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ARGH COMPUTERS RAWR
Apr. 10th, 2011 02:35 amWhat a bad day. A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Well, most of it.
It started off well enough. I ran away this afternoon not long after waking up (I'm on a 2 pm to 6 am wake schedule, so it's a little off from most normal people right now) to do some research at a local coffee shop. That went all right, and I got a lot of work done. I was extra pleased because I it was lovely enough outside that I wore a new grey knit dress - with cardi and tights, of course - and was feeling pretty good about myself.
But it's still early spring here, and there's still lots of water and melting snow around. On the way home, I hopped over a puddle onto the grass to avoid a largerlake puddle on the sidewalk, and promptly slid and fell on my butt. In the puddle.
And the day sort of went downhill from there.
For the last few hours, I've been fighting with my computer. It's lagging like crazy, suddenly working hard and overheating, and the system icon that tells me my battery power is no longer working accurately. It'll say I have 70% power left, but then shut down because the battery is dead. It did this to me yesterday, although at least then it was at ~20% power. I don't know what's going on, but I'm running lots of spyware and anti-virus software right now to see if that's the problem.
Hmm...the last spyware program just finished running, and it - along with all the other programs I've run - says everything's kosher. Well, what the heck, computer.
Maybe it's just that my battery needs to be replaced. It's been draining faster and faster, the last month. It used to last a good 2-3 hours on battery, depending on what I was doing. Now, I'm lucky if it lasts an hour. If the change had been more gradual, I might be less concerned, but this was rather sudden.
In addition, the last couple months, my disc drive isn't working anymore. Or rather, rarely works. Oft times, after opening the computer, the disc drive will start running really fast, making this loud whirling sound and causing my whole computer to vibrate. The only way this stops is when I either shut the computer down, or close the laptop and let it sit for a while (the drive will stop running after a few minutes).
ARGH COMPUTER! The stupid part is, I paid an arm-and-a-leg for a 3 year extended warranty from Best Buy when I bought this thing, and it's still under coverage. But there's two problems with that: 1) I can't just give up my computer for the weeks - months they'll take to do any repairs, and 2) I've been trying to get them to order a replacement keyboard for this thing since they promised to replace it AT THE TIME I BOUGHT IT since it was a floor model and the escape key was broken. That was 2.5 years ago. ALSO, when my harddrive bit the dust, they gave me the wrong information and I ended up shelling out about the same amount of money for the replacement harddrive as I paid for the extended warranty. When I came in with some installation problem (oh hey right, the re-install discs I BOUGHT FROM THEM didn't work), they told me that it should've been covered under my warranty.
Fuck you, Best Buy. I don't trust leaving my laptop with you. I'll probably never get it back.
Anywho, yay computer problems. So of course, because of all this, my little productive streak came to a (sliding) end. I've got 3 hours left before bedtime, and frankly, I just want to go sew.
*headdesk*
BTW, FUSS IF YOU'RE READING THIS, SO SORRY I WASN'T ONLINE FOR A CHAT. I RAN AWAY THIS AFTERNOON AND DIDN'T REMEMBER UNTIL MUCH LATER. I'LL EXPLAIN NEXT TIME I CATCH YOU.
Well, most of it.
It started off well enough. I ran away this afternoon not long after waking up (I'm on a 2 pm to 6 am wake schedule, so it's a little off from most normal people right now) to do some research at a local coffee shop. That went all right, and I got a lot of work done. I was extra pleased because I it was lovely enough outside that I wore a new grey knit dress - with cardi and tights, of course - and was feeling pretty good about myself.
But it's still early spring here, and there's still lots of water and melting snow around. On the way home, I hopped over a puddle onto the grass to avoid a larger
And the day sort of went downhill from there.
For the last few hours, I've been fighting with my computer. It's lagging like crazy, suddenly working hard and overheating, and the system icon that tells me my battery power is no longer working accurately. It'll say I have 70% power left, but then shut down because the battery is dead. It did this to me yesterday, although at least then it was at ~20% power. I don't know what's going on, but I'm running lots of spyware and anti-virus software right now to see if that's the problem.
Hmm...the last spyware program just finished running, and it - along with all the other programs I've run - says everything's kosher. Well, what the heck, computer.
Maybe it's just that my battery needs to be replaced. It's been draining faster and faster, the last month. It used to last a good 2-3 hours on battery, depending on what I was doing. Now, I'm lucky if it lasts an hour. If the change had been more gradual, I might be less concerned, but this was rather sudden.
In addition, the last couple months, my disc drive isn't working anymore. Or rather, rarely works. Oft times, after opening the computer, the disc drive will start running really fast, making this loud whirling sound and causing my whole computer to vibrate. The only way this stops is when I either shut the computer down, or close the laptop and let it sit for a while (the drive will stop running after a few minutes).
ARGH COMPUTER! The stupid part is, I paid an arm-and-a-leg for a 3 year extended warranty from Best Buy when I bought this thing, and it's still under coverage. But there's two problems with that: 1) I can't just give up my computer for the weeks - months they'll take to do any repairs, and 2) I've been trying to get them to order a replacement keyboard for this thing since they promised to replace it AT THE TIME I BOUGHT IT since it was a floor model and the escape key was broken. That was 2.5 years ago. ALSO, when my harddrive bit the dust, they gave me the wrong information and I ended up shelling out about the same amount of money for the replacement harddrive as I paid for the extended warranty. When I came in with some installation problem (oh hey right, the re-install discs I BOUGHT FROM THEM didn't work), they told me that it should've been covered under my warranty.
Fuck you, Best Buy. I don't trust leaving my laptop with you. I'll probably never get it back.
Anywho, yay computer problems. So of course, because of all this, my little productive streak came to a (sliding) end. I've got 3 hours left before bedtime, and frankly, I just want to go sew.
*headdesk*
BTW, FUSS IF YOU'RE READING THIS, SO SORRY I WASN'T ONLINE FOR A CHAT. I RAN AWAY THIS AFTERNOON AND DIDN'T REMEMBER UNTIL MUCH LATER. I'LL EXPLAIN NEXT TIME I CATCH YOU.
