How it started

I’ve decided to start sharing some episodes that happened to me as an IT technician.

It all began with a request from a very dear friend of mine to take a look at some computers at a stationery store near my house.

This stationery shop had an internet point that had become a haven for all things evil—hell itself—and every virus AVG could possibly detect… Not to mention the spider web/Gordian knot/death trap that was their cable system. That’s where I started, by getting my hands on that setup (I’m not calling it a horror only because, after reading Lovecraft, I know it could have been worse—even if it came close…) and offering on-call tech support.

From this experience came the stories in the series What Did You Just Do, Sorry? (now called Horror stories), an irregularly scheduled column depending on what happens to me.

Personally, I hope it doesn’t happen often—but I know from experience that Murphy ↗ is always lurking, in pleasant company with the FuckUp Fairy ↗ .

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