Can You Hear This?

It has been a very frustrating day for me as I am one of those technology “challenged” individuals. I’ve accepted the fact that as technology advances, I will continue to be a “special needs” student.

When computers started popping up everywhere and “surfing the net” was a major pasttime, I was a single Mom with a very limited budget and I didn’t own my own PC. As, at the time, I was working in the health care industry and they were one of the last to get on board with technology, I didn’t have a computer at work either.

By the time my budget included a PC, everyone was arguing over dial-up versus cable modem (which had just become available in my area). I didn’t even have an email address, let alone an understanding of the internet.

Now I work in an industry that relies almost totally on the internet for all transactions. I have a computer that is so portable it goes everywhere I do. One email address isn’t enough, I have four. Today, however, I think I would have done just as well with smoke signals.

Apparently, unbeknownst to me until almost 5 pm, my web-hosting service was having some server problems. It’s a computer, it happens! Nonetheless, I became suspicious around lunch time when I began to receive multiple copies of the same email messages to my work address.

Then, the phone calls started. Why had I not gotten an answer to a client’s question? Why hadn’t I sent that client the information requested? Why hadn’t I responded to an associate’s lunch query? It was safe to assume at this point that there was a problem somewhere.

Given my handicap, I, of course, began looking for operator errors……………mine! Imagine my relief upon learning that I hadn’t broken or screwed up anything, it was some other computer’s fault.

It’s going on 8 pm and email is still not working so if you start seeing smoke, read carefully, it’s from me!!!!