Posted by: thirdculturemom | November 23, 2007

Hello world!

Hello world? Okay, I’ll leave that, though I think I might have met at least some incarnations of this world character before.

This is a blog, and I suppose ranting is encouraged, so here is my beginning rant: my brats and myself used to fight over this computer, officially known as “Mommy’s Computer” (as it was a Mother’s Day purchase once), but more commonly referred to as “the Good Computer”. It’s a laptop, but up to recently it was the most up-to-date machine in the house, and thus the one all the games ran on, but also the one that didn’t take forever to load pages and didn’t shut down randomly when you were about to finish a 5-page as yet unsaved document.

This sharing situation naturally gave rise to some conflicts, both between the brats themselves, and well, me? Since it was supposed to be My Computer? So I had high hopes when BratK finally got the New Computer for his birthday last week–the one we had been talking about for over a year. Officially, of course, it’s The Two Brats’ Computer, and they’re supposed to be sharing it. (Yes, BratK got a bunch of other stuff for his birthday.)

But instead of my situation being solved, it has actually gotten worse! BratK is now constantly on the New Computer, BratA is  on My Computer,  the Old Computer (downsized years ago from DH’s company) has been disconnected to make place for the New, and the Broken Computer shuts down immediately after starting. In other words, I don’t even have where to be exiled to anymore.

Does anything think I need to implement some changes here?


Responses

  1. Hey Hi!

    I handle this problem the Marilee way. I use the computer at very odd hours.

    It looks like you have no comments yet. You may want to turn comment moderation off (or set it so that new comments are only unmoderated if the user has already successfully commented). Or, maybe this place is really totally new.

  2. I’m completely confused. That must be quite a problem you have there!

  3. Yes, it’s completely new. The date says yesterday but that was the automatic post, I just edited it today to actually say something meaningful(?)

    I didn’t realize it was set to moderated comments–I’m trying to figure out where to change it.

    I’m also trying to figure out what happened to the avatar I uploaded.

  4. The avatar things take a while to appear and sometimes are a little flaky.

    The moderated comments are changed under Options->Discussion. There are some check boxes under the second heading on that page. Don’t forget to press the update options button.

    You can set the offset on the time somewhere too. I can’t remember where though.

  5. I think I did the time when I set up the whole thing. I found the options for the comments and it should be okay now.

  6. Welcome!

    I have cats, not kids, so that informs the following suggestions: change the passwords, change the locks, move and don’t tell anyone.

  7. Aha! I knew it was you!


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