Laptop (catastrophic) fail
I've been having laptop problems for a few days. After spending seven or eight hours on Friday night trying to fix it, it finally choked and died on me. Well, more like EXPLODED and died, judging from the little mini-crater of brown gunk on the video card.
I backed up most of my files a few days ago, so thankfully I didn't lose TOO much in the crash. It's just going to be a pain to get a new one, since there's only two sites I can find that sell English laptops within Japan. Neither has much selection, and both seem really expensive for so-so laptops. I might just do it the hard way and order one from Canada or the U.S., and have it mailed here. If neither option is going to be particularly cheap, I might as well get a laptop I WANT rather than settling for one that's more convenient to order.
Looks like my netbook was the best purchase I could have possibly made last summer. This weekend would have been a million times more stressful without having a way to email people asking for advice, call home, and start computer-hunting. (Also, MozBackup? Totally works. Saved my entire email archive from my old computer, and popped it on this one just like that.)
As it I won't be spending enough money this week, I bought House of the Dead: Overkill to cheer myself up yesterday. I'm only one mission in, but it is already the most hilarious campy, zombie-shooting, exploitation-film-parodying game I've ever played. Even the intro had me laughing my ass off. Stress relief is good right about now, and shooting zombies will do nicely.
I backed up most of my files a few days ago, so thankfully I didn't lose TOO much in the crash. It's just going to be a pain to get a new one, since there's only two sites I can find that sell English laptops within Japan. Neither has much selection, and both seem really expensive for so-so laptops. I might just do it the hard way and order one from Canada or the U.S., and have it mailed here. If neither option is going to be particularly cheap, I might as well get a laptop I WANT rather than settling for one that's more convenient to order.
Looks like my netbook was the best purchase I could have possibly made last summer. This weekend would have been a million times more stressful without having a way to email people asking for advice, call home, and start computer-hunting. (Also, MozBackup? Totally works. Saved my entire email archive from my old computer, and popped it on this one just like that.)
As it I won't be spending enough money this week, I bought House of the Dead: Overkill to cheer myself up yesterday. I'm only one mission in, but it is already the most hilarious campy, zombie-shooting, exploitation-film-parodying game I've ever played. Even the intro had me laughing my ass off. Stress relief is good right about now, and shooting zombies will do nicely.