I'll spare you the rant that those closest to me have witnessed & just tell you that my frustration stems from speed--or a serious lack of it--from my notebook. Things that should take me 3 seconds are taking me 5 minutes or more!
The speed problem seems to stem from a "neat little trick" my PC does.
I don't remember downloading the app for this, but I surely must have...
Maybe you've heard of the trick... Maybe your PC does it too (I understand most of them do). I think it's called Completely Random Asymptomatic Shutdown Hysteria.
CRASH for short.
And the best part is powering it back up again, going through the 7 or 8 restarts, the "NO ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE INSTALLED" warnings (yes, there is!), the "THIS PROGRAM DID NOT SHUT DOWN PROPERLY" (duh!) dialog boxes, and seeing all the neat little icons that magically appear in my system tray in the place of the ones I recognize.
Through all of my groans, grunts, & frustrated outbursts, Jen sits next to me, typing away on her MacBook that hasn't been turned off in 4 or 5 weeks!! She doesn't even lift her eyes up at me anymore when it happens... She just offers a robotic "sorry" & keeps on getting her work done. (Must be nice!)
So, tonight as it happened AGAIN (The 3rd time today, actually), I slumped back in my chair (again), rubbed my forehead (again... I'm getting blisters up there!), sighed (again!!), & half-heartedly prayed that oh-so-desperate prayer of the PC owner...
"Why, God?! WHY?!!!"
Well, God didn't answer me.
It was either because He uses a PC & couldn't get my prayer in a usable format so Internet Explorer was searching the internet for a suitable program, or because He uses a Mac & therefore I--as a lowly, Steve-Jobs-envying PC owner--am not worthy of an answer.
Whichever was the case, I sat there & thought to myself, "I must've prayed for patience somewhere along the line, & this blasted--I mean blessed--machine is the tribulation that's going to bring it!"
Well, I have had it up to my well-hidden, but undeniably-receding hairline with this PC! I'm going to get a Mac! And--hopefully--some patience.
Something tells me the Mac will be the easier of the two to get!
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