I wish I could write another medium-length, partially insightful, mostly useless post to inform you of other happenings in the DC area today, but there seems to be a bigger picture here that refuses to let that happen: my mouse . I am at war with it, this demonic mouse. I have had to rewrite sentences twice so far because the stupid cursor clicks onto another part of the paragraph, interrupting my flow and putting the words in the middle of previous sentences. It is useless and I hate it. Just a terrible way to spend your last day before the long 4th of July weekend; fighting an inanimate object, that is.

The worst part is that I got the tech people at my office to come look at it, and when they did, the cursor just sat there, motionless. Not clicking to close or minimize windows or highlighting parts of a paper four pages as it has been doing for hours now. Just acting like the inanimate object it is. I feel like I’m in one of those horror movies where one person (me) sees the bad things going on while everyone else (the tech people) don’t recognize it (aside: I know that there’s a movie out there that I would link to for some happy times during the day, but it seems that the name of that movie has slipped my mind permanently [another aside: saw Hancock last night, and for how badly it’s getting absolutely destroyed by critics – Rotten Tomatoes gave it 36% and Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post, who has never met a movie he’s liked, just demolished it in the review – it’s a decent movie with a good premise that might falter toward the end but doesn’t deserve the criticisms usually, now back to the story]). I’m not saying the tech people did a bad job with my computer, it was all the mouse. And it’s not just the mouse – it’s any mouse (or mice) that I plug into the computer. So, anyone within the loyal readers out there with technical advice, hit me up. I cannot spend another minute fighting the stupid mice of the world.