You'd think I would learn?
I sometimes criticize Mexicans for being rather "adolescent" in their behavior and not thinking things through - right? Well, must be something in the water because I've been here nearly 3 years and I still don't "think things through" based on past experience - so, the "duh" is all over me on this one.
As I said, yesterday was a gem, last night and today it's a wet gem, we've had over 2" of rain since late yesterday afternoon, but it's straight down and the hamsters at the CFE are keeping us in power (if not much TV due to the rain). So I opened the cute little box, took out the new netbook toy, plugged it in to charge and later hit the "ON" button and SHAAAZAM - it's all in Spanish? - yes, the first "welcome" screen said "BIENVENIDOS" in big letters and I knew in an instant I had goofed? It was like my experience with Mexican ATM's the first time? - now why didn't I think of that before?
I know the operating system well enough, and enough Spanish, to go to the section that lets you change "preferences" and you can modify the region of the world you live in/near to something like 100 different places starting with Afghanistan and containing places I'd bet aren't even on a map - but absolutely NO US, America etc. Yes, there was Canada, so I checked it, went to three more areas and picked things that might make it comprehensible, but turns out all they are changing are keyboard configurations, the syntax of dates etc., the maacheeen only speaks Spanish.
So, between closing windows/doors and putting out soaker towels (really hardly needed) and opening windows/doors I thought it over (finally, now he thinks?) and realized I had an upgrade to Vista I never used on one of my other PC's, so grabbed it and sure enough it allowed me to load a new copy of Vista (which I hate) but at least it now speaks English. The wireless part isn't working yet, but what else have I to do on a rainy day but tinker.
Maybe I should write "I WILL remember everything in MX is printed in Spanish, and PS DUMMY, YOU LIVE IN MEXICO" 100 times? (I did get a great laugh out of it, even if it was at my own expense and due to my own stupidity)
As I said, yesterday was a gem, last night and today it's a wet gem, we've had over 2" of rain since late yesterday afternoon, but it's straight down and the hamsters at the CFE are keeping us in power (if not much TV due to the rain). So I opened the cute little box, took out the new netbook toy, plugged it in to charge and later hit the "ON" button and SHAAAZAM - it's all in Spanish? - yes, the first "welcome" screen said "BIENVENIDOS" in big letters and I knew in an instant I had goofed? It was like my experience with Mexican ATM's the first time? - now why didn't I think of that before?
I know the operating system well enough, and enough Spanish, to go to the section that lets you change "preferences" and you can modify the region of the world you live in/near to something like 100 different places starting with Afghanistan and containing places I'd bet aren't even on a map - but absolutely NO US, America etc. Yes, there was Canada, so I checked it, went to three more areas and picked things that might make it comprehensible, but turns out all they are changing are keyboard configurations, the syntax of dates etc., the maacheeen only speaks Spanish.
So, between closing windows/doors and putting out soaker towels (really hardly needed) and opening windows/doors I thought it over (finally, now he thinks?) and realized I had an upgrade to Vista I never used on one of my other PC's, so grabbed it and sure enough it allowed me to load a new copy of Vista (which I hate) but at least it now speaks English. The wireless part isn't working yet, but what else have I to do on a rainy day but tinker.
Maybe I should write "I WILL remember everything in MX is printed in Spanish, and PS DUMMY, YOU LIVE IN MEXICO" 100 times? (I did get a great laugh out of it, even if it was at my own expense and due to my own stupidity)
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