I've been spending the morning yelling at the animals, making pancakes, doing eight hundred loads of laundry (how do we make so much laundry? I'm gone all day and someone else doesn't ever put on pants unless he's attending a State Dinner or something.), doing dishes, and installing stuff on the laptop.

I haven't "installed" anything for a long time since the old computer could barely handle turning on, so it took me a good twenty minutes to figure out how to download Windows Messenger. Stop laughing.

I was immediately perplexed by the mystery that is the Contact List. There was a buddy icon that said "me" and it appeared to be Away. I don't know how this happened, since I was pretty sure my status at the top said "online." I decided to troubleshoot. I clicked randomly around, trying to figure out why I was appearing in multiple places and why "Me" showed an entirely different email address before finally realizing that "Me" was a display name and not, in fact, myself.

Thank you, Chud. I spent the morning thinking I was a freakishly tall guy with a penchant for sharpie-ing people in their sleep. Glad I got that straightened out.

Is there a remedial course for people who haven't done anything technological since 2003? Surely MSN Messenger can't be all that difficult.

Labels: idiocy, technology