Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered....

[thatotherperv]

oh. my. fucking. god.

so I have this spare laptop. or rather, it's my old laptop. I decided on Friday to have a go at making it useable in the interim while my other gets fixed. it's really gimpy. so very pathetic.

and fixing this thing has consumed my life for the last three days. haha. seriously, I've spent 18 hours of intensive TLC. greedy bitch. that's including 5 hours today of deleting 54,000 (yes, really) files 10 at a time (!) until she was happy enough to take it a thousand at a time. I discovered when trying to defrag yesterday that some of the files just weren't defragging...dug around and discovered a cache folder with a whole gig of fragmented files. except when I tried to delete them all at once, she coughed up a hairball and died. not that I blame her...a gig. jesus.

but yeah, so now it works at a reasonable pace. even if it does turn itself off at random because the battery's shot (did I mention it's so old they don't make the parts anymore?), and the letters u and r only work if I concentrate and use the force.

so I'm here. sort of. dunno how much I'll actually be around cuz...still gimpy.

(the subject line is a reference to the movie Labyrinth if you're staring at it and scratching yor heads. *high fives steph and casey*

Comments

[nyghtpet.livejournal.com]

You rock so hard. And I just put up a Jareth icon on msn! It's like you're psychic!

*high fives you back*

Hope your laptop stays being good and all!

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

*squish*

[vikingprincess]

*giggles* I was expecting maybe a Spike/Jareth crossover fic with that title line.... but so glad to hear you have a computer of sorts while the other is being repaired!

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

LOL. nah, I leave that to the experts. :)

yeah, a gimpy computer is better than no computer, my momma used to say. ok, no she didn't. but it's good sound wisdom :)

[vikingprincess]

particularly for 'net addicts like me. LOL

[so-sharlemaine.livejournal.com]

Oh, god...Mercury in retrograde is really effecting your computer equipment. I'd have slammed it into the wall by now :)

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

I knoowwwwwwwww. and on Friday, I deleted something that I thought crashed my whole system (it mysteriously started working again a few hours later). I had spent all day working on it. I seriously cried. *pets the computer who is behaving itself for the time being*

[laisserais]

hooray, you're back! i was having withdrawals. it'll be kinda funny to see what sort of lisp the sticky u and r -s will give you. does that mean you're gonna post fic? *bats eyelashes*

how's it all going, with the settling in?

here's one for you: "You don't need two ears." :P

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

haha, my icon kisses your icon!

lol, I posted fic for you *pets*

you are not alone!

[dfasgiles.livejournal.com]

1. got the labyrinth ref. david bowie dancing around in tight pants and awesome makeup, singing gorgeous music? HEL-lo! not to mention her gown in the dream sequence....

2. my desktop computer got eaten alive remotely by the NazisMicrosoft, so I've been limping along with a laptop whose mouse only works when it feels like it--even when an external mouse is hooked up (see? the cursor just went zipping across the top of the monitor, wch most likely means i've lost my mouse for the rest of the night, dammit)--and it won't be fixed until my friend's friend, who is a certified dell technician (this is a dell), can locate a new system board, as this is a matter of loose circuitry.

I do finally have my desktop back, but just when I would have been able to start working again and was looking forward to it, they fired my ass. fuckers.

so, anyway, just wanted to let you know that you are not alone in your computer woes. have an empathy hug! *HUG*

Re: you are not alone!

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

eep

[kitty-poker1.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Technology is wonderful when it works and a total pain in the arse when it doesn't. Good luck with nursing along Old Gimpy. At least you're not completely out of touch and hopefully won't be. *hugs*

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

hahahahahahahaa, Old Gimpy. I love you.

[toobusy2write.livejournal.com]

Damn. I can definitely sympathize. Hope the comp stuff gets straightened out soon. *hugs*

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

me too! thanks :) btw, I love your icon. such a great moment

[incasink.livejournal.com]

I feel for you. It's not so much my computer as it is my interwebs. It just shits itself sometimes and I can't stand to wait around for it to load.

And Labyrinth rocks my sox.

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

omg, indiana jones. wheee!

I love the labyrinth. awesomeness. and yeah, computers suck dude. except I can't live without them.