for months i have been complaining about how much my computer here at work sucks, and for months everyone has just laughed at me. it was really quite discouraging.
well yesterday i finally had the last laugh, as the c partition of my hard drive completely died, or, as i described it to the help desk person: “my hard drive is dying…yes, i’m sure…how do i know?…well, my computer won’t boot and says it can’t read the c drive…and because it’s making that horrible scratchy ‘i’m dying’ sound!!”
sigh. anyway, the help desk sent the service ticket to a guy downstairs, who had somebody else bring me a “new” computer. i say “new” because it’s not really new, it’s just another computer with a working hard drive. but it’s still an improvement because the processor is a bit faster and it thankfully runs windows 2000 and not crappy windows 98.
and in another stroke of luck, it was only the c partition that died and all my gigs of data on the d drive (the important stuff that would take me days to reproduce) were salvageable. so in the end, it actually worked out quite well. i lost 4 hours of work, but in return i got a “new” computer that runs much more efficiently…and i didn’t lose any data. woohoo.
this week has gone by really quickly. tonight we have a yuri’s night meeting, which sucks, but since yuri’s night is saturday, this is the last meeting, which is very good. i will be really glad when it’s over. and that’s all i have to say ’bout that. yeah.
i made two new cds last night to listen to at work. yay.
(4:01 p.m.)
after years, it still surprises me how strongly i get tied up in my friends, and how strongly they affect me even from far away.
