This has got to be the most ironic karma of all time.
Here's my theory: I decided to make Things I Hate my Challenge theme, thereby committing myself to spending all of April filling the universe with my negativity, complete with a Hate-O-Meter featuring a flaming middle finger rating system. The universe retaliates by sending my computer to burn in technological hell. Coincidence???? I. Think. Not.
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| A current figurative picture of my computer. However, I'm so pissed off right now, I'm tempted to make this literal |
A massive pain in the ass, but not the end of the world...my prewritten blog posts are safe and sound in my Blogger draft file, so I can still access them, and I can borrow Spielberg's laptop (much to his chagrin, which made me change my request to borrow his laptop into a statement that I AM borrowing his laptop while he's at his dad's, and he best stop pissing and moaning about it, unless he'd like to spend the next 2 weeks laptop-less).
However, Spielberg's computer is slower than evolution, the touchpad mouse doesn't work, something is wonky with his settings and I'm being forced to remember all my passwords. And I have to remember to log out of everything. And clear the browser history. AND share with a 13 year old who will probably allow me about 10 minutes of computer time a day when he gets home from his dad's. I'm already predicting that until I can replace my laptop, my blogging/social networking time just got way shorter and far, far more annoying.
In short? My celebration of all things worthy of my hatred for the month of April? Has just come back and bit me in the ass. It's like and endless loop of hatred cause-and-effect.
Fuck you, karma.
Oh No! I'm so sorry to hear about your computer troubles. I'm giving it a 5 flaming middle fingers! Maybe that was Karma's noodle art man? Hope somehow you can get your computer back up and running soon.
ReplyDeleteWhat's weird is last night I was thinking "This laptop is such a piece of shit, I'm surprised it hasn't died yet". Pretty sure I spoke too soon lol
DeleteIt's an older laptop and it's been giving me headaches for the last year...I knew I was going to have to replace it, I was just hoping not quite yet
Ugh, so annoying!! And of all times! Maybe your computer will heal itself in the night? That's about the best I can ever do for electronics...hope they heal themselves.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I'm hoping...that during the night the laptop fairy will fix it and it will magically work my morning lol
DeleteARRRRRGH! I sympathize with your plight, because the same thing is happening here. I'm currently using a computer that was first used in pre-historic age...so around 1986 would be my guess.
ReplyDeleteHope everything rights itself soon. I was really looking forward to your next post. :)
Thankfully posts A through I are already scheduled on Blogger and I can use my son's laptop, so I can still participate. But I need a replacement ASAP because his laptop sucks and he's super territorial about it
DeleteI wish you the best of luck finding a replacement laptop. I love shopping for electronics and appliances -- online, of course, because I hate people in person -- but I'm always overwhelmed when it comes to computers/laptops and cell phones. Not sure why...
ReplyDeleteI hate electronics shopping (oh the irony, one more thing I hate lol), mostly because I am so technologically inept that I have no idea what I want, need or understand anything the sales guy is trying to tell me about. I don't give a shit about gigabytes or memory or powerpoint capabilities, just sell me a laptop that a 5 year old could operate and that lets me on the internet to complain via my blog ,pin bacon pics on my pinterest" All Bacon, All The Time" board and find out if there's such a thing as dinosaur porn
ReplyDeleteThat's sounds completely reasonable. And yes, there is such a thing. I googled it for you because, that's what you do for friends that you've never met in person. You search for porn. I pasted the beginning of the age warning you have to validate prior to viewing said porn. Really? Sexually explicit fossils. How have I lived my whole life without running across a few sexually explicit fossils. Oh, and , you're welcome.
DeleteWARNING: This anthology contains sexually explicit material and/or fossils. In order to excavate this anthology you must certify to the following:
Awww, that was so sweet of you to google dinosaur porn for me!!! The problem is, I get this kind of thing stuck in my head and I have to know if it's really a "thing" and I can't think about anything else until I find out...so thank you!
DeleteOh no :( However, not Karma for negativity, because your A post was hilarious, one of my favorites. Hope you can get more than 10 minutes a day :)
ReplyDeleteRhonda @Laugh-Quotes.com
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Me too, but my son comes home from his dad's tonight and the first thing he'll do is claim his laptop. I'm thinking of borrowing the laptop from work, but it's old and horribly slooooooow. But still better than nothing
DeleteThat's bullshit for sure! My the computer gods have their respective asses spanked for such tom-foolery!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to take it in today and see if it's fixable, but I'm not holding my breath. Even it it's fixable, it's such a piece of shit, it needs replacing anyway
DeleteOh no! I feel for you. I hate electronics. Each new thing is more complicated than the one I got used to. It's swimming upstream for me. I don't care about fancy shit, just give me something that works without fuss.
ReplyDeletelol, good post.
ReplyDeleteHilarious.
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