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dragonoflife
11 May 2009 @ 01:48 pm
Saturday, my hard drive gave out. I had to go out and buy a new one, as well as install Vista, since the housemate lost not only my copy of XP, but every single other copy of XP in the house. Yeah, that was money I had to spend, you asshole.

Sunday [livejournal.com profile] tigerphoenix's computer arbitrarily stopped outputting to LCD screens; I had to break it down and rebuild it before it would work, after hauling a CRT out of storage.

Then she got sick.

I'm amused, vaguely, that people can't even PRETEND that things will ever get better or even turn around for me anymore, and instead just elect to stay utterly quiet and hope I go away.
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[identity profile] siliconrose.livejournal.com on May 11th, 2009 06:05 pm (UTC)
~prod, prod, prod~

Things WILL turn around. I know things are awful for you right now.

BTW, if you need a new copy of Windows in the future, drop me an email.
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[identity profile] dragonoflife.livejournal.com on May 11th, 2009 06:29 pm (UTC)
Well, at the time, I kind of couldn't. ^.^

What irritates me is that the XP install I had should still be perfectly functional, it's just the boot sector that was lost, since it was on the dead drive.

What irritates me further is the memory I bought as an upgrade not working.
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[identity profile] siliconrose.livejournal.com on May 11th, 2009 09:32 pm (UTC)
Heh. ...uh, yeah, good point. You don't have my number, do you?

...been there, done that. I've had technically bootable partitions sitting there just laughing at me before. I used to have that problem all the time when I was dual booting Linux.

I can imagine.
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[identity profile] dragonoflife.livejournal.com on May 11th, 2009 11:07 pm (UTC)
I don't actually know if I do, come to think of it. I may have one from about three generations of my phones ago on this one... I can't even begin to attest to its accuracy.

Still, I'm not entirely certain how you could've gotten me one expediently. ^.^
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[identity profile] cyfis.livejournal.com on May 11th, 2009 08:35 pm (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what you expect us to say. Since I have no practical solutions to offer (I can't magic your computers better, or make the bitch from the court case go away), "there there things will get better" seems a little hollow without any sort of solution to back it up.
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[identity profile] dragonoflife.livejournal.com on May 11th, 2009 11:09 pm (UTC)
I am completely in sympathy with what you say! It's more often the case that I have a discussion with people that'll go like this:

"It'll get better!"
"How? There's no legitimate way matters can improve."
"Uh."

My comment is amusement that things have gone on substantially long enough that people can't come back and say, "See, it's better now!"... so they got nothin'. :)
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[identity profile] pebele.livejournal.com on May 12th, 2009 02:36 am (UTC)
Really, there's no point in trying to comfort someone who doesn't want to be comforted.

Things are shit right now. They've been shit for awhile. I've been there. I've been pretty damn broken and beaten down. But things did get better. SO I guess I do believe that at some point things lighten up and then things get pretty fucking awesome.

But there's only so many times that I can commiserate and try to cheer you up. You obviously don't want to hear it, so why waste my breath?

Which isn't to say that I don't keep hoping for the best for you and keep you in my thoughts and shit.
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[identity profile] dragonoflife.livejournal.com on May 12th, 2009 02:50 am (UTC)
There's a difference between what I want to hear and what I'm able to believe!
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