James, that is a sad story indeed.
The idea of having a plan B and having another modem available to plug in is one that few would use I think, including myself.
The darn things are just not trust-worthy enough. We all tend to trust our machines as if they will keep going long beyond we do and survive us.
I have had hard drives die on me just because the indexing sector got one bad little byte gone wrong on the disc surface inside the drive. CD's have not been able to be read anymore.
Power outages, monitor gone fooey and bulb burnt out, keyboards gone key by key, screaming into the plastic recycling bin somewhere (hopefully), once a pair of stamp tongs accidentally mis-handled and bounced around on my fumbling fingers to finally land in the open sided computer a foot away and onto an electronic card inside, sparking as it bounced from card to card while I valiantly yelped in concerned woe.
This is not to mention the physical beatings I have subjected the poor computer to, when it just would not understand the official language I was instructing it in.
And one of these days that bottle of water that I keep next to me, to drink while I am working and slaving away, on my stamp studying here and there on the Internet, will tip over, the vicious thing, accidentally of course, just when I am not watching out for it, onto the still open-sided computer, foolish as that silly thing is to leave itself so open to attack, that I also keep next to me.
When will the world ever learn!??
And they all keep hiding that darn anger management CD on me somewhere, drat it all. I'll get them, you just wait.
Ahem, er, have a nice day, all.
Posted 02/03/2013 8:26 pm
