Thoughts while installing Office 2007
Darkly, darkly she kicked the sand. Ice cold weather beat down upon her shoulders as the night sky rang loudly; footprints solemn and alone littered the landscape behind her. Looking slowly, she trod as lightly as the sand allowed, dragging slightly as the surf forgivingly removed traces of her presence. She found the artifact near the third dune. Covered in only a thin layer of sand, she had spotted it atop the second dune. It shown eerily in the moonlight but just enough to stand as an inverted lighthouse in an abandoned sea. Jumping lightly down the second dune, she approached cautiously - the repetitive washing of the sea was as a timepiece, ticking waves of clapping from an unseen audience, and drew her attention to the first time she'd heard mention of the device. Finally standing three feet from the artifact, she noticed a small hum seemingly without source; she recognized immediately that the object, unknown to her save for its location, seemed to be responding to ...