Bee to the Honey

There is a button in my blogs back office that has been enticing me for over a week now. It says —–Upgrade to Atahualpa version 3.3.2 available. Install now—-That would be the template I use to contain all that you see on this page. The Mack Daddy framing, the Democracy that says, widget, you go here, font, you’re this size, pages, hold these words……Atahualpa is the church and pews and fine stained glass windows. I’ve resisted the pressure, so far, but I’m losing will power.

I wasn’t born yesterday, in fact, in light of recent discoveries, it’s apparent I was born 36 yrs, 11 months ago. Hence, I am wise, I am knowledgeable, I get to assume mature and sensible adult caution and know that clicking SOME buttons is tempting fate and all that is natural with the universe.

But I like to click buttons, a lot. I like to test things out and see what happens……usually I can’t resist. I am like like the moth to the flame, the cat to the curiosity and the fish that took the bait. Usually I~ can~ not~ help~ myself! Evidence of this button clicking, adjustment testing, irresistible urge to tamper with things, can be seen on my Twitter account. I’ve hacked and clicked, adjusted and moved so many settings that everything is whacked out and ill-functioning. Now I get to spend 1/2 of my time twittering, another 1/4 of my time in API violation solitude and the other 1/4 of the time staring at a near blank screen with a snide little sentence at the bottom of my screen mocking me with these words. “Status; There is a problem-don’t panic” ~~~ Works like a charm. I go into technology panic.  

One example, of my many forms of technology panic:

• Computer screen freezes. The user (me) immediately goes for the top left red box with the X in the middle and rapid fire clicks it. I think that if I can just get the one offending and stubborn page off the computer screen life will go cozy and balanced again. click click click click, nothing. Jitters set in and I dive for the bottom bar and right click to close program. Sometimes this appears to work but things hover in no mans land, sometimes the little option won’t even present itself. Technology concrete. This usually will create irrational clicking of the spastic nature. I’ll start clicking anything and everything, thus overloading an already backed up system. At this point in time, turning off the computer won’t even work everything is so constipated.  This system of panic is sort of like taking a laxative and when it hasn’t worked in 1 minute, downing 10 more for good measure. click click click click=eventual nasty overall implosion. The only recourse left is removing the battery pack from laptop and start praying for a miraculous resurrection. Hell must be the destination of anything not saved….

But I still like to click things. There could be a huge RED button that says DO NOT CLICK HERE and it would take the strength of Zeus to pull me away. I’m addicted to tampering with things I have no earthly business engaging in.

Which brings me to the Atahualpa temptation whispering in my ear… Install, upgrade, install, comeon, don’t be afraid, install, push the freaking button, you knowyawanna, Install me…what are waiting for? Version 6.6.6?

So, I am afraid. For once, I am afraid to do an upgrade, click a button, tempt the Gods of Technology. What if I upgrade and I get this :::::FATAL ERROR::::: or all my settings disappear? The truth is, if I didn’t have bad technology luck, I wouldn’t have any at all. So here’s the deal, I don’t know how much longer I can resist pushing the Install now button. So, now you know the details. If you come to visit in the next week and discover a single splash page with this dire message, you’ll know the whole story………

~R.I.P~

Here lies Provocation of Mine (d)

“Like a bee to the honey~Rebecca pushed one too many damn buttons”