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challenges with computers, computer freezes, Cracked computer screen, jama ecuador, Staying Positive
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” ― Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being
Even the tin roof and nails came with the donated house!
Jama Ecuador – Lots of stories and images are in queue here on the Pacific coast. There’s a very special bird sighting – awaiting confirmation on its identity, and there are encouraging stories of those moving forward, poco a poco now ten months after the earthquake. The rains have been heavy, and many streets are more dirt than gravel, so mud boots are almost mandatory in some towns!
What follows is a ditty that will explain why future correspondence might be brief!
MY LITTLE BURRITO
The keyboard sticks, the screen is cracked
I hiss at it, but it won’t hiss back
The cursor freezes
and does as it pleases
This burro of mine
refuses to mind!
A sentence or two
and then it is through
It careens on a tangent
to an alien planet
Photo by Mari Groff
Orbs march down the cracks
in sadistic attacks
It fights as I type
then leaps out of sight
One cursor then two
Oh, what must I do?
No left click no right
Oh why must we fight?
(Maybe because it wants to retire!)
It seeks and finds
but balks most times
This ain’t no joke-
it’s had a stroke!
We’re hobbling along until time to put it to pasture!
We’ll proceed in bursts of activity, depending on those moments when it’s feeling well!
Z
A lesson for us all, one cursor at a time. I am glad you are able to submit your musings and pictures.
It took hours where it should have been a very easy one to publish! Am heading now to try for better images of that bird!
Best wishes for bird watching and photography.
Three blissful hours in the serenity of a ‘segua’ (marsh) I did not see the bird I’d hoped to photograph but did get photos of a purple gallinule.. You probably have that bird in Carolina.
Presently the writing field is working but the cursor won’t move out of the text box to select ‘send.’ ha, this could be a run-on sentence that stretches for miles!
so sorry seems you are destined to feisty computers! Love your posts…
Thanks, Gwen, for your comments… When I think of the challenges so many are facing, this problem reduces to a tiny one…
Sweet animals. I hope they don’t work to hard.
Ha! Maybe if I paired two, they could do the job of one?
Nothing is as lovely as your photos of horses and reindeer!
As usual, your post is very good. I wish you good health and safety.
Thank you – both are important here in the rainy season… hopefully no more mosquito-born viruses!!!
Thanks for sharing. I will be praying for you.
I do love the (mules?). And hope you don’t have to curse the cursors for too much longer! 🙂
Curse the cursors! Si…
I loved your illustration yesterday of pigs flying and wanted to expand, ha, i think pigs might fly before this burrito gives me a curse-free day!
Thanks Lisa, so glad it gave you a chuckle! 😂 Keep on cursing!
Old computer, beautiful burros!
The burros have a way of making us smile! Thanks, Emilie!
Wonderful post but not a happy condition. Prayers for a blissful “retirement” for the mule and the computer (once it’s found its replacement of course.
Thanks, and we’ll keep hobbling along and sending smoke signals when the system is have a good day/and staying silent when it’s not!
Sounds like a very sane plan to me.
Beautiful, thankyou. “Burro” in Italian it’s butter have you seen this clip? I hope you can get it where you are, otherwise save it for when you have good internet access. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-oH-TELcLE
it’s 11 pm here, so it has a good chane of working! am heading there now — thanks!
that was a fun one! thanks!
Glad you persisted, although I do have an idea how frustrating that is. Thanks for the cute donkey photos, though. 🙂
janet
Si, when it takes half an hour to do a simple task (instead of a few minutes..)t….Donkeys have a special allure! What’s frustrating is when I place the cursor in a spot to start typing, and it morphs to the second ‘cursor’ and it does something foreign and it won’t return to the work area… I shut it down, wait a few minutes then start t again. and it works – for about a minute, then the orbs set off the touch prompts…..
😜
It seems to be going around, this frustration with computers. I know at least a half-dozen people who are or recently have been out of commission because of glitches, malfunctions, or flat crashes. I hope you escape all that.
