Jenny, my husband does computer work and network consulting. If your IT guys can't work out an *ahem* "arrangement", my husband would totally be willing to barter sex for the repair of your machine.

as i heard my sweet three year old daughter say when she was playing on nickjr. online and something went, i dunno - 'wrong' would be my guess, "Suckity Suck Suck Suck Suck Sucks."

...that isn't advice you know, just empathy.

Give me your snail mail address. I'm sending you a freaking thumb drive!

You have got some serious bad computer mojo.

J1: Wow - what a generous offer! That's so cool that he's willing to sleep with my IT guys to help me out! I'll let you know what they say...

J2: Hmm. That is almost exactly what I said, except it didn't start with "s."

R: Thumb drive? Now you're just making fun of me. Even I know that thumbs can't drive!

Oh no, they suckered you into a Trek Con? I'm so sorry. Geek though I may be, I can proudly say I've never been to one of those. Although the photographer in me is morbidly curious.

Trek Con vs it staff sex ... you may be better off sleeping with the it guys.

You're going to have to succomb to the flat-iron for Uhura's hair. An maybe go for ho-eyes too. Aagh, the humanity....

I breathe a sigh of relief for you. I keep wondering if I am ever going to learn the back up your files lessson. After each wipe out I am lulled back into a sense of security.

I was at a bus stop once when a trekkie scanned me with his spaceage instrumentation and decided I was a valid life form before he started talking to me in a Klingon/English pidgin. Woah! Have fun chica!

hey, it could be worse than a trek con. AND at least you don't have to go as counselor troi. uhura got to wear those sexy white vinyl boots that made even nancy sinatra jealous.

have fun getting your geek on. :)

I remember when my last employer gave me a shitty computer. I would wake up, turn it on, and it was ready to go by the time I arrived at the office.

And then I resigned. Dropped the laptop off my second story balcony into the rocks below. Fedex'd it back First Overnight. And went to work for their sister division.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, Fuck it. IT guys need a warm body sometimes too.

I've had four computers crash in the past four months. Had anyone been able to fix them, they and all of their family and friends would have received all the free sex and donuts they could have tolerated. Hey, everyone loves donuts.

I got interested in your post because I think I lived the same few months earlier this year that you did. Had I known there was a Star Trek Convention at the end I might have reconsidered. I'm with the rest. Risk you job, go for the sex.
ME-Liz

I always say - when live gives you lemons...

ADD VODKA.

You could always dress as Counselor Deanna Troi if the Uhura thing doesn't work out. Or shave your head and go as Captain Jean Luc Piard.

Wow. I really admire your resolve.

I don't recall your difficult times, but I think I'm excused anyhow because I wasn't around the first time you wrote about them. In fact, I think this is the first time I've ever been here. Otherwise I'd remember this cool design.:)

Oh and I feel your pain about computer woes. There's a saying for this: "You don't know what you got till it's gone". In this case, never have truer words been spoken.

wow, I wish I could help you out just to show you that you don't need to take such drastic measures like getting into the middle of your friend's marriage when she's having an off night and he's clearly on.... I would have done it for lunch, somehere cheap even. This is my worst professional nightmare.

First, your family has a lot of strange sayings. Do you know this?

Second, I hope you really do go the the Trek conventon. I can' wait to read THAT post.