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My laptop hates me
Oct. 31st, 2005 01:39 amToday was Sunday. I had thought of going to IKEA to get a new wardrobe/dresser, but then the carp bake-off happened on PP (sigh, I really screwed up the second 3 leagues and only got 27 points, the winners were all in the 28-29 range), and my laptop had blue-screened anyway so I was trying to figure out how to fix it. By the time I managed to finish the carp bakeoff and play with the laptop in safe mode a bit and all, it was almost time to go to volleyball, so I gave up and just worked on cleaning the apartment for a little while.
Went to volleyball. There were only 10 people there at the most, so we had a lot of teams of 4 and 5. It was good. Buckley managed to hit the ball into the clock on the wall and knock it down and shatter it. I quipped, "Well, that's ONE way to deal with Daylight Savings Time!" Also, the bossy guy I've mentioned, I played on his team all day, and he "advised" a lot of other people but didn't say a word to me, although we did exchange a bunch of "nice set" and "nice hit" comments and the like. Maybe he's still scared of me.
Oren and I went to get dinner at Taste of India and I burned my tongue on the chai. Argh. Then he came over and took a look at my unhappy laptop and he seems to think the problem is the connection to the hard drive (my laptop was blue screening with kernel panics), since it wouldn't boot when it was on the chair but when Oren picked it up it suddenly worked, and when I placed it on a level surface, it never stopped working. Who knows? I copied off as many of my files as I think were relevant, and I'm going to call HP tomorrow and see if they feel like fixing the thing. I wonder if I should continue to be lazy in replacing my desktop or not. I mean, it's only 4-5 years old, but I think PP really took a toll on it, as did moving it a few times, and the two hard drive failures. I want to get a new monitor sometime anyway. We'll see.
I'm a big dork and just wrote a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey about Paul DePodesta getting fired. I couldn't help it. I was trying to figure out how else to capture the "Computer geek gets canned as Dodgers GM" angle.
Went to volleyball. There were only 10 people there at the most, so we had a lot of teams of 4 and 5. It was good. Buckley managed to hit the ball into the clock on the wall and knock it down and shatter it. I quipped, "Well, that's ONE way to deal with Daylight Savings Time!" Also, the bossy guy I've mentioned, I played on his team all day, and he "advised" a lot of other people but didn't say a word to me, although we did exchange a bunch of "nice set" and "nice hit" comments and the like. Maybe he's still scared of me.
Oren and I went to get dinner at Taste of India and I burned my tongue on the chai. Argh. Then he came over and took a look at my unhappy laptop and he seems to think the problem is the connection to the hard drive (my laptop was blue screening with kernel panics), since it wouldn't boot when it was on the chair but when Oren picked it up it suddenly worked, and when I placed it on a level surface, it never stopped working. Who knows? I copied off as many of my files as I think were relevant, and I'm going to call HP tomorrow and see if they feel like fixing the thing. I wonder if I should continue to be lazy in replacing my desktop or not. I mean, it's only 4-5 years old, but I think PP really took a toll on it, as did moving it a few times, and the two hard drive failures. I want to get a new monitor sometime anyway. We'll see.
I'm a big dork and just wrote a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey about Paul DePodesta getting fired. I couldn't help it. I was trying to figure out how else to capture the "Computer geek gets canned as Dodgers GM" angle.
