I is genius

So a few weeks ago, my work computer started randomly crapping out a few times a day. The mouse would freeze, and the only way I could fix it was to shut down and restart the computer. Then it would work fine for awhile, until it froze again. I had the IT guys come check out the computer, and after taking apart the docking station for the laptop and trying a few other things, they had no idea what the problem was. freezing for whatever reason seemed to happen when I was on the internets, so I wondered if there was some sort of RAM problem. It kept happening, so their solution was that I probably needed a new laptop. The one I've been using was the one I was given when I started in January 2006, and I had the oldest laptop of any attorney on my team. (Now, this is because everyone else's laptops have crapped out and been replaced in the last year, but still. Mine was ancient compared to the others apparently.) They had some trouble forcing through this concept with firm HQ, but ultimately last week a pretty new fancy laptop arrived from Dell.

The mouse thing kept on happening even with the new computer. I was so happy to have a new laptop that I was scared to tell them, worried I would have this shiny new toy taken away and the old clunker of a laptop with its other myriad issues would return. So for the last week, 4 or 5 times a day, I've had to shut down my computer and reboot when the mouse froze.

Just now, after already having to do it 3 times today and it's only noon, I devised what I think was a solution. I unhooked the mouse from the docking station and plugged it directly into one of the USB ports on the computer. So far, so good. If the fix for this whole ordeal was just this one simple change, I ain't telling a soul.

Now I have to figure how to quietly break my blackberry so I can get one of the newer models of that, too.