Volition

Include:

1. Have a power blackout for ~4 hours
2. Have an ailing power supply in your household router (a rather essential bit of networking hardware) that finally fails because of said blackout
3. Have said failed power supply in an old-style AT form-factor case, making it nigh-impossible to remove without removing everything else from the case first, but mange to remove it anyway
4. Replace with functioning power supply, then spend 30 minutes trying to plug in the power-on indicator light, get a 240-volt shock because the light is right next to the switch and you have loosened the insulation on the switch trying to plug the light back in
5. Fail to plug light back in due to sudden dizziness, loss of coordination, heart fluctuations
6. Get everything else working again, have kitchen now smelling like magic smoke because the new power supply reeks of it and unlike the one that just died has a working fan to pump the acrid smell out
7. Note that because of the magic smoke, the new power-supply is probably nearly dead, too
8. Post about the experience on your blog so people can laugh at you

Stupid dumb computer. I think these holidays I will actually replace the damm machine with the net4801 I bought at the start of the year -- which I bought because I knew the router's power supply was on its way out...