Possessed

I'm starting to think my computer is possessed. It’s either that, or I was given a trick computer as part of a little intern initiation thing. Little late, guys, but thanks.

There’s nothing really disturbing about the things that happen with my computer while I’m at work. Just little things where you can’t think of anything to do but lift your hands off the keyboard and tilt you head to the side a little. Like dogs do. It’s almost like my computer is making fun of me.

I’m going to go with the whole possessed thing, because weird thing started happening right on Friday the 13th. I was writing a response to a friend when I accidentally grazed the little mouse thing that’s placed in the center of the keyboard. All of a sudden the screen flashes and the browser reloads the page to the Microsoft Community Forums. I’ve visited that site a few times at work, but not that day. And the page isn’t bookmarked anywhere.

Right. Lifts hands off keyboard…

Same day, I’m reading another webpage. This time, without hitting anything, the browser closes. Odd. I opened Firefox up again and went about my business. About a half hour later, the program I’m using doesn’t respond. This isn’t all that unusual, so I start up the task manager and end that program. The program closes – and then that old browser window pops up.

Lifts hands…

Since then I’ve had window freezes, error messages, mouse moving around when I’m not touching it, and other oddities of that nature. Today I was trying to show a coworker part of this program I’m working on. Three times I tried opening the thing, and three times the whole program froze up and need to be closed. Until he left. Now it works great.

Very funny, stupid computer, very funny.