I finally got the tech guys to understand my problem and to do what they could to straighten things out. However, I’m not sure if it really worked because I haven’t tested it.

My kids last day of school is tomorrow. Today is field day at their school. I can’t go to their field day because I have to work. I can’t even sneak out for a few hours because my editor is on vacation and it’s just me. If I skip work, there will be no newspaper on Saturday. So it’s nose to the grindstone.

But in my stead, I am sending not one, but two grandmothers! So the kids should be happy.

I woke up at 3:30 a.m. today thinking of all the things I need to get done, including writing a couple of articles. I wanted to get a head start so I actually got out of bed and came here, to my computer.

I have managed to do some editing of both articles and photos that I’ll need for the paper today. I e-mailed both my SFs. I blogged. I read blogs. But I still have to write the articles and my time is dwindling. It’s 5:30 a.m. now. AT least I won’t have to blog surf when I get to work. So see, it really did save time by getting up at 3:30 a.m.

I worked on the articles and things last night, but I had problems e-mailing things back to me at work. Which is one of the things I woke up this morning worrying about. I kept getting errors last night before I finally gave up and decided XP isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It kept warning me about a possible trojan because my subject lines were similar. Ergh.

So I feel better now that I successfully sent everything. At least I hope it was successful. I’d hate to arrive in Roscommon and realize nothing showed up.

Which brings me to another tech woe I’m having. I had a source for an article e-mail me at home a file that they made in Publisher. I have Publisher at home on the kids computer, so I figured I could open it there. But it had to be e-mailed to my computer, and then transferred to disc or CD and then opened on the girls computer. And apparently there are just too many steps in that process to be successful.

One or the other computer keeps wanting to reformat my disc or says the file is in error. Or who knows what. Very frustrating process for me.

And I also tried to open three discs that were given to me with pictures of a sheriff program. My computer at work doesn’t have a floppy disc drive. So I brought it home because we paid $20 extra to have one on this computer. And every disc I insert, my computer tells me it isn’t formatted. But it is. So I’ll have to see if that person can re e-mail me. He’d e-mailed the stuff to begin with, but he unfortunately used that dasterdly linda@lindasherwood.com e-mail address with its fatal errors.

Speaking of dasterdly, that’s my new favorite word. I quoted someone saying it last week and had to be sure to use it in the article. Makes me think of that cartoon about the Canadian Mountie that was always saving the girl tied to the railroad tracks by the guy with the handlebar mustache.

And that’s the end of my blogging today. Tune in next week when I have complete coherent thoughtful thoughts unlike this week’s hodgepodge of commentary. Hodgepodge. Another great word. Fun to use. Take note. See if you can user hodgepodge and dasterdly at least twice in your conversations today. Let me know how it goes….

Thanks for playing.