Let me tell you about my experiences with technology as of late.

I have an old, old Dell laptop that hasn’t worked right in a long time. Because I splurged a couple years ago on an iMac that has never once let me down (knock on wood), I basically kept the laptop around to play the Sims 2 on, but that hadn’t even been working. In a fit of boredom, I installed Ubuntu. It worked just fine for going online and writing and playing an hour of KBounce because sometimes there is just nothing better to do.

My work laptop is also an old Dell laptop, nearly identical to the one that I installed a new OS on. It ended up with a virus, and once that was taken care of, it refused to network properly and it was in need of a clean-up anyway, so I was just going to wipe it and re-install Windows. To back up the data on it, I was going to use my freshly Ubuntu-ed personal laptop. You probably see where this is going. I, on the other hand, was completely blindsided.

Mid-way through the backing up of the work laptop, my personal laptop shut itself down. Upon restarting, it decided it didn’t know where its hard drive was, and I have not cared enough to figure it out since. This was Tuesday.

In the midst of all this, my blog developed some wonky PHP error that I had nothing to do with, so I blamed it on the host, and after a few days, determined that they were probably ignoring me. They weren’t, and it is fixed, I think.

But the problem with deciding to ignore a broken computer, as I did on Tuesday in favor of sitting in my yard and doing nothing, is that it is still broken when you need to use it again. I fixed one and lost the majority of my data, and the other is under my bed, where bad computers are sent when they misbehave.