Some higher power doesn’t want me to complete the November Challenge. I am sure of it. All this week, since returning to work from holidays, I’ve been all over the place trying to find time to squeeze out a daily article. And now, finally, not content to test me in that small way, the gods of the internet have reached up and sucked the very means by which I write out from under me.

I came home last night to find my computer displaying the Blue Screen of Death. I was understandably miffed about this, but figured a quick restart should do the trick. It did, but when I woke up in the morning, my computer had glitched. It was frozen on the screen saver, and it had weird sprites all over the screen. A restart again did the trick, for the time being.

However I’ve come home tonight, and a restart no longer does the trick. The computer seems to be working fine, but doesn’t revert back to normal display. It stays all glitchy and weird. Tomorrow is going to be taken up with trying to get it fixed, however as it’s a Dell, I’m afraid I may have to send it away to be repaired.

However, I have not learned how to use the internet with only my mind, although that is a talent I hope to some day aquire. Instead I’m using the computer in the next room, an inferior machine, but good enough to get the job done. I will not fail this challenge.

Although at this rate both my hands are going to drop off by Monday, and that would be unfortunate for a number of reasons, “not being able to blog” falling around 23rd in descending order of importance.