Crap. Crap. Crap.
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apollinavClick the cut if you have any interest in hearing my Microsoft rant.
Sufficed to say I'm out of commission for awhile-ish.
This morning I powered up the laptop to discover it wasn't happening. I called tech support, and after explaining several times I wasn't going to pay to extend my warranty, as my laptop was still under the original warrenty, and could we please get to the part where we fixed my laptop, I actually got connected to Tech Support. I had fears based upon an error message that my harddrive took a nose dive. And I wasn't getting initialization beeps.
So we did a system scan and discovered that it was VISTA that took the nose dive. Apparently VISTA is a piece of crap. No shit.
Long story short, I had to restore my laptop to the original factory settings.
Fuck.
I now have to find my Office Suite cd and install that. No problem.
But I've lost all my files. Some of them I have backed up on a geekstick. Some of them are loaded on googledocs.
Most are gone.
It won't hold up the next chapter of TGC, but it's still 'not good.' And the WIP I had nearly 10,000 words written for to post after TGC... gone too. And it was a dandy fic.
I need chocolate now. Does chocolate and margaritas go together?
Oh, and I forgot to mention. The A/C died last night. The compressor died, and that could be seriously expensive. I have fans blowing everywhere just to keep things marginally inhabitable. I have no idea where I'm miraculously going to pull the money for a new A/C compressor out of, but I'm still more bothered about losing my work. I could sit in a hot-box of a house and be miserable and sweating as long as I have my fics back.
Sufficed to say I'm out of commission for awhile-ish.
This morning I powered up the laptop to discover it wasn't happening. I called tech support, and after explaining several times I wasn't going to pay to extend my warranty, as my laptop was still under the original warrenty, and could we please get to the part where we fixed my laptop, I actually got connected to Tech Support. I had fears based upon an error message that my harddrive took a nose dive. And I wasn't getting initialization beeps.
So we did a system scan and discovered that it was VISTA that took the nose dive. Apparently VISTA is a piece of crap. No shit.
Long story short, I had to restore my laptop to the original factory settings.
Fuck.
I now have to find my Office Suite cd and install that. No problem.
But I've lost all my files. Some of them I have backed up on a geekstick. Some of them are loaded on googledocs.
Most are gone.
It won't hold up the next chapter of TGC, but it's still 'not good.' And the WIP I had nearly 10,000 words written for to post after TGC... gone too. And it was a dandy fic.
I need chocolate now. Does chocolate and margaritas go together?
Oh, and I forgot to mention. The A/C died last night. The compressor died, and that could be seriously expensive. I have fans blowing everywhere just to keep things marginally inhabitable. I have no idea where I'm miraculously going to pull the money for a new A/C compressor out of, but I'm still more bothered about losing my work. I could sit in a hot-box of a house and be miserable and sweating as long as I have my fics back.
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Date: 3 May 2009 12:44 am (UTC)((hugs)) to go with your chocolate and tequila.
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Date: 3 May 2009 09:52 pm (UTC)Oh well. There's really nothing more I can do about it. Bitching won't bring my data back. But it is satisfying...