As if it couldn't get any worse...

Now, I find out that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay are eating better than I ever have. (Requires Acrobat Reader)

Well...

Went ahead and bit the bullet, and there should be a brand-new Dell on my doorstep (or at the post office; I don't know how they send these things) by Monday-ish. So yeah. Between the $273 hit I take Thursday when I pay my brother for all the various moving expenses, the 150 a month in various car payments, 60 or so for car insurance, 50 for cable/internet, whatever the hell rent is, electricty, needing to get my cat spayed, needing to get a phone, and whatever expenses are going to pop up when it's least convenient, adding that extra monthly PC payment is going to cripple my ass. I should still be able to pay all my bills, but I'll have to stay away from the $5.50 DVD bin and become reacquainted with the joys of ramen noodles and Ghetto Helper (add tuna or $1-a-tube ground turkey to Great Value brand macaroni and cheese - Total cost, about 80 cents for the tuna version and $1.33 for turkey.) for quite a while. In case an old roommate of mine ever stumbles across this page, I'd just like to point out that that's what you do when you wanna buy expensive shit: You make sure all bills can be paid and do without in other areas. You don't let rent go for 4 months so you can buy a computer that's about $1000 out of your price range, you stupid faux-lesbian moron. You know, if that woman ever paid me the money she owed me, it would knock out roughly half the cost of that damn computer. I'm not bitter. No, really. Anyway, to kill time, I'll probably go hammer out some sort of website update on my computer (the one that can't get on the internet) save it on a CD-R, and hopefully, you fuckwits can have something to read whenever the new stuff comes in. And I need to remember to pay the cable bill tomorrow. Crap.

Yup.

Crap screwed up. No internet access on my computer again. Getting a new computer is looking reeeeal good about right now.

ARGH.

Well, more computer shenanigans are afoot, and I had to reformat again. Right now, I'm looking for anyone crazy enough to give me a line of credit, since I can't afford a new computer all at once. I'm sick and fucking tired of this infernal device. Also, I have my FTP password now, but whatever is grievously wrong with my computer makes damn near any downloaded program installer corrupt, and it won't let me get in through the browser, so I still can't update the website. Life is hard. At least I have Burnout 3.

Fifty-third Time's a Charm

Ran the destructive recovery thing gain, and this time, it finally tok, so I have a working computer again. Ahhhhhhhh. Now, the problem is that last night I had to spend hours uninstalling all that crap HP inflicted on my computer, reinstalling the sound card, the CD burner, the USB 2.0 card, and several of the programs I actually use. I still need to hunt down a bunch of other programs, including a very legal copy of Dreamweaver, reinstall the DVD burner, and reinstal that damn TV tuner card that didn't come with XP drivers, so I have to hunt them down on the internet somewhere. THEN, there's the 4 years or so worth of Windows updates. Wheeeeeeeeee. Also, I lost my password to update the website. Fuck.

More FUN.

Welp, the System Restore thingy didn;t work, possibly because of the recovery partition getting fudged up when the power went out. After a chain of events that's had me reformat and run that damn thing like ten times now, I finally got it to work, and got Windows to start running. Then, while uninstalling some of the many useless programs the fine folks at Hewlett-Packard provided, I get prompted to restart. What happens then?

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

FCUKFUCKFUCK. The exact same thing as before. So I'm going to try again, and if it doesn't work, I'll just do what I should have done and hunted down someone with an XP disk, so I can copy their System files. God damn, I hate computers so much.

Fun Update

Decided to go ahead and do the HP non-destructive system restore, which would only leave me with about 30 minutes of reinstalling hardware and a couple hours of Windows Updates between me and a fully-functional computer, without getting rid of all my files and crap. (at least I hope it doesn't kill all my files and crap. Even if it kills my programs, it;'s suppoised to at least keep "My Documents", one would think) So anyway, that takes like 30 minutes to do, and about 28 minutes in, the power goes out, so I have to do that all again. Fudge.

So on that note, here's your SONG OF THE DAY:

Anal Cunt - "Technology's Gay"

How many megs of ram do you have on your computer?
TECHNOLOGY'S GAY
Hey, why don't you check out my website at www dot -
TECHNOLOGY'S GAY
I was looking at the Star Trek Website, and I -
TECHNOLOGY'S GAY
Let me fax you my e-mail address
TECHNOLOGY'S GAY

Fun.

Well, had some fun goings-on with my computer, and it now tells me my WINDOWS/BLAH/SYSTEM directory is either missing or corrupt, and I need the XP disk to run setup and fix my crap. Problem is, I don't have that disk. Fart. So I'm computerless until we can hunt one down or I get impatient enough to run that HP system restore thing again. Life sucks.
Also, we're supposed to have the Storm of the Century of the Day here soon, with up to 90 mph winds supposedly, so the power's gonna go out anyway.

WHEEEEE~!

So since there won't be any real updates to the main site any time soon, I'll just entertain you folks with this little thing I meant to link to the main page soon: THIS IS WHERE THE POWER LIES.