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Call me old-fashioned, but there are certain things I don't like my computer to do.

I don't like it when the display suddenly displays pinhole dots all over and then refreshes and freezes. I don't like it when I have to do an emergency reboot and it doesn't make the Mac start-up sound right away.

I'll deal, though. I'll hand it off to my husband so he can plug it in. I'll go into the kitchen and make crackers out of gouda, butter, sorghum flour, and potato flour. At some point--probably while waiting for the oven to heat up--I'll wander back near the mac. I'll notice that it's constantly refreshing SNOW.

I'll attempt to restart it. I'll attempt to boot it in safe mode. I'll note that the screen goes dark. In other words--no light whatsoever. I'll attempt to turn it off blind and seemingly succeed. I'll remove the new Airport card, just in case. I'll replace the keyboard and start it up. It makes the right sounds, but no screen. Even the undocumented glowy apple feature isn't lit. I'll think horrid things about Apple displays and I'll go ask boy where the hell the OSX CDs are. I'll discover they're at the other house. I'll contemplate running it to another monitor, then realize we have no other compatible monitor.

I'll fret and worry. Attempting to reboot gets me the happy sound, but no visual.

Letting it sit and then running a finger over the trackpad results in the hard disk making wake-up clicks, but no visual.

And, once again, I'll curse this infernal machine and wonder why I expect anything different. After all, back in the old days, this was de rigeur, especially if no data had been saved in the last five minutes.

I guess I'm not so old-fashioned, after all.

I am, however, upset.