Like father, like daughter

Jill, official oldest daughter of NewMexiKen, reports:

Our computer died on Wednesday. Well, maybe it didn’t die. But it is seriously ill.

Anyway, I have books due to my evil editor, so I’ve been in a panic.

Byron set up his office laptop for me last night. He hooked it all up and wrote me a long description of how to log in and use it.

I came down this morning and couldn’t get it to work, no matter what I did.

I would turn it on, but I couldn’t get it to do anything once I had it on. I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete and nothing happened. I couldn’t even get the cursor to move, using the mouse.

I called Byron in a panic. “The laptop is freezing up, just like our regular computer was! Maybe the problem is with the line, not the computer.” He told me that was ridiculous, and walked me through two restarts, eventually wondering aloud if perhaps it was a ghost doing this.

Which is when I realized the problem. I was typing and using the mouse for our regular computer, not the laptop.