Those @#$%&* Computers

"Ladies, if a man says he will fix it, he will. There is no need to remind him every 6 months about it."

"NASA's robot Curiosity landed on Mars. Early pictures show no signs of ESPN, beer, or porn. This makes it very clear that men are not from Mars."

Okay, that's all the men bashing for today. So, let's turn to taxes, w2's, zombies and those @#$%&* computers.

Tax time is either one to which you look forward or try to hide under the covers.

We Florida residents are fortunate as we have no State income taxes and very forgiving real estate taxes due to the Homestead Act.

So, some of us actually do receive a nice tax gift at tax time. Some do not.

In Montana - well at least in the town of Kalispell - Public School employees
also received a suprise - but it wasn't a tax rebate. When electronic W-2s  were sent to them via e-mail they showed wages at quadruple the right amounts.

Business clerk Gwyn Anderson blamed new software and improper instructions from the vendor.

Who did we blame for our mistakes before the advent of computers?

To be honest the folks in Montana seem to have become the focus of more serious issues.

We just discovered via The USA Today there was a place in Montana called "Town" - suggesting a lack of real imagination by the founders but perhaps making it easier for  non-residents who got lost and stumbled upon a sign at a 3 way crossing.

Having lived on Avenue F in a Pittsburgh suburb I can empathize. One reached Avenue F via Avenue K and Avenue L - or could take the longer route of Avenue B and A. Same problem - no imagination.

My brothers and I continue our petition to change the name of Avenue F to Sullivan Way.

Anyway, the "Town" residents  also received a surprise - particularly those who were tuned into TV station KRTV - a Great Falls affiliate and it's CW station this past Monday.

The Emergency Alert System interrupted the regular programming with news of a zombie apocalypse. The station reported that "dead bodies are rising from their graves" in several Montana counties.

The alert continued by saying the bodies were "attacking the living" and warned people not to "approach or apprehend these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."

The Montana Television Network claimed it was the work of hackers who broke into the Emergency Alert System.

But, you and I know it was those @#$%&* computers who were really to blame.