Sunday, August 16, 2009

You said who with the what now?

LADY: There's something wrong with my computer; can you help me?

So I go over and look. The problem is that in the URL line, she's typed in google without the ".com". I point that out and tell her she needs to type in google.com.

LADY: [types her email address into the Google search line] Is this where I get my mail?

ME: No ma'am, that's for searching. See where it says "Sign In"? Click on that and then put in your username and password.

Short time later...

LADY: There's another problem; can you help?

I go over and look. The error message says that her username and password don't exist. I look more closely and notice that her username is something like "janedoe@yahoo.com".

ME: Your email says Yahoo, but this is Google. Do you have a Yahoo or a Google email account?

LADY: Yahoo.

ME: Okay, you have to go to yahoo.com. See where it says "Mail"? Let's click on that.

LADY: [clicks on search line] Is this where I put in my email address?

ME: No, where it says "username" and "password".


I give up...

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Eggscuse me?

I so TOTALLY want one of these:




Chicken girl, that's me.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

The Book of Love

One of the other blogs I read regularly posted this clip from the finale of the show Scrubs. I DARE you to watch it without tearing up. If you can, you're made of stronger stuff than I am, my friend.



Listen carefully to the song that plays during this segment--it's absolutely lovely, It's called "The Book of Love" and Peter Gabriel sings this version. If you're interested in tracking it down, I found it on the soundtrack CD for the movie Shall We Dance?