Technical Difficulties

Yesterday, dear blog, you almost lost me.

Just after finishing yesterday's posts, I was screwing around making my desktop all pretty and all of a sudden the power flickers. XBox, the television, and even my precious computer all powered down. While everything else easily responded to their power buttons, my computer did not. Affectionately referred to as "your mom" my computer ignored our efforts, flashing a scary red light where the power indicator should be. We unplugged it and let it sit. Oh how those minutes were long.

After plugging it back in, the scary red light was gone and we again tentatively extended a digit to press that power button. It turned on, I was still holding my breath. Blah, blah, blah, welcome to Windows! Uh wait... why isn't it doing anything? Click, click, click... Still nothing, literally nothing, not even Ctrl+Alt+Delete. With a whine I hit the reset button. Welcome to Windo-- stuck again.

This pattern repeated numerous times. It wasn't working, nothing was working. I shut it down, improperly of course considering I had no other options.

I threw on some shoes and shuffled my way down the hallway of our building to Hairy's door and knocked. I activated their fierce guard dog, the Chihuahua, but sadly no one was home. I called him and begged for sympathy and aid (he's the closest thing I have to a computer guy) and he said he would stop by once he got home.

That hour or so that the computer sat off was sad, it is a rare occurrence around here. I ended up passing the time playing Bejeweled 2 on the 360 until that much awaited knock came. I offered him a beer and pouted while he booted "your mom" up to the same results. He couldn't even get safe mode to load correctly. Lucky for me Hairy had just recently found his Windows disk, salvation! He ran home to fetch it, taking just long enough that I figured that my luck was wearing thin and maybe he had found it. To my relief, he returned, disk in hand.

At first, he tried running a repair, but either the disk, Windows or him just wasn't working right (I blame the fact that he is not so much a computer guy anymore as he is a car guy... funny considering he has barely helped us with his car, heh) and we broke down and realized the best way to go would be a wipe and reload.

So yes, this means I have lost everything. Luckily a good portion of our pictures and music had already been backed up, the biggest loss would probably have to be my favorites list. I bookmark everything and now I have to start from scratch, yay me. After Hairy left, satisfied that everything was working and protected, I had to sit through ninety two updates, sheesh that boy needs to get a newer copy of Windows. On the plus side, my computer now seems to be running quite efficiently without all those pesky programs on it.

This whole ordeal started just before the hubby left for work, by the time he got home I was still sitting through updates and trying to remember what all I needed to download still. I basically got nothing accomplished, not even the dishes. Bad housewife, bad. Ketchup spent the whole day going back and forth between sleeping upright in his chair and trying to get me to play Halo 3, something I was obviously too distracted for.

So the point of this whole story is that even though you didn't know I was gone, I'm back and I'm going to try and keep it that way by not screwing it up some how. (I have a bad history with computers that I'm combating here so wish me luck, heh.)