The other day I had a strange feeling that I’d probably be reinstalling vista in the near future. Not that I WANTED to do that, but I had this feeling. It had been loading slowly lately and there was something nagging me about my current setup.
Today, well, today blam. Windows Vista won’t load. The hard drive gets to a certain point and starts clicking. Literally click. Click. Click.
I take the drive out and put it as a slave in the other computer; it seems to run fine, no clicking. I can see all my data and there’s no bad sectors on a check disk.
This has happened once in the past and I fixed it by hooking the drive up to a Windows XP machine and reformatting it. I don’t know why XP was able to fix it (when reformatting with Vista did nothing), but it kept the problem from repeating for six months now. So yeah, I don’t have an XP machine at the moment. The ones I’m building for a friend are still in pieces.
Good gravy, I’m screwed.
So I got in the car and went to Staples. Staples was the closest place open on a Sunday afternoon and frankly, it was so hot, I would have settled for Wal-mart if it was close. The biggest disadvantage to Staples is that they sell old tech and their selection is limited. Case in point: this afternoon I just wanted to pop in and get another 500gb SATA-2 drive. They only had 300gbs. I grabbed two of them and got out of there — spending more in the process but hey, if I can get the old drive to work with the 2 new ones, I’d have 1.1tb to work with. That’s good. Right?
Driving home I am worrying about getting everything done because I have a one hour shift at the online job tonight and I don’t know how long everything is going to take. Well, I should have counted on everything going wrong. The biggest bitch session I’ll note from tonight’s ordeal is that HughesNet throttles people down at the worst time. It’s a ripoff. I can say that as a customer under contract as well. I downloaded music earlier. Apparently I went over my quota for the day and ta-da, as I go to reinstall everything I’m down to 2k download speeds.
HughesNet screws me good at the worst possible times.
Did I mention they’re a ripoff? I thought I did.
So now it’s 11:42pm as I write this, I’m down to connecting at 1.5k and I’m swearing about the speed as I try to access anything. I still have a ton of windows updates to go, ati and creative drivers to redownload and I’m sitting here trying not to think about my ex-girlfriend even though I have one of her favorite songs stuck in my head.
Thank god I haven’t installed my sound card drivers yet.
I flirted with someone the other day. I’m not one to flirt in person. I’m too much of an idiot to do that. Working the retail job there really aren’t a lot of choices for me. They’re either too young or way too old. Girls my age are usually married and I’m so not going there. So while I can see knockout girls come and go, I’m usually more concerned about my job than getting numbers. Yeah, I’m an idiot. I admit it.
So I want a girl who isn’t into the whole online thing. Maybe the next one will get me away from the computer more. Maybe she’ll get me out of the house. I don’t know. Every complaint the last ex had, I’m trying to work on.
I talked to one on Friday. She’s been coming in since I started working there. Cute, kind of short, has a stud in her nose. Otherwise normal, always alone though so god knows her back story. We’ve been chatting every now and then for the past month. She’s cute enough that I could get used to hanging out with her should that happen. She likes the Ramones, which is a plus, and seems pretty cool.
I asked her how her fourth was. God. She tells me she spent the entire day playing World of Warcraft.
Dear god, I can pick them, can’t I?
I didn’t go running away. I made polite conversation and lol told her that I play City of Heroes. She’d never heard of it. Maybe there’s hope yet for her.
God knows where anything is going at this point.
All I do know is that I’m going to bed.
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