I hate technology sometimes...

I have been meaning to write again but my life is really so uneventful that I feel I never have any substance for writing. So when something does finally pop up, I jump on the chance. Usually that thing is just something that annoyed me to the point that I had to get it off my chest. But, whatever works.
So the other day I was on my computer and decided to download yahoo messenger. I figured I havent talked to any of my filipino friends in a while. In the little toolbar that came with the messenger were some little hot buttons like yahoo mail, myspace, and things of that nature. One of them was a "Download Internet Explorer 8" button. In my manly quest to have biggest and best of everything, this button was staring me down everyday I let it just sit there. I finally gave in and decided to download internet explorer 8. Little did i know...
The download went fine up until the point where I had to restart my computer. I restart it and instantly started having problems. When it went to reboot, I had this error message saying something about trying to do something with customizations? I dunno. So I instinctively call my mom who is the know all for any crisis. After an hour on the phone with her trying to get it figured out, I get my desktop to work again.
A couple days later, I go to print something off the internet. It starts printing then all a sudden another error comes up. Something about how some sort of spooler is not working and wont print my stuff. Again, I call mommy. After another hour and a half on the phone with her, I start downloading all these updates. Mind you, our internet makes dial up seem lightning fast. I mean, it is ridiculous how slow this thing is. It takes 20 minutes to watch a 5 minute video on youtube. And its not even the high quality ones. It is always one of those crappy videos where it is super blurry and shaking the whole time. I like to start one downloading and then go clean the oven and change my oil, watch the 2 minutes that have finished, and return to my activities to allow the rest of the video to download. Anyways, so I start downloading all these updates and stuff from microsoft in hopes it will fix my poor little computer. Nope. It is still having an error. So 20 hours of downloading updates later (and multiple help calls to the mother), we figure out it might be a virus. So now I have to do this super intensive virus scan of my computer which will take another 3 hours to do.
Technology can be a wonderful thing. But sometimes, it is extremely difficult to keep a christian tongue when you have computer problems.