{"id":388,"date":"2008-06-23T00:39:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2008-06-23T00:39:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T04:39:52","slug":"laptop-crashed-just-another-day-oh-wait-my-other-laptop-and-desktop-aint-working-either","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/laptop-crashed-just-another-day-oh-wait-my-other-laptop-and-desktop-aint-working-either\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop crashed. Just another day? oh wait my other laptop and desktop ain&#8217;t working either"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning and for the first time in a long time, too long for that matter, I was delighted to see the time on my watch, it was 8:15am.\u00a0 Now, for the majority of people, specially on a sunday, there wouldn&#8217;t be anything extraordinary about that; however when you take into account that I, willingly, went to bed around 12:15am last night, that equates to 8 hrs of uninterrupted, delightful, and much needed sleep.\u00a0 What could make things better?\u00a0 I just laid in bed, smiled in disbelief I just had 8 hours of sleep, and I let myself fall back asleep for another 1 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 I turned on the tube, watched some tv, decided I was bored, I started to message people to see if they wanted to go out and play outside.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get a possitive response from anyone of the peeps I tried to convince to go out and play.\u00a0 I guess it is a good thing that I always expect to end up doing things on my own anyways.<\/p>\n<p>I received a phone call from my sister around 11am to remind me that we are supposed to get together and go watch a movie, the hulk if you cared to know, and that I shouldn&#8217;t leave the house if I didn&#8217;t plan to be back for the 2:30pm showing.\u00a0 Sure, that gives me &#8220;plenty&#8221; of time to still get some time to play outside but by this time I had neither a) brush my teeth b) taken a shower c) fixed the bearings on one of the wheels on my rollerblades ( I will never buy replacement wheels from K2, their in-line skates are awesome but their replacement wheels I am not impressed with at all) of those taks a and b would&#8217;ve been a quick fix but I wasn&#8217;t about to take a quick shower.\u00a0 There is nothing better, to me, than taking a long shower- and I mean long, somewhere in the neighborhood of 20min+), after I&#8217;ve had a very good night sleep.\u00a0 I ended up not going anywhere, my rollerblades are still acting up and I don&#8217;t have a working bike.<\/p>\n<p>I sat outside for a few minutes, just taking in the nice weather-even if it were a bit too hot for some people.\u00a0 I watched a rack of people go by riding their bikes.\u00a0 It made me want to go take their bikes from them.\u00a0 Now, that is not to say that I would go and just take a bike from anyone, I wouldn&#8217;t take a bike from someone that rides his bike often, often enough to merit have a bike either as a means of transportation or recreation that is, but I would take a bike from someone that has too much money, buys a really nice bike that ends up sitting somewhere at home unattended, or just has a bike to say that he has a bike.\u00a0 Strangely enough, I know people like that, I wish I would&#8217;ve taken his bike last time I rode it, he would&#8217;ve never missed it.\u00a0 I decided I was better off eating another popsicle while staring at my feet instead.<\/p>\n<p>Met my sister, her husband, my cousin, and a friend of my sister&#8217;s at movie theaters and since it was still early we decided to get lunch.\u00a0 We went to Moby&#8217;s, a kabob joint, and we ordered enough food for a freaking platoon.\u00a0 I have no self control, I ate too much, I am glad I don&#8217;t find their food spectacular otherwise I would&#8217;ve had some more.\u00a0 As I walked out of Moby&#8217;s I suddenly had a thought running through my head &#8220;what if the movie sucks? can you sit in that theather for 2hrs + without walking out?.&#8221;\u00a0 Luckily for me, I found a cure for that rather quickly.\u00a0 I walked into the ABC store across the street and grabbed 2 small bottles of vodka so I could spike up my drink at the movie theater.<\/p>\n<p>The movie turned out to be a lot better than I expected to be, in fact I&#8217;d go as far as saying that it was entertaining.\u00a0 The hulk wears a Polar heart rate monitor.\u00a0 When I looked at his wrist, and I heard the beeping coming from his &#8220;watch&#8221; I knew exactly what it was, the sound was only too familiar.<\/p>\n<p>I came home with the prospect of starting writing a paper for school, a paper that should&#8217;ve been turned in last semester, however my teacher was nice enough to give me an incomplete and let me turn it in late.\u00a0 I turned on my laptop with the enthusiasm a cow shows as it is artificially inseminated.\u00a0 I waited for my desktop to load its icons but it was taking way longer than usual, I assumed something went whacky and it was eating up all my ram, I proceeded to do a forced shutdown of it.\u00a0 &#8220;Windows is shutting down&#8221; message\/screen stared at me for over 5 minutes, I had no patience left, I forced the shutdown by holding the power button.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the laptop didn&#8217;t like that, this had happened once before, my linux ninja friend DizkoDan helped me fix it then.