Albatross (a1batross) wrote, @ 2008-08-13 09:53:00

Everything breaks


Man. The back-to-work blues had me in its grips yesterday, and so did some kind of karmic biorhythm. I slogged through the day in a blue funk, and got nothing done at work due to pointless distractions by idiots whose hair was on fire. My regular bike ride was carried out in a distracted funk, and at night every computer in the house broke.

It started when my spouse opened a spam e-mail and infected her computer with a virus. I extracted the virus, but the process damaged the operating system and I can't find my OS disk to fix it. Every fifteen minutes or so it BSOD's and continues cycling through BSOD screens and back to the O/S until it's shut down. Then her Flash audio driver failed, so she can't watch YouTube with Internet Explorer or Firefox. Interestingly, she can still do so using Safari.

In the midst of that, the XBox 360 started displaying the fatal Red Ring of Death, meaning that despite drastic efforts to prevent overheating the CPU chip finally developed a microscopic crack in one of its input lines.

Yesterday was pretty sucky.

There were a couple of positive notes. I did GO on the bike ride, so I got some exercise even if I was in a blue funk.

I managed to visit the doctor for a cholesterol test and pick up my cholesterol pills at the pharmacy just as I ran out at home. That was a tricky logistical stunt to pull off, but I managed it.

I also, finally, at about 10:30 p.m., got a minute or two to play with my new digital photo frame, and that was really exciting. Very rarely does one come across a device that does exactly what you'd want it to do if you thought about it. So as I wondered about the features of the new picture frame, they emerged on display: clock and calendar function, music and video functions, and integrated musical slideshow. I loaded it up with some recent trip photos and my best-of gallery and brought it to work today. I even managed to bore a hole in its stand and connect a security cable, so it won't walk off from my desk!

So yesterday was sucky, but today, today I have hopes for.

And my spouse's computer? I decided to just buy a cheap replacement through a discount program at my workplace. I could spend days fixing her old computer, or put in a few extra hours at work and cover the expense that way.

Next... purchasing a digital camera! Stay tuned...

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