Computer upkeep!?$%&

Oh how frustrated I have been today. I was raring to go; I was so ready to write and accomplish my list today. Notice my title with its pretense substitute for words not acceptable to conversation. I was that mad. Do I have a right to be angry just because that little machine has a difficult day? I mean the fact that the little plug-in gizmo called a WIFI USB adaptor suddenly disappears from my computer - it is a problem. There, last night, but gone this morning. No one confesses to taking it. I know I did not. I gave everyone who even approached my office in the last 36 hours a good grilling. Not one person confessed. Well, now I'm left with the thought that there is ghost in my office.

That ghost also interfered with the installation of my new and improved gizmo. It took three times to install it. It couldn't be me. I read instructions carefully; it must have been the computer ghost. It is telling me something that I don't want to hear.

I have resolved to embrace my karma. This ghost is telling me to murder my computer. I'm not against taking that action normally; after all I write murder mysteries, but...... I need the computer. So my karma is to suffer and accept that my computer needs attention too, especially since I am unable to read my own handwriting.

K. B. Pellegrino, Author