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Tales From PC Limbo-Land...
Jul. 15th, 2005 11:37 amSo I called about my computer and between sitting on hold and being asked (twice) if I have a desktop or a Mac (these are my options?) dude came back online and said they were installing the OS right now. So yay. Maybe - see - I think he is lying, cause I said - GREAT! That means my PC will be ready for pickup tonight and he said, no - maybe tomorrow.
Why would it take overnight to install an OS? So I asked if they are working on it *right this minute* and he said yes. And I asked if there was any issue about the hard drive and he hemmed and hawed and said that then they have to do something and then install windows and then the updates and OMG! Do you think they are gonna install service pack 2???
I think I am gonna head down to the shop and talk to whomever is standing over my computer right now. Cause either they are working on it, or they are not. If not - fine. I'll come back tomorrow. If they are, then there is no reason I can't have it tonight. I mean - it was 10 am when I called. Tonight is 11 hours away.
Unless they fucked something up. Or my PC is fucked up more than we thought. Or a combination of both.
There were warnings posted all over my PC *not* to touch the 250 gig HD. There are warnings all over my service agreement. I actually warned the guy who answered the phone that the H drive is sacred and holy and all who go near it must go thru a cleansing ritual first. Well - not really, but I did say "They know it is the 80 gig drive they are reformatting, right?" and he was really vague and now I am overwhelmed by panic. Panic and a desire for a chili-cheese coney.
I swear - if I cannot wear the really pretty dress I bought for Club Vivid (the one that was too tight but I decided I'd just lose weight cause - PRETTY!) I am blaming my computer.
I chipped a nail this morning and I blamed my computer because if it had been around I wouldn't have gotten so bored that I painted my nails in the first place.
I can't get into "American Gods" despite the fact that normally, this shit is right up my alley, because I can't concentrate. All my PC's fault.
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renenet is with her due South viewing and as such am unable to email her so that she can talk me down from the Vid Idea Ledge as I don't know exactly what I can reference Spoilerwise and while this might be a moot point as part of me has decided to compare Fraser to French Impressionists (?? I slept funny last night) but it can be a VID! and I doubt any of this is a spoiler -- I don't have the ability to funnel all this through a filter that will let me get off this ledge and think about something else. I'm stuck in a groove.
And everyone knows that the Mountie is much more of a surrealist, anyway. See? That is my point. I am having synaptic misfires without my computer around and ready access to sanity. Stranger shit than normal is teaming up in my head.
Like - okay, see you know how when Two Vowels go walking - the first one does the talking? I think it was Electric Company that actually physically had the vowels meet and then stroll down the street arm in arm and so in my head I have this..... this loop. It is always running and it is of these two vowels meeting by a fence and kind of nodding and smiling at each other. Than the second vowel takes the arm of the first vowel and they walk away all genteel-like and I don't remember the first vowel actually talking but I do remember the second vowel nodding silently in agreement as they walked.
And somewhere along the way this loop got Jane Austenized. In my head. I think it happened the summer I turned 12.
But it is always playing - it is just background noise. So I'll be thinking of one thing and the see or hear or remember something else and the Two Vowels loop will try to team them up. Like thought A will see thought B and they will smile and nod and it becomes this whole Regency Drama of will they or won't they?
And usually they don't, although in the case of the Lethal Weapon Spike Angel Connection - they did. You just never know.
And normally I tend to ignore the walking duos because there is this CONSTANT parade and it can be overwhelming. But sometimes I can pay selective attention to a few and I'll make a connection that really excites me and YAY! Fun. But right now I am bored and not concentrating and just generally flailing and so I'm focusing on the lineup a lot more than usual.
But I generally lack the ability (and truth be told, inclination) to tell the difference between a quality creative connection and one that is just crack. Thus - Ledge.
Why would it take overnight to install an OS? So I asked if they are working on it *right this minute* and he said yes. And I asked if there was any issue about the hard drive and he hemmed and hawed and said that then they have to do something and then install windows and then the updates and OMG! Do you think they are gonna install service pack 2???
I think I am gonna head down to the shop and talk to whomever is standing over my computer right now. Cause either they are working on it, or they are not. If not - fine. I'll come back tomorrow. If they are, then there is no reason I can't have it tonight. I mean - it was 10 am when I called. Tonight is 11 hours away.
Unless they fucked something up. Or my PC is fucked up more than we thought. Or a combination of both.
There were warnings posted all over my PC *not* to touch the 250 gig HD. There are warnings all over my service agreement. I actually warned the guy who answered the phone that the H drive is sacred and holy and all who go near it must go thru a cleansing ritual first. Well - not really, but I did say "They know it is the 80 gig drive they are reformatting, right?" and he was really vague and now I am overwhelmed by panic. Panic and a desire for a chili-cheese coney.
I swear - if I cannot wear the really pretty dress I bought for Club Vivid (the one that was too tight but I decided I'd just lose weight cause - PRETTY!) I am blaming my computer.
I chipped a nail this morning and I blamed my computer because if it had been around I wouldn't have gotten so bored that I painted my nails in the first place.
I can't get into "American Gods" despite the fact that normally, this shit is right up my alley, because I can't concentrate. All my PC's fault.
I have no idea where
renenet is with her due South viewing and as such am unable to email her so that she can talk me down from the Vid Idea Ledge as I don't know exactly what I can reference Spoilerwise and while this might be a moot point as part of me has decided to compare Fraser to French Impressionists (?? I slept funny last night) but it can be a VID! and I doubt any of this is a spoiler -- I don't have the ability to funnel all this through a filter that will let me get off this ledge and think about something else. I'm stuck in a groove. And everyone knows that the Mountie is much more of a surrealist, anyway. See? That is my point. I am having synaptic misfires without my computer around and ready access to sanity. Stranger shit than normal is teaming up in my head.
Like - okay, see you know how when Two Vowels go walking - the first one does the talking? I think it was Electric Company that actually physically had the vowels meet and then stroll down the street arm in arm and so in my head I have this..... this loop. It is always running and it is of these two vowels meeting by a fence and kind of nodding and smiling at each other. Than the second vowel takes the arm of the first vowel and they walk away all genteel-like and I don't remember the first vowel actually talking but I do remember the second vowel nodding silently in agreement as they walked.
And somewhere along the way this loop got Jane Austenized. In my head. I think it happened the summer I turned 12.
But it is always playing - it is just background noise. So I'll be thinking of one thing and the see or hear or remember something else and the Two Vowels loop will try to team them up. Like thought A will see thought B and they will smile and nod and it becomes this whole Regency Drama of will they or won't they?
And usually they don't, although in the case of the Lethal Weapon Spike Angel Connection - they did. You just never know.
And normally I tend to ignore the walking duos because there is this CONSTANT parade and it can be overwhelming. But sometimes I can pay selective attention to a few and I'll make a connection that really excites me and YAY! Fun. But right now I am bored and not concentrating and just generally flailing and so I'm focusing on the lineup a lot more than usual.
But I generally lack the ability (and truth be told, inclination) to tell the difference between a quality creative connection and one that is just crack. Thus - Ledge.
