Summer Adventures: Day Eighty-Three.

Saturday, July 18th, 2009.

Let me tell you a tragic story. true, tragic, totally terrible.

I woke up this morning/afternoon/12:30ish and went to check out what had happened while i was sleeping, i.e.: Facebook, Twitter, The Blog. And i found that my computer was dead. Now, not just dead. But really dead. It said there was a failure to read the memory address and that i needed to reseat the memory. wtf? i know right? So there i was. Sitting. With a dead laptop sitting in front of me. No idea what to do. All of my work stuff is on there, sermons, game ideas, t-shirt designs, everything. And like a dink i hadn’t backed anything up in months. So stupid right? So i was frustrated. Nate will attest to my frustration and coincidental lack of emotional response to anything.

I checked out what was going on through the dell support website and on the dell support phone line. I wasn’t under warranty so they couldn’t help me over the phone. But the website sucked and only sort of told me to remove the memory and put it back in, so i did. It didn’t work. Dang. I tried numerous times to no success. Dang. This was bad. I was going to lose everything. all my music, pictures, random things. all gone. I was frustrated. I considered throwing the laptop out the window.

If my laptop was dead i would be F.U.B.A.R.ed. I can’t afford a new laptop. let alone afford to lose everything that was on there. I was heading to the Yukon the next day and was planning on taking my computer with me. I also needed to put music on Beth’s Zune which she so graciously lent me since the old ipod is still out of commission. (i put all of her music on my computer so i could replace it when i get home. Now i have an influx of Justin Timberlake, Kelly Clarkson, and Hinder. Thanks baby. But seriously, it’s going to be a life saver having this Zune thing to listen to with my Ballin headphones.)

Nate convinced me to forgo the out-the-window method of computer repair and took me to a computer repair place. I explained the problem and they tried everything i already had. BUT, in their infinite wisdom knew that there was a second piece of memory underneath my laptop’s keyboard. Sneaky computer, always hiding things from me. So they popped that one out and found it to be dead. So, now my computer is running on one third of it’s original power as the one that had gone bad was the 2 gig piece and the good one was 1 gig. Dang.

It’s all good though because at least my computer is alive. When i get home i’ll buy some new RAM to put in this bad boy.

While Nate and i were out, i got him to stop at the fedex store so i could ship off my ipod. But it was closed. dang. Beth’s going to do it this week for me.

Well, i’m heading off to the Yukon. It’s going to be sweet. Beth and Amy will take good care of you for me. I hope. Yeah, they’re going to do great, talking about Hugh Jackman and Gerard Butler. Or maybe the “awesome” hotness of Johnny Depp. Gag. The only thing is that i don’t know if anyone is going to blog about Fred Durst while i’m away. The man needs his attention!

This Yukon trip is the second chance for Dale to man up and get his BMW into my parking lot. C’mon man. I’m your favourite little brother! Darin + BMW =I hope you all have a good week without me. I know i’ll miss you.