Murder, I Wrote.

When will Bill Gates be brought to trial … for murder?

I don’t think it is manslaughter, or in this case, machineslaughter. This just didn’t happen without forethought, or even fivethought. These are repeated, premeditated attempts to murder my computer with his Windows 10 upgrade, and Gates almost got away with it this past weekend. I made the crucial mistake of leaving my laptop unattended and still running while I walked away for a bit. Big mistake as Bill Gates chose that exact moment to swoop in and launch a sneak attack Windows 10 “upgrade.” Was he peeking in my window? How did he know just the right time? Sure, he probably has operatives all over. Hmmm, maybe a mole inside my own family, and definitely one on my back. Upon my return, I found my computer barely hanging onto life. It’s screen had turned blue and all signs of an operating system were gone. It has less computing ability than a Commodore 64.

Thanks to my mad skills of randomly mashing the keyboard with my fist, I somehow coaxed my laptop back to the land of the digital, safely running Windows 8.1 again. There have been days of digital therapy to get back to full operation, and some functions and memories may be lost forever. Where, or where has my Chrome bookmark gone for the video of the cat chasing its tail?

Maybe murder is too harsh of a charge to levy against Gates, but certainly in the court of my alleged mind he has already been tried and convicted for destruction of property, and probably being a peeping Tom. I’m pulling my shades down, and that is not a euphemism.