As you are aware, I’ve been absent for some time from the blog. My plan to live between two families only landing me in the pound. (I made a dog my ‘bitch’ while I was in there!) I’ve been locked in this house ever since the Apes sprung me.

After months of no computer access the Big Hairless Ape finally brought home a new desktop computer. As happy as I was to see this machine, I still felt the Big Hairless Ape needed to be punished for keeping me away for so long.

Since he was so proud of his shiny new Windows 7 machine, I decided to have a little fun.

The first morning the Big Hairless Ape sat down at his new computer he was greeted with the following system message:

"Windows 7 encountered a serious error and has installed Linux."

Yup! I wiped his hard drive and installed Linux. It was so much fun to sit in his chair while he paced around the room yelling at Technical Support.

"How the Hell does this happen?" he barked into the phone. After a short pause he yells, "No! Nobody here installed it! Windows did it itself!" Another pause. "I am NOT crazy!"

I had to crank up the purring a notch to hide my laughter. This is just too much fun to do only once, don’t you think?

Later that day the computer was replaced by the store. Once again the Big Hairless Ape beamed over his new machine. And, once again, he woke up the next day to a surprise.

"Windows 7 encountered a serious error and has installed MS-DOS"

This one had even better results. Not only was the phone call longer and louder, it cost him $55.00 to have Windows 7 reinstalled. Since the warranty doesn’t cover wiping and installing of alternative operating systems, there was a shop charge.

The rest of the week saw these:

"Windows 7 encountered a serious error and has installed OS/2"
"Windows 7 encountered a serious error and has installed AmigaDOS"

And my all-time favourite…

Long story short… That computer now sits in the basement where I sleep. The Big Hairless Ape gave up and bought another one leaving this one abandoned and forgotten. I wasn’t expecting a payoff with this prank, but I’ll take it! Now I have 24 hour internet access!

All I can say is… I’M BACK BABY!!