Day in the Life of an Idiot

My computer (who takes its coffee black, since some have asked) seems to have fallen into the "it could be worse," but not exactly 100% solved category. My laptop now has a resident gremlin whom I have named Apostrophe (although it sometimes manifests, not at ALL creepily, as 666). The gremlin's favorite thing to do is to pick a punctuation mark or a number and endlessly repeat it. 

Sometimes.

Sometimes everything is fine. 

So, I am currently limping along with what I have and making back-ups like mad.