Ouch.
I tried to fire up the big rig earlier..twice my UPS went postal, third time the PC started up. So, I settled back, extended my arm and pressed the power button on my trusty old Dell 15″ Trinitron CRT monitor. Normally the degauss coils “clunk” as the monitor powers up.. I was expecting it. What I wasn’t expecting was pain, emanating from my forehead. After shooting the chair backwards, grabbing my face, calling the world a few choice names etc, I opened my eyes to see…
A Needle. A fine sowing needle, used by Jem. Normally sat on my “monitor top” shelf, quite happily. Today, I must have angered the great PC god, and the needle was literally flung by the force of the degauss circuit firing, off the shelf and into my forehead as I sat there, with some considerable force I must say.
For an impersonal, immobile, unspeaking and unfeeling hunk of wires and circuits..my computer seems to have an attitude…