The Chessboard | Diary of the Red Queen, Mama & Lunatic

2002-06-20 - 4:46 p.m.

It's pretty cold in here. Of course, people start going home in droves after 3:30 and so by now it's pretty quiet as well.

Here is an excerpt from one of my call logs today: "Also cannot check to see if his exchange server is correct as computer says there is not enough memory to open his mail icon in Control Panel. Tried to have client close all programs, but he stated that he did not know how and that he had never closed a program in Windows. Tried to have client use X to close program, but he said email was finally working now."

I left out the beginning of the conversation.

"OK, please go to Start, then Settings, then Control Panel."

"I don't have a control panel here."

"Do you have a Start button?"

"I don't know what you mean."

"At the bottom left of your screen, is there something that says Start?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"Are you running Microsoft Windows?"

"Yes."

"OK, do you have a Start button, a place you begin from, to open programs and ..."

"Oh, this thing. OK, I clicked Start. Now what?"

"Settings?"