h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

No, it's fine. I felt hugely popular to see my mailbox being flooded with fan mail

What, isn't that your normal state of affairs though?

No...

Once I deal with 27 work-related e-mails, ammend 4 technical manuals that I find waiting (I wrote them, so I get the fun of ammendments ), and then settle up a travel expense claim, ... I'll have to see about filling up your mail box. Maybe just after you've gone home.

Really?

Well let's see, ... I have a full hour or so once home. So I can probably formulate any number of notions, devilments, and ...

It's still empty.

My home net stuff broke. I really don't like WindowsXP ...

Get a Mac!

And then do what with a power-house PC, a pretty stout (less than year old) Dell notebook, and a somewhat more tired notebook (my travel companion)?

It was the ing firewall, ... allowed MSN, but no browsers, no access to other drives on the other systems.

I gave it a really good scowling and it began to work again.

Yes, thaty's good. I just wish I could do that with my microwave too!

Your microwave is unco-operative? Try a scowl, then a big pointy stick, and then if all else fails, ... a BFH.

That would be a Big Hammer.

I'm taking it back to the store tomorrow. It's only a month and a half old.
And it's my main cooking tool!

Then it should certainly still be covered by a warranty of some sort, and a BFH not called for.

Unless, of course, you were trying to cook something a bit un-natural?

Yeah - it's boxed up and in my car already. I'm taking it back after work today.
And no - I wasn't trying to cook anything unnatural!

Hey, for all I know, you might have been impatient and tossed a tin of something into it, ... without removing the tin first !!!

I hadn't even turned it on yet!

Oh that's really rude then, isn't it? When it's broken even before you can properly give it a test-drive. You should demand compensation for grief, pain and suffering as well. I mean really, being FORCED to over-do on muffins is simply inhumane.

Exactly!
Btw, did you get my email?

I found one, and replied to it, about 2 hours ago. Nothing has appeared since. Do you suppose the mail-goblins got it? Nasty little things like to gobble up e-mails all over the place.