A Slow, Horrible Death
It’s not that I haven’t had anything to post lately, but my computer has been dying a slow, awful death. I have a trusty HP Pavilion DV1000. Well, not too trusty anymore.
The hard drive is failing. It actually makes a sound like a marble being dropped on tile. I had to do some amazing trickery just to get it to reboot, much less start Windows. I won’t go into the long story, but it took me 3 days just to get it limping along until I get another computer.
So now each program takes 2-3 minutes to start, and I back up my laptop to my external drive every chance I can get. I was really lucky to transfer a lot of critical files to my external before the crash happened.
My wife once called me and asked me about her computer. She asked, “Is it a bad thing when blue smoke comes out of your monitor?” This hard drive failure was kind of like that. Blegh.
Anyway, new ‘puter coming tomorrow from Dell. It’ll take me a while to transfer all my stuff to it, and then it’ll be off to the races. Posts will be spotty until then, but thanks for your patience.
I now proceed to post this, keeping my fingers crossed that it’ll work. Yeesh…
