By Joan Whetzel
My
mother and I were talking the other day
about things that have happened since we both became widows. It seems like we
are suddenly inundated with things that need repairing or need our attention -
and our finances. We have come to the conclusion that the fates have decided
that we must be rich widows.
This
week I am having to fix a failed water heater and a hole in some ceiling sheet
rock (accidentally stepped through by my daughter when trying to figure out
what was wrong with the water heater in the attic). I am also needing to do
repairs to the siding and soffits on the back of my house. Also it looks like
my downstairs air conditioning is having problems - AGAIN!. I just fixed the
(bleep) thing last summer.
Add
to that, my desktop computer. Internet Explorer started sending me to random
websites instead of the ones I'd selected. Then my internet security program
went haywire, flagging everything in sight as being corrupted and infected with
a Trojan horse. Finally, Internet Explorer quit working altogether - on this
computer only. I ran a diagnostic but it couldn't find anything wrong
and suggested I contact my internet provider or my network administrator. Well,
I can still get internet through Mozilla Firefox on this computer, and Internet
Explorer is working fine on the other two computers in my house so I doubt the
internet provider is going to help much. And as far as my network provider is
concerned, well, he (my husband) died last year.
It
was suggested I might want to try reinstalling Microsoft Windows on my desk top,
even though everything else on my computer is working just fine. Windows was
installed at the factory and if my husband had any backup disks for
re-installing Windows, I have never found where he hid them. So I can either
dip into my vast "widow wealth" and buy a new desktop or I can make
do with Firefox.
For
now, this "rich widow" opts for the Firefox option.
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