I was just setting up the folder to put my blogs in, and ran into "The Shortcut Wizard".  The first direction was "Type the location of the item."  I typed "this computer."

FILE CANNOT BE FOUND.

If it's in this computer, but you can't find it?  And you're supposed to be a wizard?  I went to Explore, clicked on the Blogs folder, and clicked on "Create Shortcut".  One promptly appeared.  So what's the wizard's problem?  Doesn't it have the magic to figure out that the folder I want the shortcut to is the one I happen to be in at this very moment? 

Like a couple of days ago when my e-mail was down.  Instead of saying "Your e-mail is temporarily unavailable.  Please try again later." , instead it gives this list of excuses:

"Error 123.45.  Cache memory error 12.345."  And so on.  There were five different excuses for why the e-mail was down.  My husband George, the local Computer Geek, told me these were messages for the troubleshooters, not a list of excuses, and not to take it personally.  He's also the one who said, "Your computer doesn't do anything it hasn't been told to do."

My response was, "I didn't tell it to lock up and then flash dire warnings at me!"

He explained patiently, "I didn't say you necessarily told it to do that, I'm saying that someone somewhere told it to do that." 

I think what aggravates me the most is that he's so patient about explaining things to me.  I've never seen him lose his patience with a computer and yell at it, like I do.  I still think the thing has a mind of its own.  It's not that it gets lonely; I sit in front of the thing for at least 8 hours a day.  Maybe it thinks it needs a vacation.  I do medical transcription, so maybe it's tired of reading about people's innards (Heaven knows I feel that way sometimes.)  Maybe it wants something more exciting to read, like a steamy novel.  And when I just typed the word "novel", it asked me if the word should be "November".  No. 

At least we've gotten past DOS.  I remember DOS so well:

A:>

I typed in GOOD MORNING.

BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME

That's what I get for trying to be nice to a computer.