Opposites

Jacob and I are opposites in a lot of way. He has light hair, I have dark. He has freckles, I do not. He is calm and collected, I am hyper and try to avoid collecting anything. He is always kind, I’ve thought about being kind once or twice. He reads books with graphs, I make fun of people who read books with graphs. And yet, we have a wonderful marriage—an amazing marriage in my opinion. But one thing has come to my attention, and this particular opposite tendency is causing me a huge amount of grief. And so, for the first time, I am airing our dirty laundry on the blog. What is it that is causing such stress in my life?

Jacob uses Firefox to view the Internet and I use Internet Explorer.

And for the most part, it is a happy thing. For instance, whenever we use each other’s computer, we do not have to log out of our Gmail accounts. He has his Internet page set up just as he would like. And I have mine set up just as I like. But the problem lies with my lovely lack of knowledge about computers in general.

The other day, after I posted a new entry on our blog, the page was having some troubles and I could not tell what the post would actually look like. So I brought up Jacob’s inferior Internet browser to view our blog. And now I just feel annoyed by Mr. Firefox and his dumb idea to give people options for viewing the Internet. Because, as many of you might know, I am a little particular in how I do things. Just a little. And although I would prefer not to admit this, I adjust and fix and refix each post that I publish, way too many times. Because I want to have it just right. And for some strange reason, my brain did not think about the fact that these posts would not look the same on all computer screens and all Internet browsers. And I would have lived in my naïve little world, had my husband not been a Firefox follower.

I have to keep reminding myself that I can love the user, but not condone the using. And boy do I love the man who uses that Firefox junk. But if anyone wants to see how wonderful and organized and completely lovely each post that I publish looks on our blog, please come on over. Because I am pretty sure they only look completely perfect on my computer screen and on my Internet Explorer. So if you use an inferior service or an inferior monitor, my heart goes out to you. You will just have to imagine in your mind, how great the posts actually look. And if you think our blog is fabulous as is, thanks so much. But you should see it in all its glory. Through my eyes. Or maybe not. That would just give you obsessive compulsive disorder and cause you to have far less than perfect sight.

And just for the record, I think with a little counseling, Jacob and I can make it through this rough patch in our marriage. Who do we use as a counselor? Bill Gates. No, that would be a PC vs. Mac problem. And we do not have those issues.

Yet.