Another kind of freeze

My daughter and Molly, the beagle-goat, have been trying to one-up each other to see which can ruin more of my things faster and drive me crazy.

Last night I was online late, IMing. Suddenly my computer totally froze. It was completely dead. I tried to restart, but it wouldn't even go through the restart process.

This morning I tried again. I almost restarted in safe mode and did a restore, but it froze again. I spent much time and wasted a lot of special magic words and gestures.

Eventually I found that when my wireless card was in, it froze. I also found that I could not get the cable to work when hooked directly into the computer.

Alrighty then. I am on dialup. I had noticed that my speed was down, but didn't attribute it to anything. I read in the newspaper that my cable company recently doubled the speed. Hm. I am not finding dialup to be much slower that what I was dealing with recently.

I do find that leaving comments is sometimes not happening. I do time out there once in a while, so do not be shocked if I normally leave you comments and suddenly you aren't getting any. I am reading as always.

Perhaps this is a Dell issue. I still need to call them yet again about the CD reader/writer I paid for 2 years ago. So far I have had two different readers only. Sigh. I have heard they excel at the bait-and-switch. I may go to law school just so I can get Dell after I graduate.

In the meantime, now it's the computer, the dog, and the child. Three makes a conspiracy, right?