Oh dang!

The funniest thing just happened to me. I gotta tell ya this story! Well funny might not be the right description of what I am feeling right now???



A while back I gave my wife's employee a computer. It was an old one that was my Mom's. I cleaned it and fixed it and set it up for them. They have had it about a month. They screwed it up a few days ago. Long story I won't go into, but they said Comcast did it - NOT - they screwed it up or their kids did. I don't really care anyway but it is hosed.


Anyway, they need to re-install Windows 98SE. I had a tech's copy of Windows 98SE that is just for this purpose and have had it for years.



I lost it?? I looked in every file cabinet, briefcase, suitcase, drawer, shelf and wastebasket in my office and storage rooms and every box in my closets and storage room/exercise room. GONE! I could not find it anywhere. So I looked again when I was totally sober in all of the places again. I have stuff in a lot of places too. I am talking hours of searching here! I looked in software boxes by the dozen thinking I might have miss filed it. I looked and searched high and low all over the place. And I have tons of places to put things. I mean a lot of places. It was just gone!



GONE!!! I could not find it. Pissed me off. I figured I had loaned it to someone and they did not return it. It was just gone. Three days of serious searching! IT WAS GONE! I MEAN SERIOUS SEARCHING AND DIGGING THROUGH EVERY POSSIBLE PLACE IT COULD BE!!!!

Deb just came in and was on the phone with the employee. She asked me if I have found it. I said nope it is gone. She walked behind my desk and picked up a CD that was lying on my credenza. She said is this it?

I said rather sheepishly - yep that is it!!!! DANG. I had placed it on my credenza right behind me some months ago when I was working on a friends laptop - fixing it - and I had to reinstall 98 for him. I forgot that I did not return it to the proper place.

Dang, I have a bunch of CDs on my credenza that I need to mail to some people, and various other things covering the top of it. I have not gotten around to sending that stack yet, nor filing the other stuff, and the Windows 98SE CD was right on top of it. The top of it!!! I feel so very small. I am an idiot. Three long days of searching every place I have stuff and she finds it in less than 10 seconds. I think I still hear her laughing at my butt from the other end of the house?? I could have sworn that I looked through all of the stuff on my credenza??? Twice even!!!! I know I did!

How embarrassing this is. She will never let me live this one down. I really think I am getting OLD!

Just call me the idiot from Texas now???

But I am yours truly - still,
Bubba Stan