Computer Indiscretions
In the blog entry I Wish, I mentioned that my daughter said there are unbelievable happenings on my computer. I have not kept track of all the computer idiosyncracies, but I can tell you about some that occurred in just the past few days.
Has your computer has ever performed any of these antics?
1. I am typing along, minding my own business, when all of a sudden my font color changed from black to a bright bold hot pink. Not only that, it would not let me change the color back to black or to any other color whatsoever. How obstinate. I know how to change font colors. It was not ignorance on my part. Word or Outlook, whichever it was, simply preferred shocking pink to any other color at that moment.
2. I was typing along, minding my own business, when all of a sudden, in the middle, from out of nowhere, my computer had a little conniption. It went from where I was in Outlook to a link in my browser. The link was to Lichstenstein. True, I had typed the word Lichenstein in another draft earlier, but why did my computer want me to find out all about Lichenstein now? What was I was supposed to know?
3. I’m merrily typing along just like any other time. I press a letter – it could be any letter – a, b, c, d, e, etc. – and my computer jumps to another place on the page, usually below where I was, and that that’s where my computer wants me to type from then on. Now, why would it do that? Does that make any sense to you? It’s a good thing I pay attention or my emails would be scrambled. Fortunately, I am able to outsmart the computer on this one and go back to where I was.
4. My computer plays games with me. Let’s say I highlight one word that I want to delete. While I’m not looking, the computer swiftly decides to delete a whole sentence, or paragraph, or WHOLE DOCUMENT instead. Well, I’ve got to say that my computer has personality.
5. Okay, I’m typing along, and in the middle, for no good reason, my computer decides to change font style and size from Verona 11, for instance, to Arial 10 without so much as a by your leave.
6. (I suppose someone might hold me accountable for #6. I swear this is the only one that I can be held responsible for. In all the others, I am innocent.) Well, every once in a while I get typing like this:
ot kcab seog ti dna ti ecapskcab
Does that happen to you sometimes too?
There are also certain redeeming discoveries I have made about the workings of the computer, however:
1. For instance, if you type colon parenthesis 
it will change into a little smiley, but, if you want to keep colon parenthesis instead of a little smiley, all you have to do is to backspace and the color parenthesis will stay !!!!
2. If you, like me, find you are sometimes getting extra line spaces and you don’t want them, go to Format on top bar and then press Paragraphs. You will see towards the bottom, two places where it says Auto. Change Auto to 0 (zero) and you won’t get those extra line jumps.
3. Have you ever noticed that on the Enter key itself, there is a little blue symbol in a tiny box? (Does this show on everyone’s Enter key?) I have discovered on my own what this is for. If you’re really interested, I can tell you more, but I believe that my discoveries don’t hold as much interest as my computer’s misbehaving does — isn’t that true?
Godwriting is a blog by Gloria Wendroff and is about Gloria's daily life as the Godwriter of the Heavenletters project that is having a profound effect on the lives of people around the world.
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