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I *am* the Don Music of the modern day keyboard

My computer karma continues to deteriorate, going from worse to unbearably awful. I can’t fathom what I did in another life that has caused me to suffer so in this one, but I must have been pretty bad with the abacus or something.

I got my laptop back on Thursday night, complete with a new hard drive but with all extraneous software removed–including photoshop–rendering it useless for anything more than writing and Fakebooking, the evil online activity that takes the art of procrastination to a whole new level.

Given the new limits of my laptop, I downloaded all the photos I’d taken on Friday night to an external hard drive connected to our desktop computer, the final frontier in my photo processing. And before I could begin editing them and give thanks to the computer gods for having all of my machines in working order, the desktop quit on me. I’ve tried re-booting, I’ve tried zapping the P-Ram (going the two-bong and also the three-bong routes) but: Nada. I’m not allowed past the very first grey page, with the grey apple and the little grey start-up wheel spinning like a fan in taunting eternity.

I very nearly popped a blood vessel while screaming at Sam and now I’m afraid there’s a greater possibility I’ll be served with divorce papers on our anniversary this Tuesday, instead of getting the tattoo I want. After I blew, he high-tailed it out the door to pick up some Thai food, knowing that part of my angst was rooted in low blood sugar and that at least this much he could control. While he was gone, I enjoyed the remainder of my meltdown in private.


4 Comments

Fairy Godmotherly advice – close it all down, take a deep breathe, enjoy your peace and quiet (assuming Stacey has gone, otherwise enjoy her), and prepare for your trip to the Gaydi Project. Happy Anniversary to you both. And to all a good night.

xoxo

Posted by bonzize on 22 December 2008 @ 8am

Computers hate you. They hate most of us. They sit there, staring at us. Sometimes I have to put a towel over the monitor, just to keep it from looking at me. They’re evil. Some people recommend that you leave chocolate by the keyboard. That seems to please some of them.

Posted by Last Place Finisher on 22 December 2008 @ 1pm

Pssh. Don Music is just Guy Smiley with a Beethoven wig. Poser.

Posted by Pam on 22 December 2008 @ 4pm

I’m so much more afraid of my laptop boyfriend going out on me than I am of my husband doing the same.

Posted by Cheri @ Blog This Mom! on 23 December 2008 @ 5am

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