Stop the Bubble Machine!

Late yesterday afternoon with a flick of the eye all my cookies and favorite vanished from my computer.

What happened is that I wanted to scan something and noticed my printer/scanner was off. I turned it on and it still did not recognize I had a scanner. Most of the time when you first turn on the computer it checks around of all things on and hooked up and that is what it thinks it has. If you turn on something afterwards, like the scanner, it will not recognize it is there. I turned off and on the computer by the "restart" selection.

It went off and instantly came back on. Missing all that I said, plus my email.

It is a new computer. I called the help desk. A man with an Indian accent very patiently helped me. He walked me through many things and only got defensive and snappy once. Sometime during our telephone conversation it came out that he was in India.

He not only fixed the problem I called about but for a little added bonus he either brought out or loaded a screensaver on my computer. LIttle bubbles, like kids blow with little bubble blowers starting floating on the screen. Then I heard a "meow!"

I expected a cat to come on the screen and start swatting at the bubbles, all part of the show. But no cat appeard. The bubbles stopped eventually and we heard the "Meow!" again.

"What's that?" we asked.

You could tell the technician was embarrassed. He humbly said, "My cat".

That's it. It made him human, that's all.