anger toward computer

    I know I just posted last night, but something has happened and I must explain.

    At work, I get to use a computer. This is awesome because a) I can blog and b) I can Google things like "Worst Celebrity Plastic Surgery". (Go ahead, look in my viewing history. It's there, and it's not pretty.) I never really know where I'm going to be "placed" (I say "placed" because it's more like "sent" but to make myself feel better, I pretend like my boss actually cares where I go) from day to day, which is ok because my usual basement location gets kind of drafty.

    Right now, I have been "placed" in the basement to work on probably the oldest computer in the entire building. It's not old old, like those ancient desktop computers that look like some creature made from mega-blocks, but it's pretty old. It would be fine if they updated it once in a while, or at least ran a virus scan, but they don't. Which is why I get to use it, no one cares about the basement computer!

    My place of work is in the midst of organizing a ton of school-related events which means I get stuck updating addresses of invitees and making "reserved" signs. Sounds pretty easy, right? It would be if the computer didn't hate me.

    Today I was told to update invitation info. I opened up the attachment in my email, began the mindless process of copying-and-pasting, and then I made the amateur mistake of trying to minimize a window. I should have known better. After trying to patiently wait for about three minutes, this is what my screen had for me:

   Nothing. It literally hadn't even began to "minimize". Getting a little irritated, I wiggled the mouse around. Nothing. More wiggling=nothing. Exaggerated ESC key jabbing=nothing. CTRL+ALT+DEL=nada. Slamming mouse up and down= aha!

   Progress! I can just imagine those little fish taunting me, saying "haha you still can't see all of us! And you're not going to for at least five more minutes! Haha you suck!"

    By now, I was thoroughly pissed. I contemplated punching the screen but realized that would be dificult to explain to my boss. I resorted to just slapping the sides, which probably wasn't a good idea, either. I clicked around, moved my mouse, CTRL+ALT+DELed probably fifty times, and ESCed to no avail.

    SEVEN MINUTES LATER (I'm not even kidding you) it finally sorted itself out. I was relieved but still overwhelmingly irritated. Can't wait for it to happen again! Lesson learned: don't try anything "fancy" on old computers. Stick strictly to simpler methods such as typing, clicking with mouse, and using Word for as many projects as possible.