Crazy Train. All Aboard!

I think my computer is training me to be crazy. I heard somewhere that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting to get a different result. My computer has a fingerprint reader that has to scan my finger before it will come on. I slide my finger over it and it lets out an error tone. I scan and error tone, scan error tone, over and over. It gets to the point where I am focusing on my finger like I am trying to split atoms – attempting to gauge the right angle and speed of swiping. Sometimes it feels like it would be easier to learn how to build a new computer from scratch than to just get this one started. Even though this never works I think that maybe my fingers might be dirty; so I wash them until I am sure they must be glowing a bright pink, and still nothing. I turn lights on in the room, and I turn them off. I stand up and try it, and I sit down. The big problem is that I can’t remember my password to just type it in so I have to swipe my finger. Swiping, swiping, swiping – and then just before I give up it dings and come on, and I sit there with glowing pink fingers and pavlovian slobber running down my chin thinking how smart I am to get it to work.