today has been a dark day for me.
you never think it will happen to you. you do everything right, you follow all the rules, and still devastation wreaks havoc.
i'm talking about my work computer of course. it crashed yesterday afternoon.
i was typing merrily away and all of a sudden my screen froze. unfazed, i did the old Ctrl Alt Delete dance and restarted my computer, only to be confronted with the thing that anyone who hasn't backed up their hard drive recently should dread to see
the blue screen of death.
this bright blue screen was staring at me, with a whole bunch of white text (none of which i could read) but i could pick out the words ERROR and FAILURE. i calmly rebooted.
again, the blue screen of death
i tried, naively, to reboot 3 or 4 times before i placed a frantic call to the tech guy who sucked his teeth when i described the horrible shade of blue my screen had turned. "this is not good. i'll have a guy come by tomorrow morning".
um tomorrow morning? it's 3PM now. what am i supposed to do for 2 hours without a computer?
it turns out i had my copy of Memoirs of a Geisha that i am currently re reading, so i pulled that out and relaxed with my book until the end of the day.
it was a very long two hours.
and then today the tech guy didn't actually show up until 10AM and then it was a big scene of hooking up diffferent lap tops, running different diagnostic tests, there was fancy talk of "ghosting" my desktop. it was all very thrilling especially since i couldn't do any of my work, and had no where to sit so i milled around the lobby for an hour or so, intermittenly reading and bothering waiting clients.
and now i am told that it is fixed FOR NOW. but could go at any moment. so with each line of data i enter, i must save immediately after.
that is a whole lot of saving.
my brand new hard drive is to arrive tomorrow, and will take a few hours to set up and get ready. and all i have to do is make sure my computer does not crash between now and that moment.
i'm sure blogging isn't hurting anything.
right?
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
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3 comments:
I thought that I was going to die the other day when our Internet went down. It was like the computer was worthless to me.
Of course, now I completely take that back as your dilemma is FAR worse.
Thanks for the helpful words about my job. I think that it's just a phase though. :-)
Samantha
although that is a sad story, Memoirs of a Geisha is like one of the best books I have ever read. So I am kind of jealous.
oh girl, my home computer is been acting funky lately as well..what's up with our computers?! grrrrr.
~natalie.
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