What can I say? I love my computer. It lets me browse the web, chat with friends, play games, do my homework...ok, that last one is a lie, but it never hurts to try and pad your reputation. With all the things my computer can do, it seems that there's just one thing it can't do:
Work correctly.
Yeah, much like all good things in life, there's the little fine print that will just ruin your day. My computer just loves that fine print. You should ask it some day, it'll probably tell you all sorts of hilarious stories about me, usually involving wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The most recent event started while trying to retrieve a file for my father, who, in all his infinite wisdom, decided to try print an important paper at work, rather than at home on my wonderful printer. You see, his computer up and died (which is another story for another time), leaving me with the task of recovering said file from his hard drive and e-mailing it to him. Simple, huh?
Not this time. See, my computer loves to pull pranks. This time, it decided it no longer wanted to post. For those of you who don't know (like me, before this whole event started), "posting" is that beep your computer makes when it first boots up to tell you that everything is hunky-dory with the motherboard. After much tinkering, I found my computer to be beyond anything I could repair. Off to my grandfather it goes!
The next day, I call him up after work to see how my computer was doing. He tells me that nothing was wrong with it. Apparently, when he plugged it in at his house, everything was working fine. I was then told that my computer was waiting for me at my house. Oh glorious joy of unspeakable joys! My computer is a-ok!
...remember how I said my computer likes to play pranks?
[To be continued...]
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