My world has come to an end...
I'm in a crappy assed mood. My computer crashed.
Last night my computer froze while hibernating and I had to turn it off. This morning I tried to turn the computer on and I got the blank screen of death everytime it started to load Windows. I tried everything. I even called HP. And of course I got someone who barely spoke english essentially reading me the manual. As if I couldn't do that myself. Where do they think I got the phone number to call? Idiots. I'm convinced she was running three calls at once. She kept disappearing in the middle of our conversation. I wasted almost an hour on the phone with her just to have her tell me what I suspected all along. I had to reinstall everything.
Well shit that's just wonderful. I have an external hard drive and I've become lazy. The last time I backed anything up was 6 weeks ago. Yes, I'm an idiot. The whole time the compy's busy resetting I'm kicking myself in the ass about not backing my documents up. Well thank God for small miracles, my documents where all still there. I did a little happy dance. That lasted all of a minute.
I lost all of my software and all of my personal settings. The thing reset everything to factory settings. So now I have icons on my desktop for all my programs, but none of them work and my computer is cluttered with all those stupid trial programs that come pre-installed. I have to go through re-configuring everything. I've had this compy for 4 years. It's become like a favorite pair of shoes. It's worn in and I've finally managed to get everything working just the way I like it. I've customized toolbars, Explorer favorites, Virus settings everything. It's ALL GONE!!!!
So now instead of my computer being a comfortable friend, an extension of myself it's become this annoying evil paperweight. I can't stand it. I've spent the whole damn day fiddling with settings and reinstalling software. I haven't even scratched the surface. I'll be dealing with this for weeks. *head desk* I just want my compy back. Take the documents, just give me back my settings!!!!!!
I'm just so frustrated and sick of dealing with it. I can't even work up enough energy to rant properly!!!
On top of that my roof has a leak. It's the middle of summer in South Texas. We're in the middle of a drought. A burn ban across the county prevented anyone from shooting off fireworks for the 4th of July. I'd finally found a contractor to fix my roof and now all of a sudden "Dolly" decides to dump a ton of rain on us!!! I've got towels and trashbags spread across my couch and I'm constantly dumping out the two trashcans I'm using to catch the rain. My floor is covered in little speckles of sheet rock. This is just not my week!