Look Outside

Sorry I haven't written in a long time, I guess I have been busy with boredom.. However, to even out boredom, the weather has been especially nice the past three days. Today was a wonderful day overall, unfortunately there were some pretty chilly winds. It was said to be 11 degrees Celsius, but judging from my common knowledge, it was a definite 4 degrees. Due to the winds, I concluded of staying close to the window, on the couch, snuggled up with my trusty laptop.

During the day, my "trusty" laptop would randomly either shut off completely, or close the program I was using (mostly internet explorer). I couldn't help but be angry at my laptop, especially because I got it about 5 months ago. I mean seriously? You are new and already breaking down? While I sat, watching the computer come back to life, I just took a breath, and wondered "WHY". No, I obviously did nothing wrong, it's the computer's fault. Lets be honest here, I am human, the computer is technology, technology is not better than human, humans created technology. Okay, that would be a very summed up, conclusive way of expressing how I felt about this situation. When the computer came back up, I immediately ran Norton Virus Scan. Nothing found. Okay, cool so my computer is fine.

After about the fifth time my computer went berserk, I took a moment to regather myself. If there were no viruses found on my computer, no pop ups, nothing weird, except the fact that is shutting down, perhaps I am doing something wrong? No, that cannot be. But wait... it can. When I opened my program once more, I did everything normally, except I asked my brother to watch me as I used my program. I asked him to pay close attention to what I was doing rather than what was going on in the program. Obviously, I asked him to do this for me, because I felt I wouldn't be able to pinpoint it myself. Once I was doing my thing on the computer, my brother right off the bat commented "wow, you click a lot." At that immediate point, I realized what I had been doing wrong. I was completely overwhelming my computer, and it just could not handle everything.

While using the program, I slowed my pace down quite a bit to see if my theory was true. Yes. Indeed it was, and after that, my program never closed again.

Today, I learned a number of things. But I am sure you can figure them all out by reading my post.