There is a phenomenon some people believe in called (SLI), people who are subject to this condition are called SLIders. Essentially it says that some people transmit special wave lengths that causes light bulbs and in some cases other electronic devices to self-destruct as they walk by or touch them.

I don't believe I suffer from SLI, however, I do believe that I have quite possibly the worst luck with electronics. Julie, of course, fully believes I am secretly destroying these things when she's not looking.

Let's look at some facts: I have never had a car that the radiator didn't go out or something associated with radiator didn't fail. Seriously, since my first car when I was 16, every single radiator, water pump, or cooling fan, has at some point failed. For example, last weekend Julie, Jaiden and I were driving to Cedar Point. At some point in the middle of nowhere on the toll way BOOM!! The water pump on the car fails, followed by a steam and coolant mess all over the side of the Indiana Toll Road. However we did get to stay at the ultra-luxurious Motel 8 in Angola, IN and eat at the Bennigans there (yum!). Who needs Cedar Point?

Also within the past year the following things have broken on me (not by me dropping them, just going out):

One GPS Unit

One PDA (PocketPC)

 Two Cell Phones

One XM car radio tuner

One DVD Player

One Karaoke Machine

One TV

One MP3 Player

Four Flashlights

One Answering Machine

One Answering Machine Handset

One Digital Camera

One Computer Monitor

One Color Printer

One Cable Modem

One DishNetwork DVR Unit

Anyway, so this brings me to last night. After an evening of high culture (we went and watched Snakes on a Plane), we had settled in to our beds. I had gone down stairs to grab something out of the spare bedroom, when I walked into the spare room I smelled and observed smoke. At first I wasn't able to locate the source of the smoke, worried that there was a building internal wiring fire, I called the fire department. They brought in all kinds of fancy heat sensing equipment, only to find that the computer's power source had decided to set it self on fire.

We can add to Andy's List'O'Destruction:

One Dell Desktop PC

So we had like 20 firemen in the house for my computer. If it wasn't for the fact that I needed to get something from downstairs my house would have been toast.

Electronic things hate me.