Reflections of Life in The Cold Grey Light of My Monitor

 When I posted last Friday I had no idea that a week would pass before I would be able to post again. It was not exactly the week from hell but it came close. Maybe the week from Purgatory would work,.

Last weekend I bought a new tower for my computer. Over the past few months I have rebuilt my computer, housing the new equipment in the same old clothes. With increased processing speed I decided it was time to up the power in the tower. While a necessary step it created a Frankensteins monster of related problems.

First the computer refused to acknowledge the existance of the second hard drive I installed. While booting up my second cd burner was also ignored. Once those two problems were corrected I made the always fatal mistake of assuming that all would be right in my little world of electronics. WRONG!

When I rebooted the system it was as if the barbarian hordes had been huddled near the gates of Rome only waiting for an unsuspecting guard to open the gates. No sooner had the DSL connection been made when my computer was overwhelmed by the waiting masses. Stopping the onslaught proved to be impossible. The only option I had was to cut the power.

Over the past week using all available tools I began the tedious process of removing the invaders one trojan horse at a time. Finally on Thursday just before I was to leave for my moms I finally eliminated the last of the hanger ons.

While the work was time consuming it was worth it because I was able to recover all of my data. No programs were lost and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief.

It seems that my computer has begun to mimic my own life. I rarely have had any computer problems but it seems that the longer my own illnesses have continued my computer had developed its own set of health problems.

This week while repairing the computer I was fighting off my tenth bronchial infection in the past twelve months. Regardless of what health steps I take my lungs just seem to embrace any virus that comes along.

I completed another round of testing and am still at a point where no cause for my ongoing medical problems has been identified. I have visited most of the specialists in the area and they are batting 000.

The next step is to find a doctor at one of the research hospitals in the area who might have better luck determining the overall cause. Only time will tell.