People,

Well, the crap-ass Compaq Presario is fully operational once again. Man, I hate when computer stuff breaks. It completely throws me for a loop, especially since I'm the type of person who thinks he's a lot smarter than he is and never writes things own or remembers where he put them.

And so as I start to rebuild my computer from the image of the hard drive I saved on an external drive I keep being faced with many "What the hell?" questions.

All my programs now need their original discs and serial numbers to be re-installed. Some of them, like Microsoft Office are being stone cold bitches. I probably should have kept some of that stuff around, but isn't there any built in security to protect dumbasses like me?

Also, all my cookies are gone, so every password protected site I visit needs me to remember passwords I made up in a drunken stupor two years ago. And so if I'm lucky enough to get the user name right I end up getting emails that look like this.

Dear Sprint PCS customer,

Thank you for contacting us concerning your forgotten password. It is FARTsTER7632. Please remember that all passwords are case sensitive.

Good lord.