Ebil Trash Pyrate Xi-feng scores!
...and I didn't even have to fire the big guns on my ship, the S.S. Bloody Revenge! (Identify the reference and be wubbled forever more.)
There is only one thing more fun than having to take a C421 exam (on which I'm pretty sure I made at least a 20% on account of being able to label everything in the Roman Forum), and that one thing is taking the C421 exam during your period. w00t. On the upside, due to exams and period, I am now officially allowed to eat whatever crap I want. Lunch was sugar cookies with icing. Dinner will be pigs in a blanket. Unless I swing by the store for fruit and more Coke and visit the sushi bin and change my mind.
Anyway, the trash! Much to my everlasting shock and amazement, the monitor and CPU were both still there when I got home last night. It was dark and cooler, so there were not as many bugs. Unfortunately, the maintenance people had also filled the dumpster with discarded bits of tree, thus ensuring that I would be jabbed and poked repeatedly as I endeavored to claim my prize.
I decided to go for broke and take the monitor too. Since I could reach it without getting into the dumpster, I did. (I was not a little discomfited by the presence of some of the neighbors, who were pulling into their parking spot and seemed to take a mighty long time about it.) Unfortunately, the CPU wasn't as high up on the Pile Of Detritus, and I had to actually climb into the dumpster to get to it.
There's a reason they tell you not to play in or around dumpsters. You can't get back out. Unless, of course, you have a box of kitty litter you can use as a step when you're climbing down. Fortunately, I was able to find one. (Also, some rich fucker threw away a toddler bed, which has got to be worth some $$, but when you're looking for a cheap bed for your little darling, the last thing you want to hear is that the chick who's selling it found it in the trash.)
I managed to push the CPU to where I'd be able to just reach in and get it (I didn't want to risk damaging it on my descent, and also they're rather heavy and I couldn't have gotten out with it--I can carry one, but not climb with it). While I was banging around in the trash, several of the neighbors came. I hope nobody saw me. If they do think I'm a weirdo, well, it's close enough to the truth, and if they think I'm a criminal, well, at least they'll keep their snot-nosed urchins away from me.
Haul: 1 monitor, 1 CPU.
Best-case scenario: They both work, and I have a computer, even if I don't have Internet access (will depend on cost).
Slightly offputting but okay scenario: The CPU works, the monitor doesn't. I already have a monitor, so no skin off my teeth.
Mildly worse scenario: The monitor works, the CPU doesn't, I have Aaron come down and take a look, and either he can't do anything with it or it will cost more than I'm willing to pay. I sell the monitor and chunk the CPU.
Worst-case scenario: Neither of them works. I chunk them both. The only thing I've lost is a positively putrid 30 minutes.
Fortunately, it was laundry day, so my clothes no longer smell like trash.
I'm excited! I can't wait to see if my precious works. (It's sitting in the trunk of my car as we speak.)
There is only one thing more fun than having to take a C421 exam (on which I'm pretty sure I made at least a 20% on account of being able to label everything in the Roman Forum), and that one thing is taking the C421 exam during your period. w00t. On the upside, due to exams and period, I am now officially allowed to eat whatever crap I want. Lunch was sugar cookies with icing. Dinner will be pigs in a blanket. Unless I swing by the store for fruit and more Coke and visit the sushi bin and change my mind.
Anyway, the trash! Much to my everlasting shock and amazement, the monitor and CPU were both still there when I got home last night. It was dark and cooler, so there were not as many bugs. Unfortunately, the maintenance people had also filled the dumpster with discarded bits of tree, thus ensuring that I would be jabbed and poked repeatedly as I endeavored to claim my prize.
I decided to go for broke and take the monitor too. Since I could reach it without getting into the dumpster, I did. (I was not a little discomfited by the presence of some of the neighbors, who were pulling into their parking spot and seemed to take a mighty long time about it.) Unfortunately, the CPU wasn't as high up on the Pile Of Detritus, and I had to actually climb into the dumpster to get to it.
There's a reason they tell you not to play in or around dumpsters. You can't get back out. Unless, of course, you have a box of kitty litter you can use as a step when you're climbing down. Fortunately, I was able to find one. (Also, some rich fucker threw away a toddler bed, which has got to be worth some $$, but when you're looking for a cheap bed for your little darling, the last thing you want to hear is that the chick who's selling it found it in the trash.)
I managed to push the CPU to where I'd be able to just reach in and get it (I didn't want to risk damaging it on my descent, and also they're rather heavy and I couldn't have gotten out with it--I can carry one, but not climb with it). While I was banging around in the trash, several of the neighbors came. I hope nobody saw me. If they do think I'm a weirdo, well, it's close enough to the truth, and if they think I'm a criminal, well, at least they'll keep their snot-nosed urchins away from me.
Haul: 1 monitor, 1 CPU.
Best-case scenario: They both work, and I have a computer, even if I don't have Internet access (will depend on cost).
Slightly offputting but okay scenario: The CPU works, the monitor doesn't. I already have a monitor, so no skin off my teeth.
Mildly worse scenario: The monitor works, the CPU doesn't, I have Aaron come down and take a look, and either he can't do anything with it or it will cost more than I'm willing to pay. I sell the monitor and chunk the CPU.
Worst-case scenario: Neither of them works. I chunk them both. The only thing I've lost is a positively putrid 30 minutes.
Fortunately, it was laundry day, so my clothes no longer smell like trash.
I'm excited! I can't wait to see if my precious works. (It's sitting in the trunk of my car as we speak.)