Courney Wells, Butt of the Universes Jokes since 1984
Everyone knows the laptop is sick I suppose. I'm going through family tree withdrawl. I'm doing random relative searches on the SSDI for FUN! For those of you who don't know what that is it is the Social Security Death Index.
In the middle of July when the Lappy experienced Blue Screen of Death, I broke out the Recovery disk, but since I didn't want to erase everything I hunted down my copy of XP to try running the Repair Function, Safe Mode, WGA...
Nothing...
Last Fri. I went over to Tech Services here at the school and they run a diagnostic. I have bad spots on my hard drive and now that I thing about it, I propably always have. I use the following as evidence:
* My Decal Maker software wouldn't run the English Language pack, but would the French. It probably went on a bad spot and wouldn't read.
* The Bond Wizard from the treasury won't update pricing since I updated the software. Again, that file is probably on a bad spot.
* One campaign on Age of Empires won't run.
* InterActual crashes everytime I try to use the menu to watch Hidalgo. Media Player does fine.
SEE A PATTERN??? Little files that don't run. I updated Windows and turned it off to go eat, and it never came back. Seems the updated WINSRV was written on a bad spot.
I was given 2 options:
1 Reformat the disk, lose everything and have the same problem down the road.
2 Replace the hard drive and transfer what files are good if they can be gotten off.
Welllllp.....since I don't need it, need it this semester, best take care of it now and since it's an 80GB, let's upgrade it. I checked online and at Staples and Best Buy. Staples was a fiasco. More on that later. Best Buy had a 160GB with a 3 yr warranty that was perfect for it. I double checked with their tech guy to be sure it would work. It would. I got an item ticket with the stock number, price, and description at 14:57 on Tues. Talked to Mom and she put the money in my checking yesterday since I had a balance of $3.62. I went in at 11:30 this morning and they were SOLD OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Some days it isn't worth shooing the cats off you to get out of bed.
As my Uncle Eddie said "If it wasn't for back luck, you wouldn't have any at all."
There aren't any coming in Fri. and I hope to to be at the scale model show in Sharonville Sat. Wish me luck.
Now for Staples... I stopped in Sunday afternoon since we were there and I wanted to see what they had, so I ran it. Actually it was a slow and deliberate limp, since I missed my bus transfer last Wed. and got to walk the 40 blocks home in the drizzle and picked up a pair of blisters for my trouble.
I get in there and find what I'm looking for, but I want to talk to somebody about upgrading. As I'm looking over the various models, I hear and odd noise and look up...Some simpleton that works there is SKIPPING down the front aisle, holding a container of cheese puffs over his head. He is being chased by TWO female co-workers one my age and one older, in her 30's maybe. My eyes then fall on a fourth employee hanging up merchandise. I catch her eye, point to the sign that says "for more information ask an employee", and motion her over. She looks at me, blinks a few times, and ignores me. They have the hole in my foot to thank for their worthless lives. If I'd been up to it, I'd have beaten them all for worthlessness. I stormed out and several other people did as well in the 20 mins I was there. If the place goes under, it is their fault.
I'm bored out of my mind. The copy of Star Trek Legacy for PC that is an early Christmas gift is mocking me. I actually feel weird doing something and saving it to a jump drive. It's like I'm cheating on the lappy. I'm weird. DEAL WITH IT! Both the Hiddensee and the Soviet figure I'm working on are AWOL. I think I set the container down to help carry in groceries and the cats have done something to it.
My options of what to do are basically:
*Pokemon on Gameboy
*Work on "Trackside Conversations"
*Cross stitch kit of a Carousel Horse started in my jacket pocket
*Work on my scale model website
*Research colors, etc for my missing models for when I find them.
Just suggest something from the list or something else please. I'm double checking my stash inventory for Sat. Like I need to. I know everything on it. SAVE ME!!!