I’m pretty sure my computer is out to get me -and not in any of the obvious, open ways others’ do. It’s my computer, after all.
For example, this morning it wouldn’t load. It sat behind a completely black screen. Smirking. Right before the point at which I was planning on smacking the keyboard against my head in a furious fit of rage -it displayed a message: Cannot load user profile.
Okay, I thought, You wanna play that way? We’ll restart. My hand reached for the power button.
*Bing* Up popped my Windows account, good as ever.
Oh good. I’ve shown it who’s boss. I opened Chrome.
…
It’s still loading.
And that is why this post was written on my phone.
chelowens.com 
The clever thing about machines with artificial intelligence is that they know how to make us think they’re dumb…
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I’m beginning to suspect that…
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Wow, I would have been frustrated! Yes, it’s those moments when you are really needing to get something done, and things are just not quite adding up. Hope it’s working now Chelsea!
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Thanks. 🙂 Yes, very frustrating!!
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Grrrr who do those gremlins think they are?
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Microsoft boggarts.
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Years ago at work we had a printer with a name of Diablo. I maintained it was aptly named. The likelihood it would malfunction was directly correlated to how much you needed it not to malfunction. Somewhere along the line computer/printer-makers wised up and didn’t broadcast the evil in the names. Doesn’t mean it isn’t still there, though.
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I’d be way too superstitious to name one that. 😀
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Time to switch to Apple products.
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😀 They all have problems.
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I rarely have any issues with my apple products. I have a Macbook pro laptop, iPad pro and iPhone. The only time I have had issues is when I haven’t updated my devices. Then they might run slow. The school system used apple so I got used to it and now I would never go to another device. I even have apple TV.
Plus apple care is there to get you through any tech issues. I love my apple products. But then again, I think I have become a tech whore. LOL
My youngest son (the one who makes movies) swears by apple products and wouldn’t use anything else. He uses his apple watch on set but has his iPhone ten in his pocket while he is filming. At home he sets up scenes for the next day on his Macbook Pro and emails or texts the actors and film crew where they need to be and what time etc. You can’t make mistakes or have mess-ups when you are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every day filming. So, I respect his judgement in what he uses on tech products. Just saying’…
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Old prejudices on my part. 🙂 We use computers for gaming, writing, and programming. We’ve always used the (more expensive!) Apple laptop for music-creation and such.
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Yes, Apple is in my opinion the best. My word program is the Mac version.
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the magic of the restart button… but when even that fails you……….
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It gets restarted more than it ought!
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But will sometimes work perfectly fine the day after
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Exactly! It’s out to get me.
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