how to ruin your day #17

1. wake up and go to church.
2. volunteer to record the service.
3. realize you don't know what you're doing.
4. manage to record the service anyway.
5. sing as you get in your car.
6. play one of your favorite cds as you drive home.
7. take a nap when you get there.
8. get up and go get a nice, footlong sub for dinner.
9. dress up.
10. go to a really good play.
11. mingle with the cast and listen to them say neat things about you.
12. sing a jingle or two on your way back, like "eight-hundred five eight eight two-three-hundred, EMPIRE!"
13. add the finishing touches to a one act play that you have spent 50 hours writing.
14. save.
15. stand up.
16. remember your laptop.
17. think, "oh gosh, it would be horrible if i dropped this right now!"
18. drop "this" right now, where "this" is any laptop containing YOUR WHOLE F'ING LIFE.
19. try to catch it, only to ensure that it lands flat, but hard.
20. look at it.
21. realize that it's not "alive," where "alive" is any condition other than "dead."
22. try to turn it on.
23. hear very distressing buzzing noises.
24. receive false hope when the apple logo and the spinning wheel appear.
25. receive even MORE false hope when the computer shows the "starting mac os x" panel.
26. wait twenty minutes, checking every ten seconds to see if it starts working.
27. wait twenty more minutes.
28. watch the bar fill!
29. watch the bar remain full!
30. watch the bar do nothing!
31. turn off computer.
32. reboot.
33. instead of an apple logo, see a crossed-out circle.
34. pray.
35. go to sleep.

[groans all around on me!]
-brian