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.

Comments

[apollinav.livejournal.com]

Wow. I really had no idea. I took them at face value from what they had said. I'll look into the article.

Thank you for enlightening me.