Fail

I just listened to my answering machine take the following call.

"We have an important message for . If you are , please call us at [redacted] and give case number [redacted]."

It's so nice to see mail merge failure spreading to the robo-call market.

And this one applies to me...

In between working this afternoon, I've been moving things around this room and picking up clutter and trash. So I set the external mouse (the built-in one quit working a while back) on top of my laptop keyboard and left the screen open to watch for updates.

And then proceeded to bump the table that the laptop was sitting on, and have time only to cringe as the floppity screen (hinge also not working well) fell *crack* right onto the mouse.

My screen now displays nothing but narrow vertical stripes radiating down from the crack, on a white background.

As if I had $800 for a new laptop.