my computer

As much as I like the technology of computers, I actually hate using them. My first experience with computers was as a child when I "played" a "game" by which I mean that I played with color levels (rgb) to make cool colors. My favorite to make was lavender because it was so tricky to figure out how to make purple (blue + red) but also make it light (I don't remember how I accomplished this). Then I learned how to type without looking at the keyboard then I got my own computer then I got an email address (apparently I have had one of my yahoo accounts in continuous use for 8 years which is a really long time in my short life). Then I started to hate computers.

One of the first things I learned about computers was how to use Windows Task Manager. I am very good at killing processes that are using extraordinary amounts of CPU. I have dealt with more printer drama than most people see in a lifetime. I am proficient at changing the format of word documents from .odt to .doc (changing their readability from OpenOffice to Microsoft Word, because I grew up without Word). I have dealt numerous times with not being able to open spreadsheets because they were in Excel. I was enabled in all of these instances to figure out computer bugginess both by my own curious nature and my dad's good instructions.

My desktop computer now runs Linux and seems to be moderately reasonable in terms of doing what I want, which is mostly using Google when my two-year-old laptop is incapacitated. Back in the day it would shut down while I was using PaintShop because apparently this was too difficult for it. But this is nothing compared to my laptop. Because for my laptop, iTunes is a stressful application.

I don't know why it is, but if I listen to music for more than an hour and don't use my computer (whose name is the Crimson Dell because it's red and a Dell and it's a play on the Crim Dell) for other purposes, once the screensaver starts I know I'm done for. I can't get my screen to come back for like five minutes and then it will, but iTunes will say that the wrong song is playing and no other application on my computer will respond, so literally my only course of action is to press the power button (I was raised to fear such situations and shy away from damaging my computer by not restarting properly, but sometimes it's necessary).

Whatever. On the bright side of owning a laptop, aside from giving it a great name I have also given it great stickers so that everyone knows what to think of me based on the back of my screen! I'm still in the market for lolzy stickers to fill about a quarter of it, but for now I have plenty of pride in Hufflepuff, Sleeperstar, my ability to vote, thinking green, my support of the milk industry (despite my inability to drink it) and, of course, Justin Bieber.