Possessed

Before I get into today's post I want to pass on a hearty congratulations to Mark, one of the friends I have made while in my job search. This week he accepted a position that he had been working for several month and will start in a few weeks. Great to hear that things are starting to move ahead on the job front. Any way onto today's post.

I have always had a way with computers. Ever since I was a kid and I learned wordstar on an old green screen PC.

Its not that I could make them do anything special its just that they either did what I wanted them to or they quickly learned that I would beat them into submission. After going head to head with a computer they tended to learn that they couldn't win so they did what I wanted.

My wife seems to think that I perform some kind of voodoo on computers. At least once a week, usually when she is doing PTA stuff she will ask me to take a look at something. It is usually something like a formatting or searching for something.

To give her credit she is pretty good with computers and knows how most applications are supposed to work. If she calls me I know that she has tried to figure it out on her own multiple times and is getting frustrated. The funny thing is that many times I don't even have to touch the computer for it to do what she thought she wanted it to do. It is as if I have some kind of aura and the computer knows that Master Yoda is in the room and it had better comply. Needless to say this drives my wife crazy.

As I said in my last post, we bought her a computer so she wouldn't have to come back into "the hole". Within a week she was convinced that I had taught her computer to respond only to me. It could be that I have her running a beta of Window 7 or it could just be my aura. Either way at least I will know that I will always be needed around our house to keep the PC gremlins at bay.