A representation of the creative hole I am in thanks to my computer

Having an untrustworthy computer when you’ve only recently begun to write again is sheer, Herculean stress. I spent so long not working on a blog, only to go out and spend my hard earned money to claim a name and a site for myself (in the process also getting picked up by Davezilla, which for me is cool) only to have my PC, which has serviced me tolerably well lo these many years, decide that it wants to stop working properly.

It is not viruses because I’m fairly anal about that; after discovering 146 different ILoveU instances on one of my old computers, I spend a fair amount of time (when I’m not using the thing, obviously) scanning for viruses, malicious cookies and all the other various bits and pieces of nastiness that can crop up on a computer belonging to a user who … who … who well, treats the Internet as a free-for-all of illegal activities. If you do what I do, viruses are expected, accepted, and dealt with. You cannot justly bitch and moan about fragging the shit out of your hard drive if you spend all your time and bandwidth downloading hacked Microsoft (i don’t, this is an example) software from The Pirate Bay. That’d be like being upset about getting the clap during a hippie love-in. Be realistic.

It’s geriatric hardware working beyond it’s capabilities, is all. The hard and the soft of wares becomes more and more system resource intensive as time goes on; a computer ten years ago would have a diffiicult time running Microsoft’s 2007 version of Outlook because of all the bells, whistles, and steam cannons it has underneath the hood. The same with current versions of internet browsers (and I’m not even talking about sites, here, which are laden down with shockwave and java and flash and lord knows what else).

I am getting mightily impatient for my new computer, partly because I am not looking forward to migrating to a new operating system, replenishing my cookies, updating passwords, downloading hotfixes, installing new drivers, rebooting every three minutes and generally wasting the first day or so of my new computer’s existence making it work to my satisfaction.