Dongle-ing Around

Well, I'm happy to say that words flowed like diarrhea from my ass last night, and again this morning. I had no idea what my column would be about when I went to bed last night, but as a sign that I'm doing exactly what I should be doing, a story happened before breakfast. Since I was out lounging in the morning sun when it happened, I grabbed my notepad and started scribbling.
An hour later I ran into a few wireless issues while transferring the story from laptop to desktop, but thankfully my Colonel is a computer dork and helped me out by, "You can use my dongle if you need to." Of course you know when he said that I thought he was trying to get more of my fantastic action, so he was confused when I said thanks and dropped my pants. Just kidding. But I did laugh and ask for an explanation.

A dongle (which I'm sure everybody in the world but me already knows) is a little device like this picture here that's used to prevent software piracy. Certain programs now can be installed on your computer but not used without the dongle plugged into a port.

Technically, he doesn't possess a real dongle, but some people refer to those little flash drive keychain things as such. He does have something very similar sounding though, and I know exactly what that is.