A Death in the Family by Trevor Plumbly

Not With a Bang! Not even with a whimper, but with more of a strangled gurgle, the old girl (excuse the feminine) shuffled off this electronic coil. By today’s standard, the Dell computer was a fossil, but for the last four years, she had absorbed all my outpourings without the complaint and criticism one occasionally receives from human contact on matters emotional, political or judicial. My first concern was that she might take all those personal goodies with her when she left for wherever dead computers go. But no! I was informed… Read More