I Do Not Understand Everything I Know

For several years, I have served as a communication person for the South Plains Branch of NASW http://naswtx.site-ym.com/?page=Branch_SouthPlains.  The information on this link is out of date, but it is the best link I have.

I send out emails to NASW members, licensed social workers in the area, students at the local social work programs at Lubbock Christian University http://www.lcu.edu/, at Texas Tech University http://www.ttu.edu/, and other groups and individuals.

Most recently, one of my emails was forwarded on to an associate editor of the Lubbock Avalanche Journal.  She had some questions about social service activity, and I was able to forward her to the person she needed to contact. Today, I was contacted by another reporter at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal about a community activity.  I was not sure how he got my name, but he told me his editor gave it to me. I was not able to give him much information, other than a website, so he could find out more about the community activity. But, I sent an email to the group about his desire to have more information. I  hope the specific entities involved can  make contact and the AJ can produce a good story about the Cinco De Mayo http://www.elpngrant.org/CincoDeMayo.php activity that was in question.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

Sometimes, I feel like my time on the computer is wasted days and wasted nights. And tonight was a good example.   I was doing things on the computer, using the Internet, and after a while, got frustrated because my email would not download.  Well, after my computer had been working very nicely, thank you, on the Internet, all of a sudden, that stopped. 

So, I reset the modem, the router, and the computer three times. Because it seemed to be working and then stopped, and Microsoft offered to detect the problem and fix it, it took me almost 2 hours to do this.  So, then I called the Internet provider service.  We spent another 40 or so minutes trying fix the computer and could not.  We set up an appointment so a technician could come to me home, Wednesday to check the system. (So what am I supposed to do between now and Wednesday?)

Well, I went back onto the system, to the Internet options, and did what it said not to do, unless I could not use the Internet.  I reset the Internet connections to the default settings.  I have had to do this a couple of times recently, but under different circumstances:  my email would work, but the Internet explorer options would not. Well, shazam! Tonight this fixed both the Internet connection and the email connection.

I am not sure why this happens. I did not hit any buttons or go to any sites that I do not normally use.  This is so frustrating to me.  And the time waiting for everything to reset is interminable.  Except, I got the library book I was reading and made good progress in it. 

But this time working on computer connectivity really is wasted days and wasted nights.