Adversary, thy name is Hewlett-Packard.
My laptop arrived a day early. Such a wonderful balancing of a bout of insomnia caused by pure-annoyance. I've spent the last three hours removing all the really bothersome and/or useless software that I will never -ever- use that came pre-installed.
Every time I have to go through several "are you sure you want to remove this? We put it on there so it would hog resources and annoy the fuck out of you. Maybe even get you to contact us to give us money to "fix" you computer. Even though it's brand new. We're pricks like that. To the extent that every time you remove one of our programs another will pop up and ask why you did what you did. Work that guilt. You should be ashamed. Don't you know software has feelings? What did it ever do to you? We're gonna lock the computer up for a good 5-or-6 minutes now, Dick. No, you can't even get to the Task Manager now to shut off whatever is causing the hold up. Go tear some more of your hair out. That's the only way to regain control. Prick."
Yeah...
So with another five hours of work or so this thing should be working the way I want it. Then I'll do all the fancy shmancy performance checks and tweaks, install all the apps I want. Then, and only then, I will smile.
In other news, I've been feeling rather lonesome. Mostly because lately it seems that the only people I have available for real conversation are those that I don't care to talk to at length. Not that I don't understand the situation. I'm not blaming anyone. Except myself, of course. Well, the guy who makes my work schedule, too. And then add a condensed summer class to that. Yeah. I just don't have much free time as it is.
And when I say "those I don't care to talk to", I think I mean one person in particular. I'm starting to think he does this shit on purpose. It would make so much more sense if he were. Otherwise, he'd have to be oblivious. But, given that he is human, it's a definite possibility.
I need to get out and visit with people. But I can't. Rather, I am choosing not to do so until I get this class finished with a passing grade (preferably an A). And that's likely the right choice. I've spent enough time focused on enjoying the current moment without much regard to the future or a career.
School is important. I have goals. Educating myself and the resulting piece of paper proving I have done so is one of them. Both are required to achieve other goals I have set for myself.
So it's very much worth it and long over due. I quite enjoy it, too.
I actually caught some free time finally on saturday night and went to visit a friend I haven't talked to in a while nor seen in an even longer while. She's on break from technology, and friends in general, I think. Not sure why. But that basically means I won't see her, ever, unless I go see her at work which is pretty lame compared to hanging out (which had already stopped anyway) but still better than nothing.
She called in sick. Blar. So I went home and slept. Maybe next time, huh? ;p
Every time I have to go through several "are you sure you want to remove this? We put it on there so it would hog resources and annoy the fuck out of you. Maybe even get you to contact us to give us money to "fix" you computer. Even though it's brand new. We're pricks like that. To the extent that every time you remove one of our programs another will pop up and ask why you did what you did. Work that guilt. You should be ashamed. Don't you know software has feelings? What did it ever do to you? We're gonna lock the computer up for a good 5-or-6 minutes now, Dick. No, you can't even get to the Task Manager now to shut off whatever is causing the hold up. Go tear some more of your hair out. That's the only way to regain control. Prick."
Yeah...
So with another five hours of work or so this thing should be working the way I want it. Then I'll do all the fancy shmancy performance checks and tweaks, install all the apps I want. Then, and only then, I will smile.
In other news, I've been feeling rather lonesome. Mostly because lately it seems that the only people I have available for real conversation are those that I don't care to talk to at length. Not that I don't understand the situation. I'm not blaming anyone. Except myself, of course. Well, the guy who makes my work schedule, too. And then add a condensed summer class to that. Yeah. I just don't have much free time as it is.
And when I say "those I don't care to talk to", I think I mean one person in particular. I'm starting to think he does this shit on purpose. It would make so much more sense if he were. Otherwise, he'd have to be oblivious. But, given that he is human, it's a definite possibility.
I need to get out and visit with people. But I can't. Rather, I am choosing not to do so until I get this class finished with a passing grade (preferably an A). And that's likely the right choice. I've spent enough time focused on enjoying the current moment without much regard to the future or a career.
School is important. I have goals. Educating myself and the resulting piece of paper proving I have done so is one of them. Both are required to achieve other goals I have set for myself.
So it's very much worth it and long over due. I quite enjoy it, too.
I actually caught some free time finally on saturday night and went to visit a friend I haven't talked to in a while nor seen in an even longer while. She's on break from technology, and friends in general, I think. Not sure why. But that basically means I won't see her, ever, unless I go see her at work which is pretty lame compared to hanging out (which had already stopped anyway) but still better than nothing.
She called in sick. Blar. So I went home and slept. Maybe next time, huh? ;p