Remember that one time...

that I asked you about cameras?  And then you gave me a whole bunch of suggestions?  Remember that?  Yeah, all that did was make my head hurt and NOT want to shop for a camera.  Ugh, I don’t like technology.  Which brings me to a good story to share with you.

Remember Sledge?  He’s out of town this week doing some film editing and so I had to step in and do his job for him which I’ve decided he has plenty of job security, but I’m not letting him know that….because I texted him after the 8 hours it took me to do the 30 minute job that he left undone and said, “You should be fearing for your job. I could totally do this!  Easy peasy!” and then he texted me back, “………no”.  He’s got a point.  I had to burn some DVDs of one of the little promotional films we had put together for the school.  I’ve never burned anything that wasn’t food or wood, so I knew this was not going to be pretty.  I called Sledge and said something like, “Okay, I need to make copies of that video and you need to tell me how to do that and we’re probably not going to be friends after you’re done trying to help me.”  I think it took him 40 minutes to walk me through the process and at one point I had to tell him to hold on a second so I could put the phone down and laugh really hard at myself, because it didn’t matter how well he described the button I was supposed to click….I still didn’t understand what it was that he wanted me to CLICK!  There were a lot of silent pauses on his end and a lot of, “Okay, try this…..”  and one time he said, “How does Clay do this with you?” all I could say was, “He has the patience of Job.”   It was so painful, but I did it!  Sadly, after I was done burning all those dvd’s I wasn’t quite sure how to shut down the computer, I’m just sayin’.

I probably shouldn’t follow this up with the second phone call I had to make telling him that the password to get into the computer didn’t work.  When he said, “I texted it to you…that’s the password, you’re probably typing it in wrong”  I was so certain that he was an idiot and he sent me the wrong password and I was the genius!  So he said, “Okay, repeat it after me as you type it” …and I did and it worked.  Really, he can keep his stupid job, because I don’t need it!  I have a blog!

I just happened to take this photo of Sledge and that look on his face pretty much sums up the level of annoyance I can produce in him.