After my blog yesterday I had a great phone call from 'Belmont Betty' with a suggestion.
As I am completely computer il-literate I never (almost) do anything without running it by bossman. He is one of the IT guys where he works and knows 'all' about computers.
I know how to do what I have to do, when I try to do something I know that I know how, and it doesn't work - time to panic.
Told him last night about problem. First thing said "what did you do this time?" I didn't do anything.
Asked him this morning about restoring the computer, how much would I lose, etc. etc.
His reply was "What is the problem?" Time to throw hands in the air. Told him I ran the problem by him last night. His reply "Tell me again, I have forgotten."
He said to show him. I sat down, pulled up an e-mail and opened it, then told the computer to forward said e-mail. Clicked on the "TO' button and my contact list appeared. Checked several boxes, while he was watching, told him how when I clicked on 'select' all the boxes came unchecked and no names appeared in the 'TO' box.
I clicked on select. The boxes, of course, became un-checked. BUT..... a really BIG BUT..... the names were in the TO box, ready to send. I could hear the computer laughing hysterically.
Jerry's comment "Had to be something local".
Now, that can be taken several different ways. I was sitting at the computer. I was local. Did he mean me? Or could it be something to do with our local Internet connection, where they were doing something funky.
I HATE COMPUTERS. But I have no choice. I need my computer. It knows I need it. It loves to make my life miserable by doing strange things, getting me blamed for the strange things, and laughing hysterically.
You notice hysterical comes up quite a bit. I wonder why?
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