Demonic Computers and Praying Cars

True story. My computer at work made a grinding noise, and applications were slow to open.  I put up with this for months without being able to figure out what was going on, but finally put the effort into watching the Task Manager as I worked and discovered that something called alt.daemon was gobbling up over 90% of the CPUs (whatever those are!).

At the Royal Academy this would have been a big deal, I’m sure.  At my workplace, tech services just came down to my office and removed the demon, with no bell, book, or candle.  But I know this event will appear in some upcoming Osyth story.  I even have the scenario in mind…

Here’s the one I can’t explain, though.  I had an old ’92 Geo for 17 years, during which time it went through about 4 radios and 3 batteries.  Every time the radio was disconnected from the battery, or the battery went dead, this car would re-set all the radio buttons to Christian stations.

At first I thought one of the mechanics I took it to was evangelizing me, but nope: it did the same thing if the battery went dead in my garage.  Again, this would be a lot easier to explain if it happened in Osyth. Perhaps my first frivolous act of spring break will be to send an account of it in to Car Talk and see what they have to say about it.