Kainaw's Journal: The Purpose of the Universe

At least twenty years ago, I realized that the purpose of the universe is to piss me off. Others have thought that this was a rather ridiculous notion, but if they get to know me, they start to notice that it is rather justified. My life is a string of events that all have a similar theme - seemingly random events that exist for the sole reason of trying to piss me off. Here's an example:

Six weeks ago, my wife complained that her camera's battery wasn't holding a charge. I checked it and, sure enough, the battery was pretty much dead. I searched online and found a replacement. They are a bit expensive for batteries, but cheaper than buying a new camera. All was well.

Four weeks ago, my wife asked me to help her look for the battery charger. She was afraid she lost it when we went out of town the weekend before. We searched all week and couldn't find it. Again, I searched online for another one. I had two choices, pay Sony a huge price for the charger and get free shipping, or pay a distributor a discounted price with a hefty shipping charge. I bought it straight from Sony. The day after it arrived, she found her original battery charger.

Two weeks ago, my wife mentioned that an orange light on the camera comes on sometimes and it won't snap pictures. I didn't see a problem when I tested it. Then, she mentioned it was happening more often. Finally, last weekend, the orange light came on for good. The camera was dead. So, I took her out to buy a new one. The whole time, I was thinking about the new battery and charger I just purchased.

Well, guess what - no cameras available are compatible with her memory sticks, batteries, or charger. So, I had to buy a new camera (which luckily came with a battery and charger) and new memory sticks. We get home and I test her new memory stick in her mouse. She has a mouse that lets you put a memory stick in it and reads it through USB - very nice for moving pictures from the memory stick to the computer. Of course, the mouse failed to read the new memory sticks. I looked up the documentation and found that I had a version 5 mouse. I needed a version 7 to read the new memory sticks. So, I searched online and purchased a new mouse. I wonder what the next ordeal will be in this thread of bad luck.

That is just one way that the universe has been trying to piss me off the last month. Don't get me started on the nine weeks it took to get my database server ordered, getting my roof reshingled and finding out that they didn't fix the hole that was the reason I called them in the first place, or having both of my computers restart whenever they feel like it. As I stated, the purpose of the universe is to try and piss me off.

Ahh, yet another reason I like canon powershots

[nizo]

We as a household have had four of them; the only reason we got new ones was the previous ones were stolen :-( Not only do they work great, but they use regular AA batteries (we of course have two vanilla chargers and a big pile of rechargeable AAs) And the memory cards aren't freakish and can be read fine with our card reader, though so far I have been able to just connect them to our machines and they download without a hitch. So apparently I am part of the universe that is driving you insane.