me: computer expert

So, as the old rumbler was firing up tonight, it seemed to be taking longer than usual. And usual means about four or five minutes. Then I decided that hey, I'll just see if it will give me internets before it's completely come to. So I clicked "Start" and it just did this weird mild flashing thing, as if the start button were being pushed over and over again, and nothing else. I tried clicking on a couple other things and it vaguely acknowledged the requests but didn't actually comply with them.

At this point the neural nets were getting a little hoppity, blood pressure rising a bit. Nothing on the screen moved. Then the images came, the oh fuck I hope I at some point e-mailed myself everything that needs to be printed and in the mail literally yesterday I know I have at least a version of this and did e-mail that why didn't I renew my virus protection, no, fuck the virus protection why did that stupid company have to make me sign up for credit card protection program bullshit I mean I know they're a SECURITY company but does that really mean they have to be a EVERYTHING'S A PAIN IN THE ASS company? I don't think so, shit, I have to take this to the virus-cleaning place that'll be a hundred dollars even for something that basically gets me nowhere other than to back to where I was god damn it what else can go wrong here and the virus cleaning people will see all the stuff on my desktop, why WHY didn't I change "psycho programs" when I had the chance*

And then my hypothalamus was all like waitwaitwaitwait, that's what happens when something's on the keyboard. Move that skein of yarn off the escape key.

Love ya, hypothalamus. Stay sweet!


*the closest verbal representation of what was going through my head at that point, although I think I forgot some stuff