I mashed it back down. For many of us, our systems exist as a delicate balancing act of interconnected devices and software, an unsteady house of cards. In fact, I think it's a significant reason we often instinctively hold back from buying more add-ons. Most of us remember at least one dreadful incident in which adding some seemingly benign component caused the entire house to teeter and collapse. Esoteric quirk of my own, my friends have all learned to take advantage it and now enthusiastically lead me directly to their computer rooms within sixty seconds of hello hugs.
Relatives always visit with their computers in their trunks, sheepish grins on their faces.
A recent electronic acquaintance booted Win95 to a full-screen, empty folder named Barbie Fashion Designer. Honor-bound into defending my profession, I was forced to point out that the IRS might be interested in a few of their Quicken entries. One of my reviewers has been having trouble all week installing a title. He's been getting Not Enough Disk Space and Out of Memory errors. But at least they waited a dozen years to do that.