you need a PHD to operate that as well. I did manage to get the memory card and battery in and have started to navigate through the book. Going into Circuit City tonight was interesting too - I swear it took the people 30 minutes to check me out. During this time, phones were ringing, customers complaining, things were beeping...I was trying to be patient, but by that point it was 8:30 and I had not been home yet (met my parents at Olive Garden for dinner, they had let Chelsie out and fed her before the met me) On the bright side, I have a really slick little camera, an 8 megapixel Canon. The guy could have sold me on $100 more, but asked what I was going to use it for and said I did not need the 10 megapixel one. It is dark purple and really cute...

I am off to bed...I am sure I will be high functioning when I make it to work...later today....

2 comments:

The Monroes said...

Oh Nicole, point and click...then worry later! That is always my philosophy... I am not great at instructions, I rather learn by trial and error. I think it is almost time for me to get a new camera... maybe this will motivate me to start looking!

cpy said...

I'm looking into a new camera myself. I have a big fancy one, but I'd like a small one for travel....ya know, for all the traveling I don't do.