Slept about two hours last night. Calling it a victory because I haven’t been able to stay in bed to sleep at night for over a week now.<\/p>\n
About 3AM, I was perusing the intarwebz when my computer screen went black.<\/p>\n
And there it sat.<\/p>\n
I had to do a hard shut down and restart (it wanted Safe Mode) and it took 3 tries restarting to get it functional again.<\/p>\n
Things seemed to be running fine. Then I tried opening a game. Brown, wonky screen and a loud buzzing noise as it locked up in the middle of playing music. It sat for a few minutes, shut itself down and restarted. Again, wanting Safe Mode.<\/p>\n
Shut down, restart.<\/p>\n
I started copying some crucial files to my external hard drive. Then made the mistake of opening Firefox to pass the time while files copied.<\/p>\n
BLACK SCREEN.<\/p>\n
The light on the external HD kept flashing as though it was still copying files, but I had no idea if such was the case because my computer was just sitting there with a black screen. I let it sit for a long time, seeing if anything would happen and eventually did another hard shut down.<\/p>\n
I started it up in Safe Mode and copied a considerable amount of crucial files to my external HD. Things copied much faster in SM than they did in normal mode. Bonus there I suppose.<\/p>\n
It sat running in Safe Mode until Bob came into the loft after getting ready for work. I regaled him with my woes, he told me everything would be okay. And after I copied most of the files I wanted to, I restarted into normal mode and got THIS MESS<\/a><\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n The picture doesn’t really do it justice. The colors were a lovely, muted pink and brown and the pinstripes were perfect.<\/p>\n Bright sides.<\/p>\n I can find them.<\/p>\n Which brings back memories of THIS<\/a><\/i><\/b> and THIS<\/a><\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n I’d post the pictures here<\/i>, but I’m not running my<\/i> computer and can’t remember how the hell to set up the FTP client.<\/p>\n But those are the lovely screens I used to get with my old laptop when the graphics card died a slow and painful death.<\/p>\n I’m not sure when the problem officially started. It has been stuttering in iTunes for a few weeks. Music is playing and it skips and sticks like a bad CD player or a scratched record. My old computer did the same thing for a long time before its inevitable death.<\/p>\n Last night I’d brought my computer downstairs to use while Bob played a game on the PS3 and as I was plugging it in, it slid sloooooooowly<\/i> to the floor off the ottoman. Barely a foot off the floor, but still fuckadamnduck it hit the floor with an ominous THUD.<\/p>\n Then when I took it upstairs and put it back on my desk at bedtime, plugging it into the surge protector on the wall, the outlet snapped with a big blue spark.<\/p>\n So…<\/p>\n My computer may or may not be completely fucked.<\/p>\n We should be able to salvage all the important stuff if it can’t be otherwise fixed, but I won’t know until Bob has time to sit down and look at it.<\/p>\n Hopefully tonight.<\/p>\n I hope.<\/p>\n In the meantime I’m using this…other<\/i> laptop that we have and while it’s functional, I hate it because it’s NOT MY<\/U> COMPUTER<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n I’m doing a fine job at feeling sorry for myself over it all.<\/p>\n I installed iTunes on this thing and ripped one CD. I’m sure you can guess who it is.<\/p>\n Also, apparently this thing only has one speaker that only plays the left channel. Because obviously.<\/p>\n Platyduck pretty much says it all<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Slept about two hours last night. Calling it a victory because I haven’t been able to stay in bed to sleep at night for over a week now. About 3AM, I was perusing the intarwebz when my computer screen went black. And there it sat. I had to do a hard shut down and restart (it wanted Safe Mode) and it took 3 tries restarting to get it functional again. Things seemed to be running… Keep reading…FML…<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,52,51,109,6,85],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-because-i-am-a-fucking-adult","category-haphazard-tirades","category-im-about-to-start-hucking-rocks-at-people","category-technology-hates-me","category-this-is-my-brain-and-welcome-to-it","category-yes-i-am-bitchy-nobody-said-you-had-to-read-this-shit","tag-225","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6733,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/6733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getalifebooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}