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hosed computer! sigh.
Well, uh.
I'm sitting here watching the greatest Japanese movie ever made (Smile: Seiya no Kiseki), which would be awesome if not for the fact that my laptop is ridiculously hosed and I may have infact hosed it worse today. I'm not even sure I'll manage to finish writing this entry in notepad before my computer bluescreens again. (It's still more comfortable to write it on the big laptop than on the mini-HP even if the mini-HP is stable and this is not.)
Basically, after getting fed up with the slowness and the bluescreens and all the other hatred towards Vista, I ended up backing up my laptop this morning, and then I tried to make a recovery disk, only the retarded thing sat there for an hour preparing it, THEN told me "you need 3 DVDs or 16 CDs to make a recovery disk", and so rather than do that, I just said fuck it, got out my old windows XP disk, and formatted the fucking thing and installed XP on it.
This resulted in a few interesting things, namely that I don't have drivers for a whole bunch of the stuff here, so my computer doesn't believe it even has any sound devices in it at all, among other things, because I was an idiot and didn't check all this stuff before the wipe. Oh well. Hell, I had to convince the thing it had an ethernet card at all in order to put in the Emobile thingy and try to connect to the internet just to activate Windows. Hooray. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the right drivers, and worse, if I connect to the internet with the Emobile thingy, Windows Explorer keeps dying on me and/or the computer keeps bluescreening. Ugh. (On the other hand, it's been up and stable and absolutely fine for the last 40-50 minutes without internet as I've been typing this and mostly watching the movie.)
I dunno. It's interesting enough to play with a bit, but I have a feeling the laptop's days are numbered and I'll have to get a new computer somehow (don't think I can survive on just the mini-HP for 5 months, really).
I feel kind of like a laptop really ought to last at least 2 years, though perhaps not when it's one's primary computer and gets abused fairly hard?
Anyway, other than doing shit with this stupid computer all day... well, I was home doing that until around 7pm, and then I went to Ikebukuro to take a break. Got kaitensushi for dinner at the 136-yen place, which was great. Went to St Tropez after that and found out that Block People is gone, which is not great :( Played some Pop'n both there and at Club Sega, though at CS it ate my 100-yen coin and I had to call over an attendant to deal with it. I kinda went into the other arcades hoping that maybe Block People just moved down the block, so to speak, but no. Ugh... wonder if it's still at Odaiba or not, I really wanted to show it to people. :(
On the other hand, I went to Book-Off, and after searching for a copy of Smile for like a month back before I left Japan, I went there, looked in the DVDs, and... there was one. WTF. I snapped it up immediately. Hooray! It was really great to watch it again tonight (yeah -- in the time it took me to write this, I finished watching the movie).
As for Sunday, I barely did anything at all either. I went to Kawaguchi for lunch, to Coco Ichibanya. Apparently they had "Grandmother Curry" again this year, and the last day was Feb 28th, so lucky me, I got to eat it on the last day! It was really perfect for a cold day though. After that I wandered to what used to be a great arcade by the station, which is now a kinda crappy arcade. Apparently they need 3 floors of pachinko instead of 2, so the arcade got moved from the 3rd floor to the 4th floor, and rather than clearing the 4th floor of medal games, they just cleared half of it and so crammed the entire arcade into that space. Yuck. And Daiso in that building went out of business. Sad. Then again, I have very little reason to go to Kawaguchi at all anymore anyway, so no big deal.
But other than that I spent most of Sunday talking online and playing Puzzle Pirates (there was a familiar tournament and a bunch of CI runs, I got carried away), which is part of how I realized my computer was royally and truly sucking.
Anyway, gonna try connecting and posting this and then going to sleep. I'll screw with the computer more tomorrow, in theory.
I'm sitting here watching the greatest Japanese movie ever made (Smile: Seiya no Kiseki), which would be awesome if not for the fact that my laptop is ridiculously hosed and I may have infact hosed it worse today. I'm not even sure I'll manage to finish writing this entry in notepad before my computer bluescreens again. (It's still more comfortable to write it on the big laptop than on the mini-HP even if the mini-HP is stable and this is not.)
Basically, after getting fed up with the slowness and the bluescreens and all the other hatred towards Vista, I ended up backing up my laptop this morning, and then I tried to make a recovery disk, only the retarded thing sat there for an hour preparing it, THEN told me "you need 3 DVDs or 16 CDs to make a recovery disk", and so rather than do that, I just said fuck it, got out my old windows XP disk, and formatted the fucking thing and installed XP on it.
This resulted in a few interesting things, namely that I don't have drivers for a whole bunch of the stuff here, so my computer doesn't believe it even has any sound devices in it at all, among other things, because I was an idiot and didn't check all this stuff before the wipe. Oh well. Hell, I had to convince the thing it had an ethernet card at all in order to put in the Emobile thingy and try to connect to the internet just to activate Windows. Hooray. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the right drivers, and worse, if I connect to the internet with the Emobile thingy, Windows Explorer keeps dying on me and/or the computer keeps bluescreening. Ugh. (On the other hand, it's been up and stable and absolutely fine for the last 40-50 minutes without internet as I've been typing this and mostly watching the movie.)
I dunno. It's interesting enough to play with a bit, but I have a feeling the laptop's days are numbered and I'll have to get a new computer somehow (don't think I can survive on just the mini-HP for 5 months, really).
I feel kind of like a laptop really ought to last at least 2 years, though perhaps not when it's one's primary computer and gets abused fairly hard?
Anyway, other than doing shit with this stupid computer all day... well, I was home doing that until around 7pm, and then I went to Ikebukuro to take a break. Got kaitensushi for dinner at the 136-yen place, which was great. Went to St Tropez after that and found out that Block People is gone, which is not great :( Played some Pop'n both there and at Club Sega, though at CS it ate my 100-yen coin and I had to call over an attendant to deal with it. I kinda went into the other arcades hoping that maybe Block People just moved down the block, so to speak, but no. Ugh... wonder if it's still at Odaiba or not, I really wanted to show it to people. :(
On the other hand, I went to Book-Off, and after searching for a copy of Smile for like a month back before I left Japan, I went there, looked in the DVDs, and... there was one. WTF. I snapped it up immediately. Hooray! It was really great to watch it again tonight (yeah -- in the time it took me to write this, I finished watching the movie).
As for Sunday, I barely did anything at all either. I went to Kawaguchi for lunch, to Coco Ichibanya. Apparently they had "Grandmother Curry" again this year, and the last day was Feb 28th, so lucky me, I got to eat it on the last day! It was really perfect for a cold day though. After that I wandered to what used to be a great arcade by the station, which is now a kinda crappy arcade. Apparently they need 3 floors of pachinko instead of 2, so the arcade got moved from the 3rd floor to the 4th floor, and rather than clearing the 4th floor of medal games, they just cleared half of it and so crammed the entire arcade into that space. Yuck. And Daiso in that building went out of business. Sad. Then again, I have very little reason to go to Kawaguchi at all anymore anyway, so no big deal.
But other than that I spent most of Sunday talking online and playing Puzzle Pirates (there was a familiar tournament and a bunch of CI runs, I got carried away), which is part of how I realized my computer was royally and truly sucking.
Anyway, gonna try connecting and posting this and then going to sleep. I'll screw with the computer more tomorrow, in theory.
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You will have to let me know where this kaitensushi place is when I am over. If there's one thing I love more than sushi it's cheap sushi (provided it is unspoiled).
Good luck to you on the computer front. Stay calm.