Out of curiosity, I took a look and found that Saint Isidore of Seville is considered the patron saint of computers and the internet. He had great faith that love, understanding, and knowledge could heal any brokenness — if that truly includes computers, we need to spread the word.
Your verse is such fun. Better to pen a little light verse than to curse the cursor — right?
Ha… I just returned from a great but long day, and your question at the end made me chuckle! Si, light verse any day over the cursed cursor!
It reaches a point where nothing works as if it’s deaf and dumb… like the Pink Floyd song, “Your lips move but I can’t hear what you say…”
St. Isidore.. hmmmm, I’d best get in good terms with him!
I think he’d be happy to be on good terms with you — anyone who can smile in the midst of brokenness would be his kind of person! Sweet dreams!
Thanks for the smiles! And the winning donkey photos 🙂 🙂
Ha, it would be fun for the donkey to shadow you on one of your walks!
What a poetic and insightful way to take us on your journey! Thank you! I hope the region is recovering after the catastrophe last year!
They’re doing well, though there are so many who don’t have their usual smiles.. many seem all but broken, emotionally, yet they’re moving forward.
Thank you for your empathy for the people of this area…
It is heartbreaking to see people struggling with such happenings. They don’t have much already and even that is taken. I admire them for standing up and moving on. They are the real role models of how to live life!
Thank you, Erika… computer willing, I’ll be sharing a few of those stories..
I appreciate this very much!
Yes it is so hard to communicate when our equipment won’t play ball.. And yet they are like old friends.. We do not wish to lay them to rest..
Good luck with your techno problems dear Lisa.. Sometimes we are as stubborn as those mules.. As we keep on keeping on until the screen goes blank.. 🙂
Loved your lovely little poem laced between those amazing photos..
Seems like the rain is doing its cleansing act as it pours both sleet and rain here today for the 3rd day in a row.. I wish you well upon the roads you travel and I so thank you for taking the trouble to leave me your comment.. Which I loved..
Enjoy that time of rest, which sometimes our gadgets prompt us to take.. 🙂
Love and Hugs
Sue ❤ xxx
Si, the computer challenges teach me about patience and tolerance! I am now typing without being able to see the entire scr Sleet and rain? ooh, that spells ‘ice storm’ at times, right? I hope that the front passes wihtout extreme weather conditions….
S
Hands down, the most entertaining computer hardware status update of the week! Hope all’s well.
Thanks, Bob. All’s as well as can be expected, but wow, the longer I linger in Jama, the more I realize is gone – wiped away, and only ghosts of those buildings remain… It’s muddy – beyond muddy…. so much that needs to be done…
so.. the little computer probs are truly tiny… I’m glad you liked the ditty!
I am constantly;y amazed that you can get the little burrito to move at all! Take care.😊
ha… it’s taught me even more patience! when i think of those who are sleeping in tents, the computer frustrations seem tiny..
I am not sure I would have patience for a burro of a cursor. Amazing how you get it all to work. 🙂
Ha! The demons awaken, we fight, sometimes they go back to sleep; sometimes I fold and put the computer to sleep.. and when it awakens, it’s ok … for a while.
what a new one would cost here would clothe six or eight people who lost their homes in the earthquake! for now, the new one can wait…..
That’s a great poem with images, Lisa! You’re making lemonade from lemons as always!
It’s extremely hot today, and strong thunder is reverberating thru the area… a very strong lemonade would be a perfect drink right now! Small lemons, btw, are 40 for one dollar right now! the locals told me that they were even cheaper earlier this year!
Brilliant! haha Hope your Burrito decides to speed up soon.
Right now there are zero orbs dancing across the cracked screen.. Sin orbs, sin crazy cursor…. shhhhh, don’t wake the demons!
Your perseverance in the face of technical road blocks is nothing short of amazing. I love your metaphor and your ass. 😉