Why no blog until so late in the day? Well, my friends, I guess boredom got the better of me (hack choke cough) so to inject a little fun and excitement, I decided to destroy my computer!

I was working on a marketing piece that wasn't going anywhere. I had lots of clever phrases and points but joining them together into coherence wasn't happening. When M$ Outlook beeped that I had new mail, I welcomed the interruption. It was from a co-worker with a sales report (M$ Excel) attachment. When I opened the attachment, it worked; I could see the figures and data. However, something never completed because I didn't get back my mouse pointer. The wee hourglass spun and spun. Everything was locked up. I couldn't close any windows or return to my WordPerfect document. Twice I rebooted and twice was denied, getting the Windows XP logo (splash screen) forever. Okay, not forever, but over twenty minutes and nothing further seemed likely to happen. I tried a few other things and can't even boot to safe mode.

I can't even muster the energy for a primal scream or tears. Why, WHY WHY can't my life run smoothly for more than three days in succession???? WHY???