My Computer is a Piece of Crap

A computer is a very, very important tool in me maintaining the small amount of sanity allotted to those of us who write. Often, it seems, we are also those haunted by more computer problems than most anyone else, probably because we basically live on our laptops.

And mine is...*prods computer* I'm not gonna lie. It's a gigantic piece of crap.

Granted, the thing is three years old this December. And ever since the very day it was gifted to me (also known as Christmas '07) it has not wanted to charge. A true testament to its crapiness: It has gone through at least fifteen, probably twenty, adapters in the past two and a half years. Not only is this the world's biggest waste of cash--think about it, $15 per cord, 15-20 cords, that's around $300-$400--but this stupid thing cost $1500 in the first place, although we only paid $1100 due to a variety of sales and the like going on around Christmas.

The point is, right now the stupid thing is busy throwing a hissy fit and not charging at all. And because it seems the no one in my house remembers the last time this happened, or the time before that, or the time before that, etc., even when the thing stops charging they persist to carry it around and not plug it in regardless. So then the battery drains. And we plug it back in eventually, and then they're all saying, "Why isn't it charging?"

Which brings me to another point: There's no way we got, say, 17 malfunctioning adapters in a row, it just doesn't happen. One of them would have been normal and actually worked. So it's obviously a problem with the computer itself. But of course, we'll have to waste $1100 on adapters before we just get a new one. We've also tried buying a new battery, which is somewhere around here, fully charged. Where? No one knows. None of them. So, it's been lost, and no one knows where it could possibly be, not even the slightest inkling.

Currently the battery has drained itself entirely and is not charging at all. So if it comes unplugged at all, the computer turns off straight away and everything you were doing disappears. This problem being yet another reason I need my own computer. That and NaNo...But that's a rant for a later day.

Let's pray I don't kill anything over this, shall we?

-Ave, thoroughly annoyed at her computer and her father for purchasing said computer