I love my computer!

     I have a love/hate relationship with my computer.  I love how fast it can do things that would take me days to accomplish.  I love that I can contact someone and they can read my message at their leisure, not when I call them in the middle of something.  I also love being able to look at emails when I have time.  It seems I'm always busy when someone calls.  They think that I am screening and don't want to talk to them.  Not true.  Well, okay I do screen, but not to decide if I want to talk to someone.  If I don't recognize the number, I assume that it is someone trying to sell me something or asking for money.  Hate that.  I also figure that if it is truly important, they will leave a message.  That is what voice mail is for, isn't it?
     What do I hate about computers? Well, how about when my computer tells me that its virus protection is turned off, and to 'click here' to fix the problem.  When I 'click here,' it doesn't tell me how to turn it back on or any other useful information that will help me fix it.  It is just some dead-end, or they try to sell me something like a higher level of protection.  'Cause obviously mine isn't good enough.  How is it that my virus protection tells me that it is checking my email attachments and that they do not contain any threats if the virus protection is actually turned off.  Kinda makes you wonder.  I think therefor I am.  I scan therefor I am on. I don' t know.
     My husband threatens to throw my laptop out the window.  It is at least 5 years old and it is pretty banged up.  It won't hold charge and we have to wrap the cord around the computer and keep it tight with just the right amount of tension at just the right angle to get it to charge in the first place.  When the pink light comes on, you must back away carefully, because any movement of the surrounding table, chair or floor in the immediate vicinity of the computer could tank the whole operation.  When the light turns blue, you should have about an hour and a half to work on it, but lately the battery light is not a true representation of how much power actually remains.
     I should be getting a new laptop sometime this year.  I sure do miss being able to write on the computer and not have to sit at a desk at all times.  I don't know how long I have with the desk top computer I am working on now either.  My brother-in-law has raised it from the dead at least once already.  Thanks Bro.
     Here's something to put on my pet peeves tab.  Why is it that as soon as you get used to using a computer program, they have to change it?  It isn't always better to change things.  No matter when I buy my next computer or what model I buy, it will be obsolete the second I leave the store.  In some cases, probably before my credit card has cleared for payment. UGGGHHH!