Crap. Crap. Crap.

[apollinav]

Click 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.

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[apollinav.livejournal.com]

I WANTED XP. I did. I asked for it. But I custom ordered the laptop from Dell, and they weren't installing with XP anymore. They're only building with Vista. So I bit the bullet and acquiessed. I wish I hadn't. When it reverts to original factory settings, Vista pops up again.

I'm thinking really hard about the chocolate margarita recipe. I'll be in Phoenix next week and spending time with some old high school girlfriends I haven't seen in ages. That might be the perfect entertainment for an evening.

[irishredlass.livejournal.com]

Hmm with chicken roll-ups that might make for a taste evening treat as you catch up on all the news.

Phoenix is a beautiful city... I was just outside of Phoenix in April for the awards trip I went on. We stayed at the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale.

I am sooo glad I have a computer geek for a brother, at least he is good for something.

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Excellent thought, and they don't make much mess, so I'm not likely to make messes in someone else's kitchen. I know that irks me.

I was looking forward to Phoenix. I've never been. But I've got so much on my plate here, it's more of a headache to leave.