Life in 2083

Yesterday I was sitting here, minding my own business, chattering away with friends and doing everything in my power to avoid any actual homework, when an outlook notice popped up: “you have 62 reminders”. This struck me as a little strange, since there was just no way that I had 62 things happening in the next week.

I looked at the list and saw that everything listed was “over three weeks overdue”, including a few things that hadn’t happened yet. I glanced down at the corner of the screen and saw the reason for these untimely reminders:

I reset the time and clicked dismiss, only to be told, 15 minutes later, that I had again delved 76 years into the future. After this happening twice more I gave up on resetting the clock however I soon found that programs started behaving strangely in the future. My internet browser kept stopping me every time I tried to sign into a site saying “the security certificate expired on the 15th May, 2008”; MSN wouldn’t log in at all; Outlook kept throwing up reminders and asking if I would like to archive old items; Windows media player wouldn’t open.

Maybe this is just a brain fart on the part of my laptop? Maybe it’s a virus? Maybe it’s fallen into a wormhole? Maybe I’ve fallen into a wormhole and I’m really 99 but because of the shock I still see 23 year old hands typing in front of me?

Strange huh?