Well, I've been MIA for a while here, holed up with Inuyasha, Kagome, Naruto, Jiraiya, Tsunade and what's the name of her pig?, Fuu, Jin, rolling around on the bed working on this and that, interspersed with long hours at the computer trying to get Vista and Java to work together to run the program where I do online work, every day (I do not exaggerate) from 1 April through this last weekend. Most of the time -- or was that when I started working with Microsoft Tech Support? yes I think so. I'm certifying myself now after all the paces the guys put me through -- and I am thankful for those paces: I learned A LOT. I also have only the highest praise for the gentlemen who helped me through a huge problem, never losing patience and helping me to keep my own patience through a long process that resulted in a fix. A fix I promptly messed up trying to get rid of this phantom user "Ronnnie" who keeps sharing my name. I guess he's the guy at acer who programmed the computer in the factory.
I am well on my way to getting rid of him, although in the process of taking ownership of all his files I did some security resets, one of which i realized would cause a disaster if completed, and backed out of it. I am now going file by file to fix all the files that got closed as read-only, causing some glitches. At least I know what I did.
I learned so much from those two Chinese guys in tech support that I can't even say how much I appreciate it: they were so generous with their information and intelligent with figuring out what it was I was trying to say. Tech support here often can't see the forest for the trees and I get help telling me to do something that was a long ago been-there-done-that for me, or giving me help on something I mentioned was working fine. These guys were doing this in a second language and managed to get the relevant points our of my, uh, you know, long-winded explanations, in which I include every detail in case any one of them is important and then get sidetracked onto a humorous word association . . . .
I was skeptical when about 25 years ago a friend in Taiwan passed on some of the conventional wisdom there: that the 19th Century belonged to the British, the 20th belonged to the Americans, and the 21st would belong to China/Asia.
Take a look around folks. Any lingering doubts I may have had vanished when I saw China's president boots on the ground (running shoes, actually) in Szechuan days after the earthquake, meeting with people even in, gasp, the Arena! It was such a painful contrast to our president's delayed and distant response to Hurricane Katrina that once again, I wept.
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