Confused

[rejectomorph]

So I've got all the stuff I need for setting up the machine, as far as I know. I can't find an external AC-DC adapter among all the detritus in the boxes. It isn't mentioned in the (minimalist) instructions, so maybe it's inside the tower? I'm not opening the damned thing to find out. I don't want the Jinn to escape. Anyway, it may be that I'll have to summon a nephew to help set the thing up. How long before one is available, I don't know. For the time being, the room is a mess, with open boxes and computer parts scattered everywhere. The cat is disturbed. I'm annoyed. The setup is supposed to be done in about fifteen minutes. Nobody said that the fifteen minutes referred to was about fifteen minutes before Hell freezes over. There's too much stuff that likes to pretend to be other stuff.

I've never gotten along well with technology. Technology and I have a fundamental disagreement. I think things should be simple and sensible. Technology thinks things should be insanely complicated. It's all part of Technology's plan to take over the world. Someday, the machines will kill us all.

Sluggo gets at least one more day. This is not good, as the house has turned hot despite the day having been reasonably cool. I think that this house may be serving as a heat sink for the entire town. Outside, I need a jacket tonight. In this room, I ought to be wearing shorts and a T shirt.

Oh, and I heard a flock of ducks flying over a while ago. I like ducks. They don't need to be plugged in.

Comments

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you didn't get one of those dell deals.
I got the box and was set up about 20 minutes after we got Adele out of the packaging.
only needed the teenager to hold the box while I pulled it out.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

Towers usually don't need AC-DC adapters.

[rejectomorph]

Sluggo has one. But then, Sluggo has always been a weirdo.

The new monitor has one, though, and Sluggo's monitor doesn't, but Sluggo's monitor is a CRT.

[rejectomorph]

Yeah, it's a non-Dell. I kept finding coupons for good discounts, but they were always expired by the time I got ahold of them.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

Did they ship your new machine from the Bizarro World?

[rejectomorph]

The Bay Area? Yes, they did.

[myasma.livejournal.com]

And to think I was wondering what you would find to write about in the <post-sluggo era. :)

[33mhz.livejournal.com]

They don't need to be plugged in.

They don't need to be, but they're extremely entertaining when they are.

[rejectomorph]

All technology despises me and wishes for my destruction. I will never lack material for Luddite rants.

For example, I wrote an earlier reply to your comment, but Sluggo crashed and destroyed it. He fights me to the end!

We are all on board the Titanic! We are all doomed!

[rejectomorph]

I've never plugged in a duck. I've never found a long enough extension cord.