Dr J versus Larry Bird

I kept hearing ponging noises in the background... I don't know if it was the new operating system I installed or the worrying symptoms of the onset of ... adult... degenerative... ponging disease. Or something. Not degenerative, of course, as the ponging was getting louder and more persistent with the passing hours.


The sole light in the office was the gentle, almost angelic glow from the cathode ray tube of my monitor. This and my ghostly face dripped down the insides of the windows, which dripped on the outside with a gentle, dirty rain. That was one reason why I was still there. The other reason was I was incredibly stupid. Shockingly so. And, in addition, now slipping into the state in which people hear ponging noises.


The ponging noises had broken me out of my reverie, staring at the computer screen in the darkened office like one of those eye puzzles, where if you stare long enough at the picture a boat will appear out of seeming chaos. I hadn't seen a boat, but at least I was saving my eyes from too much stress -- save a pair of glasses down the road.


Snapping back to the here and now, as opposed to the non-boat-seeing trip I'd been on, I had the distinct impression that the computer wasn't any longer happy with what I'd been doing.


The document I'd been working on, in the application I was working in, was no longer anywhere on my screen. I figured it was time to go.


So I shut down the machine, letting it whir down into sleep, rolled back from my desk, slipped my feet back into my shoes, and stood up. It was a little like getting up from the bar after a few drinks. Only not nearly as fun.


Only things didn't pong at you when you stood up... or follow you down the stairs as you headed out of the building. Which is what was happening to me.


To be continued...



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