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searchsoleil) wrote2006-06-29 04:55 pm
searchsoleil) wrote2006-06-29 04:55 pm
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WTF ten times over
I am on the laptop again. I wish I could say this is because it is hot and I feel like sitting in my room with the air conditioning on and basking in my own indolence, but that would be a complete and total lie.
My computer is sick. It is on its last legs. I have spent all week cleaning it up and moving important files to the E drive and grieving like no sane person ever would over a computer.
On Saturday, it suddenly picked up this weird habit of freezing up so completely that I had to pull the power source to get it to reboot. At first it only happened when the computer had been on for 6+ hours, but the problem quickly worsened to 3 hours and then to 1 hour, until suddenly it wouldn't boot at all.
We got it looked at and it booted all right, but the shutting down thing didn't go away and started happening every 20 minutes or so. The prognosis was basically, "He's old, there's nothing you can do, you need to let him go."
So then came the yelling and the crying and the negotiating until finally my parents agreed that the only thing to do was to evacuate as quickly as possible and buy a new computer in the meantime.
This was not the only thing to break in my house this week. Our [ancient] dryer finally needed to be replaced, our water heater broke for no reason and something else in the basement sprung a leak that's being fixed tomorrow (incidentally, also when the new computer should come in).
The only relatively bright spot was yesterday when my mother dragged me out of the house to go shopping for summer things. I picked up my summer wardrobe and reading list. I was also surprised at the end with a gift for my high marks in the form of getting to pick out a new boom box system for Yukio. So now I have this sleek black thing in the living room that has radio, CD, iPod, and alarm clock capabilities and these blue lights on it which make it possibly the coolest thing I've owned in a long time (STFU, I am easily pleased) and also quite easy to find in the dark.
Otherwise, this week has been a total wash except for having burnt a CD with the HikaGo manga on it which has kept me calm, reasonably happy, and satisfyingly entertained as I've missed anime download after anime download.
My computer is sick. It is on its last legs. I have spent all week cleaning it up and moving important files to the E drive and grieving like no sane person ever would over a computer.
On Saturday, it suddenly picked up this weird habit of freezing up so completely that I had to pull the power source to get it to reboot. At first it only happened when the computer had been on for 6+ hours, but the problem quickly worsened to 3 hours and then to 1 hour, until suddenly it wouldn't boot at all.
We got it looked at and it booted all right, but the shutting down thing didn't go away and started happening every 20 minutes or so. The prognosis was basically, "He's old, there's nothing you can do, you need to let him go."
So then came the yelling and the crying and the negotiating until finally my parents agreed that the only thing to do was to evacuate as quickly as possible and buy a new computer in the meantime.
This was not the only thing to break in my house this week. Our [ancient] dryer finally needed to be replaced, our water heater broke for no reason and something else in the basement sprung a leak that's being fixed tomorrow (incidentally, also when the new computer should come in).
The only relatively bright spot was yesterday when my mother dragged me out of the house to go shopping for summer things. I picked up my summer wardrobe and reading list. I was also surprised at the end with a gift for my high marks in the form of getting to pick out a new boom box system for Yukio. So now I have this sleek black thing in the living room that has radio, CD, iPod, and alarm clock capabilities and these blue lights on it which make it possibly the coolest thing I've owned in a long time (STFU, I am easily pleased) and also quite easy to find in the dark.
Otherwise, this week has been a total wash except for having burnt a CD with the HikaGo manga on it which has kept me calm, reasonably happy, and satisfyingly entertained as I've missed anime download after anime download.