Oh.
My.
GAWD!
I did NOT mean to take another blogging hiatus, but this time it had nothing to do with the writer's block, exhaustion, or utter lack of inspiration of which I also have been suffering lately...
This time it was a bad (evil, nasty, hiss, baa) "mandatory" Windows Vista Update that killed my blogging mojo... and my computer.
Yup, it zapped my brand new laptop and rendered it totally useless for over a WEEK ago... and, of course, where were the restore disks?
Ummm, tucked neatly in a box at my parents house on the other side of the world...
Stupid of me! I know, but trust me, it would be the last thing you'd be thinking about too if you were A) moving OVERSEAS and B) with a toddler who has never flown before...
... and so what if I opted to pack those five extra diapers instead?
In spite of all this, I still do NOT regret it... and neither do my fellow passengers on American Airlines Flight #384.
Besides, my parents managed to find the disk and mailed them to me molto pronto. They were particularly motivated after I told them there won't be anymore web cam calls with their beloved one and only grandchild until they do...
In the meantime, my hubby, sexy, open-source lovin', techy programmer geek that he is, loaded a version of Linux on my computer, so that I could at least get online.
FAIL!
Everything took so excruciatingly long to load that I couldn't stand to do anything more than check a few e-mails each day before I was over it. I won't even go into the "mystery key strokes" and random prompts that would pop up as I typed...
(To all of you who received a typo-ridden emailed from me last week, now you know why...)
I'm not pro-Microsoft or anti-Linux or even think I'm cool enough for a Mac...
(What? Do you not have those debates with your husband, too?)
I just want my COMPUTER TO WORK, damnit!
My.
GAWD!
I did NOT mean to take another blogging hiatus, but this time it had nothing to do with the writer's block, exhaustion, or utter lack of inspiration of which I also have been suffering lately...
This time it was a bad (evil, nasty, hiss, baa) "mandatory" Windows Vista Update that killed my blogging mojo... and my computer.
Yup, it zapped my brand new laptop and rendered it totally useless for over a WEEK ago... and, of course, where were the restore disks?
Ummm, tucked neatly in a box at my parents house on the other side of the world...
Stupid of me! I know, but trust me, it would be the last thing you'd be thinking about too if you were A) moving OVERSEAS and B) with a toddler who has never flown before...
... and so what if I opted to pack those five extra diapers instead?
In spite of all this, I still do NOT regret it... and neither do my fellow passengers on American Airlines Flight #384.
Besides, my parents managed to find the disk and mailed them to me molto pronto. They were particularly motivated after I told them there won't be anymore web cam calls with their beloved one and only grandchild until they do...
In the meantime, my hubby, sexy, open-source lovin', techy programmer geek that he is, loaded a version of Linux on my computer, so that I could at least get online.
FAIL!
Everything took so excruciatingly long to load that I couldn't stand to do anything more than check a few e-mails each day before I was over it. I won't even go into the "mystery key strokes" and random prompts that would pop up as I typed...
(To all of you who received a typo-ridden emailed from me last week, now you know why...)
I'm not pro-Microsoft or anti-Linux or even think I'm cool enough for a Mac...
(What? Do you not have those debates with your husband, too?)
I just want my COMPUTER TO WORK, damnit!
4 comments:
Oddly, I've been dealing with virus hell. Somehow a site seems to have attracted one and it multiplied.
Still trying to get my wife's computer working. Linux ran much better on her computer after I installed it rather than running from the live CD, but she needs her Windows programs. I've been trying to get Vista reinstalled, but Vista is evil, evil, evil, evil. Biggest pain in the arse to install and keep running. (Microsoft makes geek mad!!! Geek Smash!! Grrr... Sorry, had to vent... )
Patience, loyal readers... we'll be back in business shortly!
You poor thing. Life without the computer is no fun at all. I hope that everything is smooth sailing again soon.
OMG seriously, maybe this is why my computer is acting all weird on me. Grrrr. I'm off to investigate this further.
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