Critical Failures and NaNoWriMo

November 1, 2008 · Filed under life, NaNoWriMo, sucktitude, writing · Tagged crappy computers, failure, frustration, NaNoWriMo, sucktitude

I haven’t got any writing done today, and I’m not even sure it’s my fault. Ever since I got up this morning the great DnD player in the sky has been rolling critical failure after critical failure.

I woke up around 6am, which is the norm for me, aiming to write until everywhere opens at half 8. Which would have been easy. Had things not gone wrong from the very beginning.

My mother woke up at the same time and threatened me about going in the front room because she was going to sleep in the back room. My computer is in the front room. I got angry and went back to my room and ended up falling asleep again, waking at half 8. When I was supposed to finish writing.

And then I went to download Open Office. The installer took an hour and a half to download. It then turned out to be corrupted.

I then went looking for a lightweight word processor, which I found and downloaded the installer for. Which also turned out to be corrupt.

Opening Notepad turned out to be fruitless as well. The laptop crashed as soon as my fingers touched the keys.

Sometimes I genuinely think that there’s something out there that wants to make my life as frustrating as possible.