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Pesky Computers
By Crissy Moss   
Rated "G" by the Author.
Last edited: Thursday, July 27, 2006
Posted: Thursday, July 27, 2006

Pesky computers. Always deleting when you don't want them to.

You buy a computer and think it's wonderful. You can play games, get a little organized with that load of paperwork, play more games, and have everything nicely typed and professional looking, all while you play games.

Then you find out the reality.

Oh the stuff gets typed all right. It takes forever to do it, but it does get typed. You procrastinate as long as you can because you don't want to turn on the PC. You say "I don't want to write this by hand because I can do it all on the PC at once," but still, you have to turn it on. Eventually you do turn on the PC, you do start to type, then you....

EEEK! POWER OUTAGE!

Um, did I save that?

Damn it! No! Now to start all over from the beginning.

So you start over. There's the PC, there's what you have to type, and there is... oh look, Solitaire. You haven't played that in a while, maybe it will relax you after that damn power outage.

Two on an ace. Eight over here. Three on the other two. A book. Where's the red eight? I can't find the red eight, either of them.

Well, lets try again. Ace, king, jack.... Where's the black six?

Sigh, that was boring anyway.

Back to typing. You get it all done, and nicely formatted. You actually remember to save it this time. You even put it on a floppy disk, and set it on the scanner so you can find it.

The next day you come back, you forget about the floppy, you put a pile of papers on the floppy.

A week later you come back. You've organized the papers on the scanner several times. You've added more, and thrown some away. You've decided it's time to use that file on that floppy but... Where is it?

Search under the computer, around the computer, in the kids room, in your file cabinet, in the garbage. Where is that floppy?

Search under the couch and the chair. Search in that stack of papers you filed last week. Search under the scanner.

WHERE IS THAT FLOPPY?

You bang your head on the wall for a short bit, then you set about Retyping that damn file that you thought you had finished a week ago.

Okay, now what was it I said? What happened to all those brilliant ideas?

Forget it, I'll just toss the computer out the window and forget I even had one....



Save, save again, burn it, floppy it, and save it again. You can NEVER save it enough times.