I really don’t know why they bother putting a Control key on computer keyboards.  Have you ever noticed that it doesn’t help a bit?  I would like to feel like I’m in control of my computer, but I can’t really say that’s true.

I know I usually have too many windows open.  But, why is it that I can be working on Word, for example, and all of a sudden an Internet window will appear at the front of the screen?  Is my computer trying to tell me something?  Is it tired of word processing and would prefer to do some surfing for a while?

Then, there’s the backup program for my external drive.  Sometimes, when I open it, all that appears is a popup window announcing its appearance.  It never actually does anything.  So, I open the Task Manager to stop the process, but the Manager tells me that it really isn’t running.  So, why is it sitting there on the screen?  I don’t know.

My sister tells me that when she shuts down her laptop, she gets a popup screen saying that Outlook is closing and if she turns off the computer, she’ll lose all her messages.  After some period of time, on top of that popup, another one appears saying that Outlook is not responding and must be shut down.  Why can’t it make up its mind?  Should she close Outlook or not??

I sometimes think back to the good old days – and I know I’m dating myself here – but, those were the days when all you had on the PC was an operating system, and it wouldn’t do anything unless you wrote some code.  Yes, they were ugly and didn’t do a whole lot, but I really felt like I was in control!

I’m looking forward to the time when computers will do what you want them to do, not what you tell them to do.  Should solve all these control issues.

I rarely get sick, and I thank heaven for that.  For one thing, I don’t have time, and for another thing, I’m a terrible sick person.  The best thing anyone can do for me is to go away until I emerge from the extreme grumpiness illness causes me.

So, I was appalled last week when I seemed to have come down with the flu.  I went to see a movie over the weekend before last – saw Hancock, which was a good flick.  The person I went with got sick a day later, but I didn’t think anything of it.

Then, I got sick.  What a pain.  I figure some idiot in the movie theater should have stayed home rather than spreading germs around!

I looked in the cabinet for medicine to treat flu-type symptoms and found it - it had expired sometime in 2004.

However, I persevered and recovered.  If you need to talk to me, it’s safe now.