They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery. Well, I have a problem. We are in the process of getting new computers here at work. I asked one of the techs what they did with the old computers and he replied that they clean them up and either re-furbish or donate them. I turn and ask him, “Please. Please let me take mine home. I’ll gladly pay for it.” To which the tech would reply “Why certainly! Why didn’t you just say so!” I would take this desktop to my house. I would stand in front of my family and tell them with cold eyes and a chilling voice – “I have taken the next week off of work. I will be in the garage during that week. I am not to be disturbed.” I would then take the desktop, place it on top of a metal table in my garage, and ask…”Shall we begin?” Neighbors walking their pets slow their pace when they would come near my garage. They would hear strange sounds – low humming, buzzing, whirring, sawing, crunching, popping, shattering, and the occasional explosion. My kids would wake up in the middle of the night and hear me toiling away in the garage – “Is Dad…crying? Laughing? ….…both”? In a last ditch effort, Sherrie would call the Geek Squad to see if everything was okay in there. Shortly after our heroic 17-year-old on-call tech had himself a peek inside of the garage, he is found in the middle of the driveway, whimpering, rocking himself back and forth saying over and over again – “It’s so bad. It’s just so bad.” After a week I would emerge from the garage and embrace my family. Birds would fly and chirp around us. I would be slightly malnourished, but that’s okay – because a weight will have finally been lifted from my shoulders. I would be able to walk tall and unburdened. This – THIS would be one of the happiest days of my life! And as the sun begins to rise over the Hewlett-Packard headquarters in Palo Alto, California, a small man with a single tear in his eye, lowers the flag to half-mast.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:54:55 +0000
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