Things can only get better (I hope!)

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

Eileen
> Since then, the
> day's been downhill.)
> 
> *Your* day's been downhill?

I'm 25 hours into 36 hours without mains water (I had no idea I washed my 
hands so often)

I was supposed to be meeting a friend for coffee this morning and getting the 
stuff for no.2 child's party, but no.3 child feels nauseous and no.4 child 
has tummy ache so they're off school.

At 7.30 am I got a phone call from the riding stables to say that they've had 
a break in and my tack, along with most other people's, has been stolen.

I *still* can't get into the archives, despite Dicey's help. She kindly 
e-mailed me the one I wanted, but the file that arrived contains zilch!

And it's still only 9.30!

I shall spend the day comfort-cataloguing!

Seiously, though, technologically challenged as I am, doesn't the fact that 
both Cindy and I have failed to open the archives successfully suggest that 
there's a problem there? Or are we both mega-incompetent?

Yesterday, if I clicked on, m32000-32999.zip, I got a dialogue box, asking me 
if I wanted to read the file or save it, or words to that effect. I did it 
several times and the same thing always happened. It would open and allow me 
to read it.

The first time I tried it with the file I wanted, the same dialogue box came 
up, but it wouldn't open the file to let me read it. I tried to save it to my 
hard disc, but ended up with something with an icon for my c drive and no 
apparent means of accessing the zip file. Since then it has never offered me 
a dialogue box.

OK.. Something weird's just happened. I have just tried again to open 
m32000-32999 to check what the dialogue box said, and it wouldn't give it to 
me. Instead, it did what it did all the other times, said, 'downloading' 
briefly, the little blue progress meter came up, filled about 10% and then 
disappeared. I started typing this, and suddenly, low and behold the screen 
filled with something which had an icon for the file, I clicked on it and it 
was there. Unfortunately, as I closed the window so I could get back to this, 
I've no idea what it was in as I can't find it now!

I've just tried m35000-35999 again. Similar story. I got on of those things 
at the bottom of the screen that tells you you have a file open and which you 
click on to open and close them (sorry about the teminology!) and got what I 
assume is a temporary file, which said it was what I wanted, but in the blank 
area where the icons for the documents contained in the file should be, there 
was nothing.

Now, all of a sudden, it's flashed up again, this time with an icon for, 
'local disc (c:), and in the details, m35000-35999[1] Compressed, zipped 
folder.
Higher up, I've got under 'Folder tasks', ' extract all files'.
I followed the instructions there, asking it to be saved in My Documents. It 
claimed to have done it (or actually to have replaced the similarly named 
document which was already supposedly saved there), but it isn't there.

What am I doing wrong?

Eloise
Rushing back from attending to vomitting child (and that was the one with 
tummy ache! The one who was feeling nauseous is cooking scrambled egg, Lord 
help us) and shamelessly touting for sympathy. (Now off the ring the 
Insurance.)

Oh...and another thing. If Porphyria can't open Word documents, will she be 
able to read my Works ones?


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