how my desktop computer setup appeared to me back in the day
—
years ago, in another universe
when i worked in the world of advertising
I was in an office setting and used a desktop computer
of course it was often the bane of my existence
but somehow I worked with/around it
getting most of the things I needed to do on my computer done
after a lot of trial and error and who knows what
one day, our long suffering multi-tasking creative/i.t. guy
came into my office after returning from a conference
he sat down in front of my desk and shared something he’d learned there
they had talked about how every office has a ‘bob’
a person who could do things to their computer
that they could not explain or get out of
or their computer got so messed up
that the i.t. person had to fix it
but had never seen anything like it before
they had to try to undo what had been done
the bob could not explain
how it happened
how they got there
what they were trying to do
he said, ‘beth, you are our ‘bob’
he got up out of the chair and returned to his office.
—
‘in my case, there are only two kinds of hope – bob hope and no hope.’
-eddie the eagle
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I didn't have my glasses on.... 