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

My Yahoo account has this strange habit: it lies to me.

Now, I was always under the impression that computers never lie. And, like HAL, that they never make mistakes. But often my email account will tell me that I have, say, 1 New Message. I will then go to my Inbox and there will be NO new messages. It lies to me by saying this on the Yahoo homepage in that little box. It also does this when I log onto Yahoo Messenger and a little thing will pop up if supposedly have new mail.

This is heartbreaking because whenever I see in that little box on the homepage or the little thing that appears, it gets my hopes up because it means that someone cares enough about me to send me a message. I love that nice small, but bold, blue font that says 1 (sometimes 2, but this is rare) New Message, or the little Doot! sound the pop up thing makes when I log onto Messenger. But then I'm sad when it turns out to be a lie.

A while back, with a different account, I had a similar situation when it would say I have new mail and it would turn out to be worthless junk mail. This was mainly irritating because this was back in the day when I had crap dial-up connection and I would sometimes have to wait ten minutes, and possibly several disconnections, to recieve a stupid advertisement.

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New Year's Eve is always the most depressing holiday to me. This is mostly because we pretty much do nothing on this day. Like, it always turns out to be gloomy weather and a boring day otherwise and we just sit in the dark (we're solar/wind powered, so we must conserve battery charge. My dad's a real stickler for this) eating plain, cold oatmeal. And it's usually slightly undercooked. The one thing I hate, possibly more than Hitler or 'The Brady Bunch', is undercooked food like potatoes or rice or pasta or whatever. I absolutley can't tolerate it. Anyway, last year I don't think I even stayed up to midnight to watch the ball in Times Square fall, I just went to bed and 10.30 or 11.00, I was so depressed. But tonight we're going to watch DVDs of 'Stardust' and 'The Shining'.

Happy Freakin' New Year.

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