Hrmph.
The good news: I have Taliesin back! The so-called "system error" that Best Buy was getting was, as I suspected, the one from the broken drivers from my wireless card, because Microsoft fucked up the coding on SP3 (big fucking surprise) and it ate the wireless card. So, I have Taliesin back, everything runs nicely, and all of my data is intact. hurrah.
I won't be on Imagine until I get a new vid card, though. The onboard on Taliesin won't handle it, and being as I am basically completely unfamiliar with hardware, it'll have to wait until Mike has some free time to explain it to me.
I was going to start the process of backing up all of Taliesin's data tonight so that I could reformat him and reinstall everything, and just get a nice clean start sans the wireless card, but it seems that the spool of DVDs that I was absolutely certain I owned has gone AWOL. As, it seems, has the spool of CDs that I was also certain I owned. Oh well. It's not like they're expenisve; I'll pick some up the next time I'm, uh, anywhere since it seems I can buy those things anywhere now.
In other news, while I was kicking around at Best Buy waiting for Mike, I gave in to temptation and purchased a copy of Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I have yet to actually try to play it, because Persona is still eating me. But I have it.
I really can't believe it's almost time to go home for Christmas. Where did December go? For that matter, where did November go? Oh, right, to Kain. Well.
I have to write my Yuletide fic. It would help if I had an idea for it. Any kind of idea. At all. *meeps in a panicked fashion* Oh well, 3 days till deadline, that's definitely 2 days too many, right? Right??
(I hate my procrastinating brain some days.)
P4 continues to own me. (July something? 20th?) What else is new.
I guess since I can't work on Taliesin, I'll go to bed.
I missed having a proper desk chair and keyboard. Laptop on the couch is not good for my spine or my hands.
Babble. Time for sleep now.
I won't be on Imagine until I get a new vid card, though. The onboard on Taliesin won't handle it, and being as I am basically completely unfamiliar with hardware, it'll have to wait until Mike has some free time to explain it to me.
I was going to start the process of backing up all of Taliesin's data tonight so that I could reformat him and reinstall everything, and just get a nice clean start sans the wireless card, but it seems that the spool of DVDs that I was absolutely certain I owned has gone AWOL. As, it seems, has the spool of CDs that I was also certain I owned. Oh well. It's not like they're expenisve; I'll pick some up the next time I'm, uh, anywhere since it seems I can buy those things anywhere now.
In other news, while I was kicking around at Best Buy waiting for Mike, I gave in to temptation and purchased a copy of Professor Layton and the Curious Village. I have yet to actually try to play it, because Persona is still eating me. But I have it.
I really can't believe it's almost time to go home for Christmas. Where did December go? For that matter, where did November go? Oh, right, to Kain. Well.
I have to write my Yuletide fic. It would help if I had an idea for it. Any kind of idea. At all. *meeps in a panicked fashion* Oh well, 3 days till deadline, that's definitely 2 days too many, right? Right??
(I hate my procrastinating brain some days.)
P4 continues to own me. (July something? 20th?) What else is new.
I guess since I can't work on Taliesin, I'll go to bed.
I missed having a proper desk chair and keyboard. Laptop on the couch is not good for my spine or my hands.
Babble. Time for sleep now.