Kaput
Ahh.. the wonders of technology. For the last month I bore witness to the slow demise of my trusted PC. And like any true blue male.. I ignored the signs of its impending death and simply dismissed it as if it were a woman with mood swings. Oh how I was wrong.
I guess a PC is sometimes like a woman.. you gotta look at the signs, care for it.. know what's wrong. Me? Nah... it was just being temperamental and it would go away and get back to normal, I just had to ignore the few hiccups till it "get better" and went back to normal.
So the days went by and my strict regiment if neglect seemed to have worked. Things were going fine till one night.... Kaput!
It just shut off by itself in a state of anger. So what do? Re-start of course. But this time it just simply refused to take come back on. It wanted my attention. It was dying and I wasn't gonna get away with a simple fix. Oh no.This called an intervention.
Day 1. The Diagnosis. So me and me mates had gone and diagnosed that this was an O/S failure. OK. So a simple 'pill' of reinstalling the O/S should do the trick. And while I'm at it, lets get a new hard disk so that I could store more shit to overload my beloved PC. Sounds like a sound idea. Fix the problem at the same time 'sup up" the PC at the same time. It was like taking a girl to the doctors for a flue shot and getting her implants at the same time. Woo hoo!!
Day 2. So we start with the treatment. But again and again.. Kaput. This wasn't going to be easy. We needed a new approach. So we devised a new plan and a new course of treatment. We're not going to get beat so easy. (Plus I wasn't gonna get a new PC )
Day 3. "I'm sorry sir. Its not responding to the treatment. We might have to go in for surgery". Somehow that dramatic line was echoing in my mind as we tried in vein to fix the problem. We had to call in the "specialist". My mates had conceded defeat and there was nothing they could do. It was terminal. So its off to the shops to get it fixed. Now I wait for the call to know the fate of my PC. Lying comatose somewhere. If only I'd had paid attention to the signs.....
In my years of observing and myself being in failed relationships... I have found some similarities in the situation I find myself in and relationships in general. We tend to get so wrapped up in our own lives and state of affairs that we sometimes fail to see the slow decline and impending crumbling of a relationship. Its sad but it is a reflection of the reality of relationships. So in short, take time out to see the signs, defrag your hard disk, share a moment to know what's going on in his or her life before it goes Kaput.
I guess a PC is sometimes like a woman.. you gotta look at the signs, care for it.. know what's wrong. Me? Nah... it was just being temperamental and it would go away and get back to normal, I just had to ignore the few hiccups till it "get better" and went back to normal.
So the days went by and my strict regiment if neglect seemed to have worked. Things were going fine till one night.... Kaput!
It just shut off by itself in a state of anger. So what do? Re-start of course. But this time it just simply refused to take come back on. It wanted my attention. It was dying and I wasn't gonna get away with a simple fix. Oh no.This called an intervention.
Day 1. The Diagnosis. So me and me mates had gone and diagnosed that this was an O/S failure. OK. So a simple 'pill' of reinstalling the O/S should do the trick. And while I'm at it, lets get a new hard disk so that I could store more shit to overload my beloved PC. Sounds like a sound idea. Fix the problem at the same time 'sup up" the PC at the same time. It was like taking a girl to the doctors for a flue shot and getting her implants at the same time. Woo hoo!!
Day 2. So we start with the treatment. But again and again.. Kaput. This wasn't going to be easy. We needed a new approach. So we devised a new plan and a new course of treatment. We're not going to get beat so easy. (Plus I wasn't gonna get a new PC )
Day 3. "I'm sorry sir. Its not responding to the treatment. We might have to go in for surgery". Somehow that dramatic line was echoing in my mind as we tried in vein to fix the problem. We had to call in the "specialist". My mates had conceded defeat and there was nothing they could do. It was terminal. So its off to the shops to get it fixed. Now I wait for the call to know the fate of my PC. Lying comatose somewhere. If only I'd had paid attention to the signs.....
In my years of observing and myself being in failed relationships... I have found some similarities in the situation I find myself in and relationships in general. We tend to get so wrapped up in our own lives and state of affairs that we sometimes fail to see the slow decline and impending crumbling of a relationship. Its sad but it is a reflection of the reality of relationships. So in short, take time out to see the signs, defrag your hard disk, share a moment to know what's going on in his or her life before it goes Kaput.
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