Wow. What a horrible time for a crash
So the story goes something like this. I got home from class on Monday, grabbed my red pen, turned my comp on, and headed up to the paper so I could do my normal duty of proofreading. Not a big deal, but when I got home, I decided to the the Sports Guruish thing and check the headlines on ESPN.com. Of course, I signed into MSN to see who all was online. I had only been sitting at my desk for about five minutes when my monitor just clicks off. "Um..okay." I thought. "What the hell is this all about?" It was as if it had just gone to sleep. I saw my light on my hard drive flickering at about a million clicks a second. Nothing was happening, even though I had mouse feed and keyboard lights. So I restart it and then get nothing again. No monitor, but still have keyboard. So I turn it completey off and think "This can't be good." Again, I fire it up. This time it acts as if it want to run, but decides that it no longer doesn't and promptly SHUTS ITSELF OFF. At that point, I began to believe that the problem was very serious. Immediately, I called my tech gurus. These dudes know their shit. Gsquared and I made an appointment for this afternoon and I cut class to make it. Yes, I'm a dedicated student. Gsquared had some suspiscions and fortunately for me and my meager pocketbook they were right.My video card had committed suicide by spontaneous combustion.
Fortunatley Some Guy had one laying around and installed it for me this evening. Plus he cleaned out my machine of the viruses that were making a home here along with the spyware that had decided to freeload without paying rent. So now I have firefox and another spyware destroyer. Now that I'm finally back online, I realize I didn't miss much except that assignment that I need to write tomorrow.
As for yesterday, I joined the club. It was a prestigous club with members such as Tim and Josh. Now all three of us have matching war wounds on our legs. I had made it the entire summer without opening my leg like I always do. In fact, I was pretty proud of myself. Could I break a rustyesque tradition and not look like someone took a cheese grater to my leg? Oh hell no. And I slid headfirst but turned on an angle to avoid the tag (which I didn't avoid) and carved up my left leg again. Nice move slick.
Anyways I'm out.
posted by Rusty @ 10:00 PM
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