Tuesday, August 19, 2003

   *yawn, grumble* ...hate my stupid ------ of a computer... What is this, the tenth time it's done this?
I'm having computer troubles, joy of all joys (Ever notice how 'joy' with an 'e' in it would be 'Joey'? They mean the same thing anyway). It's happened before, it's happening again. I thought with cable internet it might not happen anymore. I guess the problem wasn't with AT&T, even though I still hate that ISP's guts like nobody's business. I'm not too fond of Comcast on occasion either, but at least it's faster.
See, sometimes, for no reason at all except for my computer to spite me, I think, I will run into a most disturbing dillemma. All of a sudden, I will be attacked viciously by annoying, Hell-sent, rapidly-multiplying "Action Canceled" and "This Page Cannot be Displayed" windows. They keep coming up, miles of them, in hordes. Before I finally shut my computer down I had around 44 or so in the space of less than three minutes. But to shut my computer down, I had to endure a most trying ritual. I couldn't shut it down the regular old way because it just didn't work. The thing was too busy coming up with more windows to think about shutting down. Ctrl+Alt+Delete got me to the Windows Task Manager, no good because I still couldn't shut down or restart the computer and there were too many windows to close down one by one. With new-fangled computers pressing the power button does no good if Windows is started already. I turned it off at the power strip, but the computer itself wasn't plugged into that (I forgot), it was plugged into the shock protector. I unplugged the shock protector thinking, 'It's just like the power strip, except it's a pain in the butt to find the on/off switch.' I also forgot the fact that it was a SHOCK PROTECTOR, meaning it was supposed to keep things running even if there was no power. Or at least beep incessantly. I unplugged what I thought was the computer cable-- it was the power strip cable. Then came the monitor plug and finally the PC. The thing kept beeping, so I plugged it back into the wall and stuck my tongue out at it. That was my adventure turning the computer off. Fun, ne? There's more.
I plugged everything back in and the computer took its sweet time re-assessing itself, starting up as slowly as possible. It finally got started up, and I felt like watching a really good Inuyasha AMV, so I got that all set up. Thing was, there was no sound. I checked everything, the sound icon on the little hotbar, the volume for the player, and the volume for the speakers. It was during the latter that I discovered I hadn't turned the power strip on again. This was minor compared to my first predicament, though. And now everything is fixed and I can write to you all and dicover that someone signed my guestbook in the middle of the night. Arigatou, Sailor Otaku!
It is late, I need sleep. Get me the Nightquil, that stuff works like a charm. (It's creepy though. The first time I took it I swallowed it and in seconds I got all wobbly. I couldn't walk straight, it was scary. Not to mention it's all green and goopy, looks like what Jaken might resemble if he were run over several times by our Aztek.)
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