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Computer lingo guide

|Log on – Adding a log to your wood stoveLog off – Don’t add a log to your wood stoveMonitor – Keep an eye on the wood stoveMegahertz – When a big log drops on your bare foot in the morningFloppy disk – What you get from piling too much wood into your wood stoveRam – The hydraulic machine that makes the woodsplitter workDrive – Getting home during most of the winter to your wood stoveHard drive – Trying to get home during a heavy snow stormPrompt – What you wish the mail was during the snow seasonEnter – Come on inWindows – What you must shut when the temperature hits 10 belowScreen – What is a must during black fly seasonChip – What you munch during a football gamesMicrochip – What’s left in the bag when the normal chips are goneModem – What you did to your fields last JulyDot Matrix – Eino Matrix’s wifeLaptop – Where the grandkids sitKeyboard – Where you’re supposed to put the keys so the wife can find themSoftware – Plastic picnic utensilsMouse – What leaves those little turds in the cupboardMainframe – The part of the house that holds up the roofPort – Where the commercial fishing boats dockRandom Access Memory – When you can’t remember how much you spent on the new deer rifle when wife asks about it

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