It's true!
My hard drive gave up the ghost!
One minute I was intending to defrag the darn thing and the next it just, well--defragged!
It just froze in place.
I couldn't believe it! One minute it was doing fine; the next it was locked up tight and I was staring at a defrag command that never got to run--Poor thing!
So I hit the usual "Cntrl-Alt-Del" key and got--zilch! Not a damned thing!
I tried it again, adding a little more emphasis; "Cntrl-Alt-Del", dang ya'!
Nothing moved.
OK, sez I to myself. If you won't move, I'll just "off" y'er butt and restart. Windows always knows how to come back.
No, it doesn't. Oh, it fired up OK, but it wouldn't access Windows at all. Instead, I got an error message that said, "you can either start in Safe mode, or in Normal mode--click on your choice!"
So I did--clicked on "Normal" and I can tell you it definitely is NOT normal, 'cause when it came back, it said the same stupid error message!
No matter how many times I tried, it did the same thing! Not even in safe mode!
"AAAARRRRGGGHHH!" I screamed. "Honey, I fried my hard drive. It won't work any more!"
"It hasn't worked in years," she answered, unsympathetically.
I just couldn't handle TWO major problems at the same time, so I sat while all the air went out of my sails.
Finally I stirred myself and, admitting defeat, called for help.
Result?
$200 for troubleshooting.
$85 for a new hard drive (but a good one they said!)
$30 for recovering all of the programs and files on my old hard drive and transfering them to the new one.
$50 for additional memory.
So you can see it's sometimes pretty expensive to freeze the hard drive---no matter WHAT the wifey sez!
(I just wish the darn thing DID work---I'd show HER a thing or two! Hummph!)
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Resolutions and Why We Should Ignore 'em!
Well, the New Year is under way and all my resolutions are "in the can"---for all the good it will do!
The sad part of resolutions is, unless you write them down and leave the paper in a place where you can find it, they become useless, because you forget 'em!
I forgot mine, after the first of February, last year!
I'll probably forget my NEW ones along about 1 February THIS year, also!
So much for improving myself!
Actually, I haven't much to improve upon. At my age, I've done all the "improving" I'm ever going to do! Why worry about it any longer?
So I have two mugs of coffee in the morning just to get started! So what?
And, if I like to rail at the MSM news channels in the morning because they're stupid, why is that wrong?
After all, it's not like I'm a democrat who loves "all things government"!
One of my resolutions this year is to ignore the screams of the liberal socialists in the country who want to slap free speech on the internet and on the radio/TV with regulations.
What kind of regulations, you ask?
Well, how about the one that says you can't say anything about a candidate for office after 60 days prior to election? You know, the McCain-Feingold law?
Talk about the destruction of free speech! There, we have a law that was initiated by a Republican and overwhelmingly approved by Democrats. Bush signed it because he was a chicken--he didn't want to PO McCain!
I would ENJOY POing McCain! That idiot seems to think he can do no wrong and, whatever he does, will be approved by the voters.
I guess it will, as long as we have uneducated voters, or voters who simply vote party lines!
You eventually get what you deserve, I guess.
As a result, I guess it's OK to ignore, or totally forget, your resolutions. You'll be too busy trying to defend yourself this year against the stupid laws our government is trying to suppress us with.
A good example of the way people are suppressed is the passage of the many laws infringing the rights granted citizens by the 2nd amendment.
There's never been a good argument made for the controls slapped on firearms and the real reason for those controls is control of the populace! Just one more suppression of the freedoms of the citizens.
Forgetting your resolutions is one thing---forgetting to defend your rights from government encroachment, is another.
Next year, it might be too late!
The sad part of resolutions is, unless you write them down and leave the paper in a place where you can find it, they become useless, because you forget 'em!
I forgot mine, after the first of February, last year!
I'll probably forget my NEW ones along about 1 February THIS year, also!
So much for improving myself!
Actually, I haven't much to improve upon. At my age, I've done all the "improving" I'm ever going to do! Why worry about it any longer?
So I have two mugs of coffee in the morning just to get started! So what?
And, if I like to rail at the MSM news channels in the morning because they're stupid, why is that wrong?
After all, it's not like I'm a democrat who loves "all things government"!
One of my resolutions this year is to ignore the screams of the liberal socialists in the country who want to slap free speech on the internet and on the radio/TV with regulations.
What kind of regulations, you ask?
Well, how about the one that says you can't say anything about a candidate for office after 60 days prior to election? You know, the McCain-Feingold law?
Talk about the destruction of free speech! There, we have a law that was initiated by a Republican and overwhelmingly approved by Democrats. Bush signed it because he was a chicken--he didn't want to PO McCain!
I would ENJOY POing McCain! That idiot seems to think he can do no wrong and, whatever he does, will be approved by the voters.
I guess it will, as long as we have uneducated voters, or voters who simply vote party lines!
You eventually get what you deserve, I guess.
As a result, I guess it's OK to ignore, or totally forget, your resolutions. You'll be too busy trying to defend yourself this year against the stupid laws our government is trying to suppress us with.
A good example of the way people are suppressed is the passage of the many laws infringing the rights granted citizens by the 2nd amendment.
There's never been a good argument made for the controls slapped on firearms and the real reason for those controls is control of the populace! Just one more suppression of the freedoms of the citizens.
Forgetting your resolutions is one thing---forgetting to defend your rights from government encroachment, is another.
Next year, it might be too late!
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