GO FIGURE!

I tried Mary's diagnostic test for my computer's sound problem. I unplugged the speaker cable from the computer and plugged it into my Walkman. At first all I got was static. Just when I decided that meant it was the speakers, the static miraculously ended and a beautiful, crisp sound emerged. I was able to turn the sound up and turn it down. Aha! It must be the computer--the sound card, as Mary suggested. Then I unplugged the Walkman and plugged the cable back into the computer so I wouldn't lose it in the rat's nest behind my desk. THEN--Are you ready for this? Here I should do like all those multi-forwarded jokes and have you scroll down . . . keep scrolling . . . scroll a little farther . . . THE SOUND WAS STILL GOOD!!! I could still turn it up and turn it down (especially down). No BLAP, no BOOM-DAH-BOOM--BAH. In short, it is fixed. (For how long, is another matter.) As we used to say in Bensonhurst--"Go figure."