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Darn rootin' tootin' happy!!!!


Well I've finally gone out and done it folks!! I went out and bought a new computer!! I know, I know...It's about bloomin' time .....right? I'm saying the same thing. My computer got so snailey, turtley slow that I just couldn't take it any more. Understand? If not lemme just break it down to you this way: It's ok to have fantasies every once in a while, but when you start continuously fantasizing about the the interesting holes you can make on your computer with a baseball bat, or about the various ways you could throw your computer off of a building in order to watch it smash into a million bits.......IT'S TIME TO GET A NEW ONE!!! Do ya feel me?!!!! If not lemme just give you a little backround:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not some type of computer hatin' Grinch. In the past my computer and I have gotten along just fine. As a matter of fact when I first got it , it was the sweetest thing on earth(especially when it came time to go out of town and I could make my flight reservations from the comfort of my own home----It's a beautiful thing when you can glide past the 60 year check in line at the airport and head straight to the gate! SAAAAWEEET!!! --know what I'm sayin') But here lately, in the last 6 months or so my computer has gotten slower and slower. Oh what the heck! The thing has ground to a complete halt!! It has spent more time freezing up and sezing up instead of working. I have done everything that I could and then some to get it to work---FAT CHANCE!!!! Last week I tried my best to upload some pix from my camera....HA!!!!!! I shut my computer down and restarted it FIVE TIMES! Five whole times!!!! Then when the proper screen for my picture program did come on and it did act like it wanted to download, the thing just sat there. It didn't matter what button I pushed, don't care what I did, it just sat there. I disconnected and reconnected the USB cord SEVERAL TIMES--- in the words of Ned Flanders : IT DON'T DO DIDDLEY!!!!
In times of late I've gotten in my fair amount of nearly indecent language, severely hurting my hand (It's probably fractured and I just don't know it!) by beating the stew out of the modem with my fist. I've threatened to make it homeless on numerous occasions. My mom even swore Chewbacca was in the room with me one night when I let out this unearthly groan and kicked the thing further back in the cabinet!

But.....
My favorite will always be this one....
I was up late working one night and I was about to call it quits. I selected the start up menu. The computer asked me what I wanted to do. I selected for the computer to shut down. So I waited while the computer made all of it normal sounds...and I waited...and I waited......aaaaaand I waited... Until I was finally fast asleep. My mother ( who is staying with me while she recoups from surgery) came in to find out what I was up to. She found me fast asleep, slumped over in the chair. "Don't you have to work tommorrow?"
I said "yeah"
"Maybe you should shut down you computer and try to catch some sleep" She says.
" Sleep? Looks like I've gotten enough of that while waiting for this computer to shut down.
I kid you not, 20 minutes passed in between the time I selected shutdown and the time she woke me up! I was much more than pissed!!! The thing was still sitting there clicking away attempting to shut down!!!!!! I just pushed the power button. The computer shut down. Then as I was walking away...It shut itself back on!!! I was just too through at that point!!! I walked over and snatched the plug out of the outlet. " Now, Smart Alleck, try shutting back on after that!!!!!" ( Now you livin' well know that if that computer had of shut back on after being unplugged, I'd of cut an extra doorway out of my apt.-----Right through the plaster and concrete!!!!)