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End of A friendship--The Saga Continues |
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| I finally did it. After weeks of frustration, and with encouragement from Ray, | |||
| I finally broke off a seven year relationship with my ancient Compaq. | |||
| It's not for the want of trying on my part. I cajoled, I pleaded, I even yelled | |||
| at it. Ray tried many times to intervene with little success. So I decided to | |||
| dump it for a newer model ( the computer, of course--there will never be | |||
| a model that could replace Ray). | |||
| I admitted defeat when the computer started stealing large chunks of my | |||
| sentences as I typed them and would refuse to display them on my monitor. | |||
| Enough is enough. No wonder I have high blood pressure. Could it possibly | |||
| be because I was working with a computer that ate my words, hiccoughed | |||
| and then fell asleep? | |||
| It was time for a new computer. Computers intimidate me. Computer | |||
| salesmen...well, we won't even go there. When they start talking "gigahertz, | |||
| megabytes, kilowatts, and bells & whistles" my mind blanks over, I get that | |||
| doe-caught-in-the-headlights look and after that they can make anything sound | |||
| like a sweet deal. I persuaded Ray to come along and do the dealing for me. | |||
| Ray loves buying computers and he is very good at "computer speak". | |||
| After about two hours of discussions and comparing many different makes and | |||
| models I became the proud owner of a new computer--a nice shiny silver | |||
| computer with a 19 inch matching monitor and lots of "bells & whistles". | |||
| It even has a "double layer burning 8.5 GB max capacity" DVD burner. | |||
| Imagine that! Unfortunately all my work is on 3 1/2 inch floppy disks and | |||
| I didn't get a drive for those. | |||
| So that should be the happy end to my story right. Right!!! After the usual day | |||
| to install all my programs I was ready to learn how to operate this new marvel. | |||
| After a few days I became a little more familiar with Windows XP and was | |||
| starting to enjoy this new relationship. I don't know if I am cursed, but on | |||
| day 5 my computer got sick. The next day it died. Ray tried everything he | |||
| could to restore it, but even the restore disc couldn't revive the computer. | |||
| All we could get was "click, click, click...click, click, click..." The technician on | |||
| the phone agreed it sounded very serious. The courtship was memorable | |||
| but very short. | |||
| I liked that computer so much that I decided to get the same again and this | |||
| time I made the right choice. We now spend a lot of time together. | |||
| And when I turn it on in the morning I am presented with a field of beautiful | |||
| yellow tulips. My new computer learned quickly how to make me happy! | |||
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