Laugh or cry? I'm thinking "cry", but let's see how much trouble I get into for bungling the A/V setup for the company-wide meeting today. GG worst day of my professional career.

p.s. You suck, God.

The new motherboard worked! Thank fucking God.

Also, my boss told me he finished my review and I can expect to see my raise, plus retroactive pay, in my next paycheck.

/party

Tonight I try mobo #3 from ASUS. The processor on #2 overheating was definitely the cause of the random shutdowns, but memory access died the day after I figured that out and their tech support declared the board dead... again. I'd say there are equal chances of the new one working to me breaking it into small pieces with a hammer, sowing them in ( Read more... )

Good party donblay! (Did you know he made the turkey/bacon sandwiches?)

After everything, I am firmly convinced that God despises me and wishes ill of me. I'm still laughing manically on the inside from the extreme irony of everything that had happened by the time I left. Oy.

Insane addicting song: http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf

Note that by listening to this, you will probably forfeit your soul. To me, haha!

My coffee tastes strongly of soap. No joke. This may be another of "those" weeks...

Okay, so another night of labor down the hole, my gaming PC still won't boot. I flashed the BIOS to latest and swapped a whole bunch of different hardware, but the machine still shuts off in the middle of doing pretty much anything - installing any operating system, and new discovery, even running Memtest86. With a new stolen IDE cable, now I can ( Read more... )

Happy Belated Earth Day! (It's vaguely related. Sort of. Maybe not so much.)

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164

Vaguely on topic, a different Captain Planet parody. Because I feel like it. (Old but good.)

Impulse buys: some people buy candy bars while waiting in line. I buy this.

The sad part is that I'm a bad geek for not owning one sooner.

Things Eric wanted to do this weekend:
-Sleep a whole lot
-Not leave the apartment
-Play lots of video games

Things Eric did this weekend:
-Went to coworker's house Friday night
-Went to Steph's and walked around most of Somerville/Cambridge on foot Saturday
-Drove straight to Maine and hung out with mostly strangers Sunday

/collapse