Excuses? You mean you actually need excuses not to write? Excuses that work? All those I've tried have never worked with my betas.
But here's the list of the top 10 recent ones:
1) My computer doesn't work.
2) My computer still doesn't work.
3) Oh, look, my computer isn't working properly...
4) How come I found reboot.exe in there? Wait, there's also rereboot.exe, rebootsRus.exe, yayareboot.exe, howaboutareboot.exe, ohcoolanotherreboot.exe, weirditrebooted.exe...
5) What do you mean, "general failure"?!?
6) My screen is black, is that normal?
7) I kind of lost the 4 paras that took ages to draft in the last reboot.
8) I'm too busy throwing the computer out the window (hey, that gives El the SPLAT she's been pining for).
9) Writing longhand is tedious.
10) Where's my good old laptop?
Kaethel