Humpty Dumpty

The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg and in my case it refers to an aging laptop computer.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, (on my desk)
Humptyi Dumpty had a great fall; (blue screen blues)
Threescore men and threescore more, (Dell technical support)
Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before. (the more Dell helped the worse it got!)

So…I finally decided to buy a new egg (err laptop).  The purchase was easy, delivery was prompt and then the process bogged down. “Humpty” sat on the desk in various “patches” (external hard drive, files scattered all over….like a shattered egg shell).

What to do?

I really needed someone to come and take a look at “Humpty” and put him back together again. Well Dell didn’t offer that service, a nationally advertised service (they drive around in little funny cars) failed twice to show up! So…I went with a local technician who showed up and carefully looked at poor “Humpty” and declared he would take all of “Humpty’s” parts and pieces and reassemble them into the new shell (laptop).

And so he did…the scattered pieces of shell were reassembled into one smooth egg (laptop) and “Humpty” sits contentedly on my desk, ready to resume our cyber life of bit’s an bytes.