23...and Johnny Five

In my family, it's a requirement that you name pretty much every inanimate object you spend loads of quality time with.  This little goofball practice used to be reserved almost exclusively for cars.

Over the years, one or the other of us has driven Sherman the Wonder Tank, Tootsie, Melinda, Elmo, Sport, Cabernet and many others.

While technology has been subtly seeping into every facet of our lives, more and more things have been acquiring names.  The biggest category?  Computers.

My mom has had scads of computers.  I think I've had three: my original tower, my laptop, and my HP desktop.  The original tower was called something like Sherman the Wonder Tank, but I can't remember the exact name.  My laptop was Stitch, after my favorite Disney cartoon character.  The HP, over time, became Johnny Five.

Y'know...from Short Circuit?

Recently, Johnny Five became ill.  He took my pictures hostage and refused to start up.  It's been a few months since he started having his episodes, and at least a full month since he died for good.

Or so I thought.

After sending Johnny Five over to The Grumps' house to hang out with my momma for a while, he's back up and running, and he didn't even lose any of the information I was so concerned about.

In fact, he came home this past weekend, and I'm typing on him right now.

Welcome back, friend.  No disassemble Johnny Five.