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A weekend of nothing but World of Warcraft… It sounded like heaven! PvP! Karazhan! Leveling our Rogues! Buying the Badge of Tenacity for the hubby’s Druid if either of us saw it on the Auction House!

We’ve been pretty busy lately and the game has kind of slipped through the cracks as the weather warmed and we found ourselves being social for the first times since we’d become accustomed to the winter hibernation.

Friday night my husband came home, turned his computer on and nothing happened. Well, to be honest, things happened, but they weren’t good. After futzing with it for a while, we brought it to Best Buy, since they’re the closest thing we have to computer repair ever since CompUSA went out of business. It was so mucked up they couldn’t do anything with it without shipping it out, ensuring a several week wait. So, we brought it home and he had at it himself. He swapped parts with our backup desktop (the one that it had replaced), with no luck to either of them… both seemed to think we were destined to be away from Warcraft this weekend. Even my old laptop was on the fritz. In a household of four computers, mine was the only working one (fingers crossed it avoids the bad vibes in this place).

Here’s my question: Why is it when you decide to step away from the computer it’s okay, but when the computer decides it for you, it is like a life sentence at Rikers? We were at a loss of what to do the entire weekend and found ourselves, dare I say it, going to bed early some of the nights and during the day futzing with the torn apart computer boxes.

As it is now, we are waiting on a motherboard to be shipped, which will hopefully remedy our problems (fingers crossed), and we’re quickly running through all the rentals at our local video store and getting our fill of Law and Order reruns. Have our lives become so hung up on having working computers in the house that we’re unable to function without? It’s kind of funny, and remarkably sad, at the same time.

So, for now, signing off from our one computer household, thanking my lucky stars that for once I’m not the one with the computer problems.

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