Thankful Thursday

I've already confessed to my internet addiction.  So imagine my distress when I was unable to get to some of my favorite websites a few days ago.  I didn't quite get the shakes or experience other withdrawal symptoms, but if I had been denied access for more than an hour, it might have started to get ugly.

The problem began Tuesday morning when I first opened up my browser and was prompted to update something.  You can tell by my use of the highly technical term "something" that I am by no means fluent in computer.  Still, I thought I could surely handle this update.

Wrong.  Very, very wrong.  : /

After a short time, I realized I was in over my head, so I swallowed my (by that point) beaten to a pulp pride and asked the resident computer expert, ie. my husband, for tech support.  Fortunately he was able to pull himself away from the job that pays our bills and come to my aid.

He sat down at the computer and I figured that in the time it would take me to make a piece of toast and scarf it down, he would fix my problem. But it wasn't quite that easy. 

Following the advice of one of our security programs, he deleted some sort of plug-in that apparently was not really a risk, but was in fact fairly important.  He googled a little bit, came up with a solution and I was up and running again.  Everything worked just fine . . . until the next morning, when I encountered the same problem all over again.

This time around my husband was a little more prepared than the day before.  I suspect that this problem had been bouncing around in the back of his mind for the past twenty-four hours and he had a plan.     

When I look back on the situation all I can think is "how frustrating!"  I really don't know how people who don't have a lot of computer experience or access to someone like my husband manage to navigate these technical minefields.  It's not like I was trying to do something out of the ordinary -- I was just opening a website that I look at first thing every single day of the week.  Arrrgh!!!

So this Thankful Thursday I am thankful for my husband's computer expertise and his willingness to drop everything and act as my in-house tech support guy.  In the real world he gets paid a lot of money to do what he does so very well, but all it cost me was a six pack of Harp.  : )