March 31st, 2010
Computers Hate Me
I swear to God, computers hate me. Now, I know that sounds paranoid and that they are only soulless machines, who cannot possibly hate one user more than another, and that the malevolent machine is a myth of the movies, but they definitely do not work as well for me as they do for other people.
When my son, who is 7, wants to play a game, it works. Horrible, mindless games with terrible music that is a cross between heavy metal and circus music, repeated over and over. Then when he leaves I cannot get the music to stop nor switch over to another program. I have to actually turn the computer off, which is another thing it does not want to do for me.
This morning it did something it often does (to me – if anybody else in my house has had this problem, they haven’t mentioned it) I turned off the computer as I was going out to do some errands (the optician’s shop on Vinohradska, near Vinohradska Trznice, fixed my glasses for free even though I’d broken them carelessly. Kudos) and then when I got back and wanted to turn on the computer, I opened it up, turned it on and got….Windows shutting down. Why couldn’t it have done that when I asked it to?
Lately, I’ve been randomly bounced off the internet. I’ll try to go to another page and all of a sudden, it’s “problem loading page” and I’m done. I have to wait and try again later.
Anyway, the latest frustration. My wife sent me a document to proofread – her English is good, but she’s not a native speaker, so it’s good to check these things over. There’s usually quite a bit of confusion between a and the, for instance. Anyway, I did it, all 9 pages, and I had to be on the internet because it was an e-mail attachment. Then I saved it as a wordfile (so I guess I was offline for a moment) but then when I tried to go back to hotmail so I could send her a reply and attach the corrected version…no internet.
It’s not exactly two hours wasted, because the job is done and saved, but I feel like it’s two hours wasted.
I think I’ll take a break now and smoke a big, fat joint.
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