Warning: I may be contagious

This week, electronics hate me. I am only using my laptop with great caution. I feel like I should be wearing a lead apron; not to protect me from the computer, but to protect the computer from me.

At work, over the course of this week, the website kept going down, the computer would stop being able to print, all emails sent to me bounced back to the sender, and the computer kept freezing. At home, my emails wouldn't be able to download and the Internet was up and down. LJ kept making me re-post comments.

There's a saying I've heard: "The thing all your dysfunctional relationships have in common is you" - that's me and computers this week.

Friday: The computer froze. Since I listen to the radio on the Internet, the radio became stuck on one drum beat.

dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah- etc.

I always hope the computer will magically un-freeze, so I decide to do something else while I give it a moment. I turn on the adding machine and start adding up a long list of prices.

dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah- etc.

I get through three-quarters of the list before the adding machine stops responding. It just stops. Hitting the + doesn't do anything. Hitting the = doesn't do anything.

dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah-dah- etc.

There's only one thing on the adding machine's screen: P

The adding machine is sticking its tongue out at me.