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Sep. 26, 2009
Wrestling With A PC
I don't mean to be "computer-political", but, I must say; I am glad we have Macs in this house.
This is because, last night, while Mommy and Daddy were on a date and Levi and I were at Grandma's; Tami, Levi and I managed to start talking about Dogz II and Catz and Dogz V [Dogz and Catz was part-of an old computer game company known as Petz from the '90s and even early 2000s (okay, actually, I think they company was known as Ubisoft and Petz was just a part-of it).
Anyways, a little after Dogz and Catz 5, I believe; they began to make their games 3D, and with a quite different background of the game (we didn't like this idea).
ANYWAYS, I'm starting to rant off-the-subject.
Eventually, we wanted to play Dogz II so much that we made-up our minds to just do-it.
So we got-out an old Tower-PC (I reason you remember those).
Then, mainly by guessing, we managed to un-hook two macs and hook-up the PC (I wish Mommy were there, she is normally good at that stuff. Though, then again; if she were there, we wouldn't be hooking it up, anyway.).
We did this by A. Guessing (like I already mentioned)("This looks promising—let's plug this in here"), B. Color-coding (also part-of a bit of guessing)("This is the same color—maybe it goes-in here."), C. Fitting stuff in like a puzzle ["I think this thingy (we literally did talk like that—we didn't know the names for most of the equipment) will just fit in here"], and D. Turning the computer on-and-off when making a big enough change (we actually had to do that, it was crazy).
Eventually, after all of this, we turned-it-on (Moment of truth!).
It worked—first time!
But we weren't done yet—we still had to get Dogz II on it, next (we had to instal it twice in order to work, not to mention that, each time; we had to click-through all of the alerts and disclaimers ect.).
We weren't even sure that it would work because it was meant for a Windows '95 Machine and we only had an XP 2000, I believe.
Finding that we couldn't get it to work correctly by directly clicking-on it, I proposed that we should go to "Start" and then on to "All Programs" and click-it there.
It worked!
So we spent the rest of most of our time left at Grandma's taking-turns playing the game (we named most of the Dogs after our previous ones).
Bother, I can't think of an ending-statement. :(
-Isaac Aaron Buckley
P.S: Thank-you, Tami and Levi, for helping-me arise victorious over the temperamental computer. ;)
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Sep. 26, 2009 - Bother
HA! Very "Winnie-the-Pooh"-ish... I like it... :)
Glad you were victorious after your long battle.
love you,
Mommy