That was a close one
Nov. 19th, 2006 02:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
farawayeyes4Hey Reader,
Whew. What a night so far. I am just glad I can be on the internet writing in my journal at all. I got home at nine in the morning after working ten hours at ShopKo last night because we had a really huge truck that took forever to process on the floor, not even mentioning back stock. I went to bed at 10 and slept until 6:30, so I woke up for once feeling rather refreshed. That was nice. I had a nice dinner, relaxed some, started my laundry and took a bath while I let my computer cool down.
That's when trouble started. I decide to reboot my system after laundry is changed, my hair combed, and my sheets changed only to get a black screen. I can see my computer running, hear it whirring, and KNOW it is on. So I try to figure out what is wrong. I see that my monitor light is green, so I know my monitor is on and reading things, but one problem. The screen is BLACK. Totally black. As in I couldn't see anything black. I go, "Okay. Now what." So then I plug and unplug the stupid monitor and get a brief ten second flash of screen. I can see that my computer is fine. Great. Yay. Now to log off and find a new monitor to hook up and be on my way.
Sooo, I drag down the oldest monitor in the house and hook it up. I mean, OLD. Like two computers ago, eight or nine years ago old. I turn the computer back on and lo and behold, I have visual. I'm like YES. I'm ready to go. Wait. As they say here in Minnesota, "well it could be worse." It got worse.
Now my mouse and keyboard won't work. No reaction. No movement. I push the wireless connect thing over and over. Nothing. I'm getting pissed now. Did something blow in the computer WHEN the monitor died? Gah. I don't bother properly shutting the computer this time, cut all the power and juice to the whole system with the powerstrip button, and let it sit. I start to clean up everything, the monitor, the computer hard case, the keyboard, the TV, everything with any hint of dust and turn up Nine Inch Nails' Broken to keep from breaking shit. It wouldn't be so bad if fourteen pages of the next chapter weren't TRAPPED on the computer. I can't access the file, I can't even SEE it. The one time I don't save it to a disc, this crap happens.
I decide then to see if after letting it sit cold for a bit if the computer will let me do my thing. I reboot it again, see the screen come on, and lo and behold I have mousage. Yay! I celebrate and then look forlornly at my flat screen monitor that died. I decide to hook it up to another computer in the house to see if it's truly dead or what. Sure enough, it is. Stupid, expensive thing didn't make it two years. I'm on my first monitor again. Everything is soooooo tiny on the screen. The damn thing IS my desk, but everything's at least ten times smaller than it was on the flat screen monitor. Oh well. As they say, it could be worse!
Anyways, I'm glad to have a couple days off from work, and I am hoping that if things hold on the computer here, I'll be able to maybe, just maybe, have the next chapter soon. I gotta tell you, that was not the way I wanted to spend my Saturday night at all. I am beginning to think the world is against the lemon in this chapter or maybe there's someone out there against the dog boy getting some perhaps...oh well.
Until next time,
Far Away Eyes
Whew. What a night so far. I am just glad I can be on the internet writing in my journal at all. I got home at nine in the morning after working ten hours at ShopKo last night because we had a really huge truck that took forever to process on the floor, not even mentioning back stock. I went to bed at 10 and slept until 6:30, so I woke up for once feeling rather refreshed. That was nice. I had a nice dinner, relaxed some, started my laundry and took a bath while I let my computer cool down.
That's when trouble started. I decide to reboot my system after laundry is changed, my hair combed, and my sheets changed only to get a black screen. I can see my computer running, hear it whirring, and KNOW it is on. So I try to figure out what is wrong. I see that my monitor light is green, so I know my monitor is on and reading things, but one problem. The screen is BLACK. Totally black. As in I couldn't see anything black. I go, "Okay. Now what." So then I plug and unplug the stupid monitor and get a brief ten second flash of screen. I can see that my computer is fine. Great. Yay. Now to log off and find a new monitor to hook up and be on my way.
Sooo, I drag down the oldest monitor in the house and hook it up. I mean, OLD. Like two computers ago, eight or nine years ago old. I turn the computer back on and lo and behold, I have visual. I'm like YES. I'm ready to go. Wait. As they say here in Minnesota, "well it could be worse." It got worse.
Now my mouse and keyboard won't work. No reaction. No movement. I push the wireless connect thing over and over. Nothing. I'm getting pissed now. Did something blow in the computer WHEN the monitor died? Gah. I don't bother properly shutting the computer this time, cut all the power and juice to the whole system with the powerstrip button, and let it sit. I start to clean up everything, the monitor, the computer hard case, the keyboard, the TV, everything with any hint of dust and turn up Nine Inch Nails' Broken to keep from breaking shit. It wouldn't be so bad if fourteen pages of the next chapter weren't TRAPPED on the computer. I can't access the file, I can't even SEE it. The one time I don't save it to a disc, this crap happens.
I decide then to see if after letting it sit cold for a bit if the computer will let me do my thing. I reboot it again, see the screen come on, and lo and behold I have mousage. Yay! I celebrate and then look forlornly at my flat screen monitor that died. I decide to hook it up to another computer in the house to see if it's truly dead or what. Sure enough, it is. Stupid, expensive thing didn't make it two years. I'm on my first monitor again. Everything is soooooo tiny on the screen. The damn thing IS my desk, but everything's at least ten times smaller than it was on the flat screen monitor. Oh well. As they say, it could be worse!
Anyways, I'm glad to have a couple days off from work, and I am hoping that if things hold on the computer here, I'll be able to maybe, just maybe, have the next chapter soon. I gotta tell you, that was not the way I wanted to spend my Saturday night at all. I am beginning to think the world is against the lemon in this chapter or maybe there's someone out there against the dog boy getting some perhaps...oh well.
Until next time,
Far Away Eyes
