Possessed
Posted by: Cléa in General, tags: cbmused, desktop freezing, high CPU, PC heaven or hell, pull the plug
It freezes on a whim, leaving everything hanging in its wake. It renders everything inoperable, leaving me no choice but to pull the plug. A mysterious dent has appeared on its front, as if it had been (in)advertently kicked, in frustration.
Yesterday it greeted me with with a grunt and the white angels of death while I watched it trying to boot for 10 minutes. Purgatory is such a long wait when reviewing its sins. How frequently it disconnects the monitor signal, well, just because. The way it has self-destructed its restart button, then destroyed three keyboards and two mice (including wireless) in its four year life span. The gluttony for eating up two hard drives, one power supply and 1GB of RAM and the recently developed greed for all the CPU it can find; such obesity has rendered many programs inoperable.
Yet this morning, it greeted me with the usual jingle hello, flashed my name on the screen and tempted me to push its buttons a little further, just as I threatened to pull the plug and deliver the final coup de grace.
My desktop is possessed, soon to be greeted by the gates of Heaven or Hell.