\u00a0 Apparently &#8220;one or more sectors on the hard drive are corrupted&#8221; or something like that.\u00a0 I should&#8217;ve changed the hard drive earlier, before it crapped out, I know sit here with a hard drive full data I need which I might not be able to retrieve.<\/p>\n<p>Went to worstbuy and looked for an IDE laptop hard drive, they had only one, they wanted $129 for a 120GB hard drive.\u00a0 I almost peed my pants laughing, I left the store knowing I could find it cheaper somewhere else.\u00a0 I drove to Microcenter and found a 250GB EIDE drive for $109 twice as big as the one at worstbuy, and even cheaper still, now the cheapest I could&#8217;ve found the drive for but I was done shopping, I wanted a quick fix, I bought the damn drive and an 8gb flash drive, sometimes instant gratification merits the extra money spent.<\/p>\n<p>New drive is installed and most of the old software has been installed.\u00a0 I still need to figure out why the computer tells me that the drive is only 120gb rather than 250gb but I am happy it is running at this time at least.\u00a0 I hate updating winblows.<\/p>\n<p>I had french onion soup again tonight, I had forgotten how much a love that stuff.\u00a0 I think it has to do with the copious amounts of onions you can find in it!\u00a0 it is basically just beef broth and onions pretty much.\u00a0 I never realized how easy it is to make, in fact when I was done making it I looked at myself in the mirror and thought &#8220;man, you are retard!! you&#8217;ve been paying five dollars for a bowl of soup that doesn&#8217;t even cost 50 cents to make&#8221;\u00a0 I wanted to kick my own ass, sometimes I wish I had that ability, I&#8217;ve tried slapping myself but somehow it doesn&#8217;t carry the same weight, it does make you look like a crazy person if perform in public though.<\/p>\n<p>I sat at here alone, again, playing with my phone, debating if I should make a phone call or not.\u00a0 Who am I going to call? nobody cares to hear me whine anyways, no one should be put through that hassle anyways.\u00a0 I shot a text message to someone I know wont respond, she is too busy having fun in Florida, besides she only talks to me when she seems to need\/want something, there seems to be a theme there.<\/p>\n<p>I received two text messages tonight, neither one of them from a living entity, the alert system at school informed me of &#8220;dangerous weather&#8221; in my area.<\/p>\n<p>While flipping through the channels earlier, stupid rain kept me a prisoner in my own home, I watched George Lopez&#8217;s show.\u00a0 &#8220;Depression? we don&#8217;t suffer from that, that is a white, rich people&#8217;s disease.&#8221;\u00a0 Needless to say that it made me smile.<\/p>\n<p>My parents left two days ago, or is it three?\u00a0 I miss having them around.<\/p>\n<p>I received an email from my brother earlier, he sent pictures of my parents.\u00a0 They seem to be having fun, I know my brother welcomes the opportunity to have them around, he hasn&#8217;t seen them in almost a year.\u00a0 My brother says he is lonely sometimes, I&#8217;d like to sympathize a little more but I have different views on what &#8220;lonely&#8221; means, sometimes I wish I could just stop thinking the way I do.\u00a0 I guess I get it, I just don&#8217;t understand it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I spent my lunch hour at the bike shop.\u00a0 Performance is having their anniversary sale.\u00a0 I looked at so many pretty bikes, yes I used the term pretty to describe a bike, I should not do that, I can&#8217;t afford any of them.\u00a0 I was almost half-tempted to take one out for a test-ride and never coming back, somehow it didn&#8217;t seem like the greatest idea.<\/p>\n<p>I found a nearly new bike on craigslist for $250 the owner claims to have only about 20 miles on it.\u00a0 I almost bought it, I should&#8217;ve bought it, I was waiting for someone else to respond to an earlier inquiry to sell me his bike.\u00a0 The bike I almost bought was a fixie, I am really looking for a mountain bike, but for the price and quality of bike I was going to get, I can live without gears, my fatass needs the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>I found another bike on craigslist for $250.\u00a0 This is a mountain bike, it even comes with disc brakes.\u00a0 I might email the guy today, apparently he is moving oversees again and needs to get rid off his bikes.\u00a0 Actually, there is more than just the two bikes I listed here but I am a bit picky on what I want on a bike, perhaps not the best when working with a very limited budget hah!\u00a0 Maybe I ought to look at what the salvation army has in stock.<\/p>\n<p>I am still bored, restless, and way too sober.\u00a0 Sometimes I think I drink only to keep myself from being able to get in the car and drive somewhere that I know will get me in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Winblows has been doing the same god&#8211;m update for the past 30 minutes.\u00a0 I have no patience left, I have no desire to write anymore.\u00a0 Nothing to see, moving on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning and for the first time in a long time, too long for that matter, I was delighted to see the time on my watch, it was 8:15am.\u00a0 Now, for the majority of people, specially on a sunday, there wouldn&#8217;t be anything extraordinary about that; however when you take into account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iselloranges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}