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the state decided to add our area code to our phone numbers so you have to dial 10 numbers now to call your neighbor to come and save your precious and only rear end........but.......didn't know or just forgot when it was officially starting........this morning at 0001 hours Mam......and I tried getting on line about 1000 hrs Mam......and I just thought it was our normal hassle trying to connect with earthlink......but NOOOOOOOOO....it was the modem number and it wasn't a number anymore because it needed the three digit area code preceding the other previous, usable numbers......WELL, had to figure out how to change that number and the first thing I tried to do was open System Network Preferences and see what was in there......AIRPORT......I have a wireless thing called AirPort and there's AirPort Utilities to look at (eventually).....and there's AirPort FRICKING HELP to maybe give me a hand......but to access AirPort Unilities I needed to remember the FREAKING PASSWORD.....and I didn't even know I had a password for freaking AirPort.....so now I have to go to KeyChain Access where my passwords are SUPPOSEDLY STORED, and very secretive I might add, and there's a PADLOCK also, which you must open.....well both the PADLOCK and KEYCHAIN ACCESS needed a PASSWORD....so at first nothing worked, couple of hours go by very quickly and I'm back at the beginning of this stupid, idiotic, rather insane journey into the bowels of hell inside my hard drive named Nubi after by black cat who wasn't real fond of the new male cat named Smokey who is MIA and it's raining out there.......and here is what made me freak, the first two passwords were the same, PAINTERDUDE.......how original was that? My secret file of passwords told me it was supposed to be NUBICAT.....but it never worked, always told me INVALID PASSWORD.....and I tried painterdude lots and lots of time, usually after NUBICAT didn't work....maybe the padlocks needed to be open? who knows, except these people who could have done this job in 5 minutes or less....tip my hat to ya
Once the PadLock is opened, access to the secret Password is for real.....but......you needed another password to see the passwords......and it was PAINTERDUDE also, just like I told you up above about dead center page.......anyways......the next secret password is CONNECT......and all of a sudden I can see the SEVEN DIGIT USELESS OLD MODEM NUMBER.......so I add our area code in front of the bad, bad numbers......could have been 51 to 45, no, today I hate, hate those numbers, especially the fifty one, that's a real rotten number......anyways, then you click on APPLY and it, the computer, tells you that it is processing your information and also tells you that you an close this window or just plain wait until it's done doing whatever it's doing.......and then it tells me, I CAN'T FIND AIRPORT, I CAN'T FIND AIRPORT.....so I activate my wireless network, another secret code, and scroll down to my Network's Name and move left to connect and I JUST PLAIN DOINK and watch the numbers go by real fast, and there's a new set of numbers, 10 in all, and all of a sudden I am on line, get my e-mail, find the BHC e-mail, open it, go to the bottom and DOINK it....and here I am......whew, that was a trip, got on line about eleven PM and that was not a fun trip, hours and hours trying to find a way to get to that number without having to remember these freaking passwords
I have this feeling that I left something out of the story
Smokey is still out there, hopefully under cover and eating something
Haven't smoked any of my stash in about a month, it's been real
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