February 24, 2012

  • All the World Hath Become My Enemy, and Recapitulation

    All the trouble started two days ago, when my computer abruptly froze and alerted me that something had gone wrong, and that it would restart itself in a minute.

    There was no "cancel" button.

    So it did that, and when it restarted, it froze and wouldn't do anything at all. Not even start the ctrl+alt+delete task manager! I forced it off and restarted it again, and this time it worked as normal.

    Yesterday, it did it again. But this time, several restarts didn't fix the issue. I put the thing aside and decided that maybe it would work tomorrow.

    So today, I restarted it over and over again, and each time, it froze after about a minute. I learned that if I used ctrl+alt+delete as quickly as possible when I first logged on, I could get to the task manager, and then if I forcibly stopped Steam, it wouldn't crash right away. This time, it didn't crash until a couple minutes later, when I tried to post on the SetMao forum. I used my couple minutes to hurriedly open file transfer and dump my senior project and my favorite game files into my Zoo account.

    It could be worse. At least I know I'm not going to lose my senior project.

    Anyways, I've moved back into the Zoo (with my toothbrush and my blanket), and I'm ready to start blogging again. Half of Miscarriage of Justice Week, I was out of town, and the other half I spent trying to compress a week's work in half. Serious posts customarily take an hour or three to write, and so when I didn't really have the time, I put out sub-optimal essays. At the end of it, I guess I was just tired of blogging, and then I didn't think about it for a while.

    Life, life is terrible. I guess a computer breaking is probably among the worst of things that are reasonably likely to happen. Surely there are much more things, but they, I think, aren't nearly so likely. My computer has been through a great deal, but it's been pretty stable, so this comes as a great big surprise, and I'm not happy about it at all.