Cowabunga

[darkemeralds]

Okay.

I just reformatted my whole hard disk, got rid of Windows altogether, and installed Ubuntu as the sole operating system.

Staring at the Blue Screen of Geeky Diagnostics was not how I'd planned to spend my Saturday, but I'm back in business (knock on wood) as Sunday tiptoes in. I'm restoring about 20 gigabytes of My Documents right now. So far so good.

I hate computer problems, but I'll say this: deciding at 10:00 p.m. on a frustrating Saturday to just chuck the whole damn operating system (which, by the way, accounted for something like $200 of the cost of this computer...grrr...piece of crap...) had a damn-the-torpedoes feeling to it that was kind of exciting.

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[lamentables]

\o/

I am impressed by your fortitude

[darkemeralds]

God, me too!

Desperation is an amazing motivator. The prospect of being without decent internet connectivity for more than a few non-sleep hours makes me really twitchy.

[lamentables]

*nods*

I do not have have geeky computer skillz and get rather despairing whenever my computers are sick.

[darkemeralds]

Thanks to Twitter, I happen to know that my regular computer repair guy is in San Diego at present, on vacation. This was an additional inducement to industry on my part!

Also--late Saturday. Of course. That's when it breaks.

[kis]

I know exactly how you feel. It's like losing the power of speech and thought at the same time.

[darkemeralds]

Yes! Or like being cut off from the Borg Cube.

[kis]

Now I understand how terrifying the threat of Excommunication must be/have been.

[darkemeralds]

Wow. The term takes on a whole new meaning here, doesn't it?

*looks around at ISP overlords skittishly*

[writerscramp]

Coined during the Infamous Attic Renovation:

"Necessity may be the mother of Invention, but Desperation is its drunken stepfather."

[darkemeralds]

Hah! That's perfect. He comes in late at night and [brow]beats you into finishing. I know that guy!