Good Deeds Don't Pay!

This is sort of a sad post for me but it does contain some humour.

A few weeks ago I found out a co-worker has a defective cd player in her computer. This happened when I brought in a cd that she wanted to listen to. I let her take it for the day and continued on with my work. About a minute later she comes back and tells me it doesn’t play in her player. I thought that was odd so I went to check it out. It turns out the cd player was not installed into her computer…interetsing.

After that encounter, I decided to put the songs onto my iPod, along with other songs I knew she liked, and I would put the songs directly onto her hard drive at work even though it is against company policy. So sometime last week I did just that. I added Great Big Sea, ABBA, and Glass Tiger to my iPod and added it to her computer. She enjoyed it, and I could hear GBS playing all day.

That night I was going to remove the ABBA songs and add ones that I would enjoy. Unfortunately, it was a long day at work so I was too tired to do anything when I got home. Same with the next day. The weeekend came and went without me doing anything about my iPod. Finally Monday rolled around and I decided it was time to switch up the songs. I double clicked on my iTunes icon on my computer so I could pick some songs before I attached my iPod but nothing happened. I clicked again, and again but still nothing happened so I decided to restart my computer. The only problem with this is that my computer didn’t restart.

Now it is Thursday, my computer doesn’t start and I am stuck with ABBA on my iPod. Luckily, I at least have Great Big Sea to keep me sane on my trip to and from work. The lesson I have learned from all of this…good deeds don’t pay! The smile and joy I brought to someone else by doing this unexpected deed does not make up for the pain I am feeling now.

I still need to figure out what is wrong with my computer though because I have a lot of pictures on my hard drive that I had not had a chance to save to disk yet. There are also some excel files that are dear to me that I would like back, but those are not life and death.