84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 18, 1999
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards)
Joyce Bupp
Well, we and our electronic other spot on the page when the
household gadgets made it letters p, t, s, or apostrophe were
through the 9-9-99 computeriza- struck—l was tempted to try a
tion concern. suggestion made by our comput-
But, we may never make it to e r-teacher daughter,
the Y2K crisis stage. Immerse the keyboard in a
Because if one or more of the bathtub of warm water,
electronic gadgets around here No, no, not to drown the irri
goes goofy on me, I’m going to tating thing—though the idea
use the tried and true method, wag sorely tempting. Trying to
which—sometimes in despera- print payment checks and write
tion—fixes the small magnet in columns had become a time
the floats in our milker units wasting exercise in frustration
when they stick. an d impossibility.
Whack ’em with a shovel han- No, the idea is to soak loose
die. an y dust and possible spills of
Actually, when my computer st Jff which may have gotten
keyboard began doing weird under a key and created some
things to the programs-like giv- sor t 0 f electronic short,
ing me a row of “3s” when a zero Supposedly, the warm bath
was struck, or jumping to some loosens any interfering goop and
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allows the keyboard to function
unimpeded once again.
But, of course, then it has to
really dry out. And in the rain
forest humidity environment in
which this part of the country
has existed in recent weeks, it’s
hard to get even a thin pair of
nylon hose dry without throwing
them in the dryer. And the dryer
didn’t seem a viable option for
the keyboard. Besides, if the
keyboard had a problem, as the
computer itself kept telling me
at boot-up, then a replacement
was in order.
After exhausting reasonably
easy fix-it attempts, I resigned
myself to going into battle with
the phone menus and voice mail
exchanges of l-SOO-DOG-GONE
computer support. Ultimately, I
was assigned an “event” number
by a helpful lady support techni
cian, who after coaching me
through several fix tries, sug
gested plugging in another key
board to make sure that was the
problem. And noted that, if it
was, a company replacement
was possibly in order.
I did. It was.
Next day, in a followup, I got
another technician, with no clue
as to what the first had done,
who wanted me to start switch
ing component plugs around.
Even though it seemed the key-
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board was the obvious problem.
On deadlines and in a writing
time crunch, I nixed playing
with component plugs and
placed a call to my favorite local
computer sales/service people,
who warmly and promptly sup
plied me with a keyboard. First
thing I wrote with it was a long
letter to the computer company’s
customer service department.
Meanwhile, if you recently
called the farm here, left a mes
sage, and have not received a
reply, please accept my sincere
apologies. Our message machine
has an “erase” button, which I
punched last week instead of the
“play” button. And sent a bunch
of messages into electronic eter
nity.
Oops! Sorry about that.
And, by accident, we have dis
covered yet another way to irri
tate innocent phone callers. Put
the fax machine in automatic
mode. It does cause the fax
machine to pick up those calls
immediately. And also diverts all
phone calls.
Oops! Sorry about that, too.
From the VCR, which oper
ates with lines running across
the screens after overheating, to
The Farmer’s cell phone (which
can reach him at an equipment
company across the river but not
around to the far side of the hill
beyond the meadow) to the face
less, voiceless, digital phone
menu with which we communi
cate by punching numbers, I
sometimes feel as if we are all
victims of what I would label the
looming social problem of the
fast-approaching Millennium.
Electronics abuse.
Maybe if we just switched
around all the component
plugs...
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