In Which Ma Survives YET ANOTHER Technological Attack

*sigh*

It has been an utterly (inciteful to the point of violence) thrilling morning fer Ma, on the Inter-Webby-Socials.

I can (snarl) laugh about it now, since it is (not quite) all over.

Originally I had been prepared to stay inciteful-to-the-point-of-violence all day long but after spending some time in the bathroom reading Dave Barry and trying not to guffaw out loud--which naturally begs the question, "Can one silently guffaw?"--I decided to take my lemons and make blogade.

For you see, starting last evening, I made the disquieting discovery on Google+ that every attempt at using the apostrophe would take me out of the status or comment box and into a "quickfind, links only" search at the bottom of the page.

Normally, I would be ecstatic at such sidetracking, because I am a stay at home mom and everyone knows we have nothing to do (actually, that's pretty much what I've done over Christmas vacation: nothing). But last night, and again this morning, I was extremely irked.

My first inclination was to go online and (whine) ask for help. Unfortunately for me, everyone else in the world was not following my vacation example; everyone else was working.

Time for Ma to google her problem!

And soon I found evidence that others had been assaulted with the apostrophe-reroute-of-death.

"There is hope!" I thought. It should be simple matter to follow their simple instructions, which upon further study, were not....that...simple.

I clicked on a website that looked quite promising. I felt an immediate kinship based on the profile picture of a couple, who looked...and I know you may not believe this....looked slightly older than me. 

"Okay!" I thought. "These are people I can relate to!"

I followed their instructions to pull up the Firefox "about:config" page, which immediately made me feel at ease with the message, "Danger, DANGER! You are a stupid person and may void your warranty!!!"

Actually, it contained only that last phrase, but still...

By clicking on the "I promise to be careful", which was actually there, by the way, I came upon a long list of stuffs. It was very important looking stuffs; a long list of options stuffs.

Near the end of each line was a "true" or "false" leading me to believe I had secretly been forwarded to one of my dreams which involved being back in college and taking a quiz for which I hadn't studied.

Carefully I perused the list of (what looked to be) hundreds of items. The exact phrase was not found. Therefore I could not click it off of "true" onto "false."

Time for phase two, the option that was supposed to be even easier and quicker than whatever it was I had just failed.

Except, resizing the browser window didn't appear to be that easy, either. It appeared to involve copying and pasting html into....something. Something which I could not get to. I even took a few suggestions from one of the college kids. That did not work. On top of everything, I could no longer "copy and paste."

I can take a lot of things, but removing "copy and paste" from my short list of word processing abilities leaves me with a smoking brain.

And so, frustrated beyond the pale, I resorted to that which every computer user has over time immemorial: I rebooted.

Amazingly, all seems to be in working order. Except for not being able to use the strike option in blogger (oh look, it's working...aaaarrrrgggghhhh

Or not.

But let's not get frustrated again. Let's remember the important lesson, here.

The important lesson being:

I need to take a nap.

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