Okay I get that electronic things have a finite sort of existance....I really do get that. Today however I'm confused! I've either ticked off the Great God Of All Things Electronic or I have a poltergiest.

I get up this morning, nice morning, hot coffee in hand I sit down at the computer and fire it up....pretty much like every morning. ZZZZFFFTTTTT! ZZZZFFFTTTTTT! goes my monitor! Then it proceeds to go black but the power button light goes on and off and on and off and on and off. Somehow in my sleep fogged mind I realized this was perhaps not such a good thing really so I pull the power plug. Having taken a moment to slug down a bit of coffee and hoping that in some way I've misunderstood this situation I plug the monitor back in and it proceeds to do the psychotic on/off thing for a bit more time. I determine, after a few more guzzles from my coffee cup, that my monitor has gone to the Great Computer Junkyard in the Sky. Luckily (and cheapo me that never tosses out anything) I have an old, spare monitor tucked in my closet.

Lugging the stupid heavy thing down the stairs I set it up and whammo I'm back in business. Pretty good all in all I figure.

Well later I decide I should really take some pictures of Lynn's baby boa we are snake sitting for her. So I grab my digital camera and flick it on......and I flick it on....and...umm....ON! Nada, nothing, bupkis! So I figure okay, we just need us some new batteries. I proceed to steal said batteries from various sources since having a pack of batteries in my house untouched is beyond anyone's capacity to understand. Again....nada...dark screen...BLECH. So I dig around and come up with the A/C adapter which I know works...I use it all the time to save on batteries for pictures around the house. You'd think this would work wouldn't you.

Well nope....apparently I've also killed the camera today. Personally I've determined that I have a poltergiest and am trying to figure out how long it takes to become a Catholic so I can call a bloody priest before this thing kills my precious coffee maker (which funny enough hasn't been working all that well lately either and I've had to resort to *feels faint* instant coffee!)