Sunday, August 8, 2004

GAH!
As if I weren't angry enough before, this stupid laptop accidentally hit the Add Post button just as I was almost done with this update.

Piece of crap.

Well, good news, kiddies! My computer's dead. It had been acting funky all day, and it finally crapped out on me. Things were going fine early in the day- I was talking with Shin, and I was reading a Doom 3 review, but out of nowhere the computer suddenly froze and restarted.

All day it had been making this strange clicking noise. Now, this computer's been making a clicking noise its entire life, but this sound was different. It was much louder, and much less consistent. The other one would make a thinking sound for five to ten seconds and make its sound, while this new one would have a heavy thinking sound while having very far-between clicks one minute and intense multiple repititions the next.

Well, it never got past the Windows 98 screen the three or four times I restarted. We came back from Black Angus tonight and restarted it, only to find a black screen that said, in a menacing 8-bit font, "Operating system not found."

Who knows what happened to it? There's no sure way for me to find out until the guys at the computer shop check it out on Monday. I'm accessing from my deceased grandmother's laptop (So it has a purpose after all), and I've been frantically asking about what happened to many, many people. They have all basically come to the conclusion that it's a mechanical problem- one person even went so far as to say that they hard drive may have simply burned out.

..Whoa, man, Resevoir Dogs is on Bravo. I'll edit this when I'm done watching. O_O

EDIT: Okay, PT told me Resevoir Dogs was on.. In the Eastern Standard Time Zone. I have to wait until about 12:30 Pacific Sandard Time to see the edited but hopefully still good Tarantino-ness, heh.

Anyway, back to where I left off.

According to that friend of mine, if the thing just burned out I'll probably be able to get most of my files back. I don't really mind losing most of my stuff- I just need all the web graphics I've done dating all the way back to that very first Rei banner. They all hold very.. Special memories for me. Oh yeah, and I need PhotoShop and my music. All the hours of downloading that it took to get those precious 129 songs and PhotoShop (courtesy of Syk3).. It would take forever to acculumulate it all again.

Other than that, everything is either expendable or recoverable.

I'm trying to put a positive spin on it all. This gives my parents a very large reason to upgrade the computer, and my sources are pretty knowledgeable, so I'm not gonna sweat it too much. I've already drawn one really awesome Saikano picture because I had nothing else to do. A vacation from computer addiction may be a good thing, heh.

I'm going to have to change the title for my comics. I did a Google search, and there's already a Sick and Twisted comic/drawing site on the 'net. I'm thinking of "Torture Your Funny Bone," but I'm always open to suggestions.

And while I'm on the topic of the comics, I've decided to do the comics weekly, posting them on Tuesdays. It only takes me two or three days to do one right now, but once I get back into school I may hardly squeeze by. As for why I chose Tuesday out of the individually special and inconvenient seven days of the week, there's not much reasoning behind it. I just have this one done, and I just feel like putting this one up on Tuesday.

Now that I think about it, there is a bit of logic to Tuesdays. That will give me four days of art class to get all of the drawing and inking done, I can scan it and do some of the PhotoShop on the weekend, and finish the coloring on that Monday. Not too bad, eh?

On an entirely different tangent, I watched that new Michael Jackson movie on VH1, and I can't tell if they're promoting him or trying to make him look bad. Either way, the man's totally nuts, and the makeup people were horrible. In some scenes post-95 Jacko was totally pale, and in the next one he looked more like a black actor who got some sawdust on his face. It was all really poorly done, but whatever. It's not like I wasn't watching it just so I can laugh at the man.

Hm, the laptop seems to be getting quite hot now. I'm going to head out. Wish me and my computer luck.
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