I have an optical mouse on my computer at work. This is it:



Dear readers, do not be deceived by its harmless appearance. This mouse is demonic.



Let me explain. On Monday, when I started up my machine, the pointer arrow was frozen on the screen and the little red light inside the mouse was not on. I checked the wire, shut down, started up again, and everything was back to normal. Or so I thought. My mouse is now possessed. It is a veritable Ouija mouse: every so often while my hand rests on it, perfectly still, the cursor on the screen will start to drift verrrrry slowly, on its own accord. Or should I say, under the control of spirits and ghoulies. So far it seems to enjoy drifting left and up. It hasn't clicked on anything yet by itself, but I assume this is the next logical step. The funny thing is, when I remove my (motionless) hand, the drifting stops. When I touch the mouse again, the drifting continues.
The next time it happens, I'm going to start recording the letters/images that it comes to rest on, because I really do think it's slowly spelling out a message to me. (Q-U-I-T S-U-R-F-I-N-G T-H-E I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T maybe, or Y-O-U W-I-L-L D-I-E I-F Y-O-U D-O-N-T F-I-N-D A N-E-W J-O-B S-O-O-N.)



On a related note, can anyone recommend a good replacement song to get 'Ouija board, Ouija board' out of my head?