Sitting around in another office...

[fajrdrako]

...Because my computer died. One of our computer administrators was around, and decided to update my Windows. The upgrade failed. The hard drive killed itself, or at least went into an unresponsive coma. Since I am not our computer expert, and he is, I'm leaving him to deal with it. He says my hard drive has serious physical problems. Okay, get me a new computer! No one listens when I complain about its quirks and inadequacies. But right now it's totally nonfunctional.

So I snuck into another office, and I'm working on the bookkeeper's computer, since she isn't here. This is handy enough, but it doesn't make it easy to get any of my work done. She doesn't even have a telephone.

Dare I work on my story-in-progress?

Better not wander the net for pictures of David Tennant and John Barrowman.

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[commodorified.livejournal.com]

So I am thinking of coming early, bearing the stuff for fruit salad, and assembling it there, because getting to Hartman's and then coming back here is a bit mad. Does that work? And if it does, when do you usually get home, when is good?

Or I may just grab one of those predone fruit plates.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So I am thinking of coming early, bearing the stuff for fruit salad, and assembling it there

Sounds great. Normally I get home about 5:30, but I have to stop somewhere to pick up the chicken or whatever, so it might be a few minutes later. Or earlier, if the traffic is good or if I walk (which tends to be faster) or whatever.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Hartman's has good chickens; shall I get there for 5 and you can come find me?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

If I walk home (and since it looks like a nice afternoon I probably will), Hartman's is way out of my way. I'll probably go to the Loeb or Loblaw's on Rideau.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Hopefully no creepy doctors or pizza girls perished in the upgrade attempt... also hope your boss did not kiss you with the vague excuse of reviving you!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I didn't see any creepy doctors and if I saw a pizza girl I might have attacked her for hte pizza myself, since I'm hungry.

Alas, the computer is still as dead as any Japanese cyberneticist could be.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

How frustrating for you, especially since you had work computer problems not long ago!

I hope it wasn't a Vista upgrade...

Haven't heard from you re Greek salad -- hope it's OK. My home phone is dead thanks to Bell incompetence (will rant later). Email still works or post here.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Greek salad is great. Perfect.

No, it wasn't a Vista upgrade. It was just a computer-killing clean-up. Likely related to the computer problems you recall from not long ago. That was the first gasp of a dying hard drive. This, it seems, was the last gasp.


Going home now. Picking up food en route. See you very soon!

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

here is a transatlantic virtual kiss of live for your computer from a non cybernetic girl.

All your plans for well considered transfer suddenly out of the window. Here is for hoping you had your stories and other important stuff back upped plus a fast and cheap and reliable alternative presenting itself to you. I am giving you Ein, put his interface is, though cute, less than practical.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

here is a transatlantic virtual kiss of live for your computer from a non cybernetic girl.

Thank you! The surgeon will be in tomorrow - Rafael is bringing me a new hard drive. Raven says they're quick to install. But I know darn well I'll then have to install windows, and that's never quick.

Here is for hoping you had your stories and other important stuff back up

No stories on the computer at work, thank goodness. Some online and accessible from work - and therefore safe. I did find one of my stories yesterday (an R-rated one) on the server where I'd left it by accident. Which means the back-up tapes of the Ottawa Little Theatre have been preserving it over and over for however long it's been since I left it there. Oops! I hope no one ever looks.

I'm hoping the theatre will conclude that I need a new computer a.s.a.p, and that they get me a better one.

[laitosto.livejournal.com]

...must be something in the air.

My work hard-drive did a slow death spiral going over a week. First my e-mail client failed, then MS Office, then my terminal/FTP client, blah, blah, blah. After a new HD was installed, the power source failed. I now have a completely new (i.e. "loaner") computer, but there has been a problem adding me back to the network. This has been going on for two weeks now.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh no! My condolences. My computer hadn't entirely recovered from its crash and loss of Windows a while back - butit wasn't a slow decay, it was more or less working all right till it decided to implode yesterday.

And the while knight who was supposed to be bringing in a new hard drive for me at 10:30 am hasn't turned up yet and it's past eleven.... [Taps foot impatiently.]

I hope this isn't contagious!