Both my day and my new computer seems to start out well.
Actually, my day took a noise dive with the computer.
Ron was there when I got in. We talked, we chated, I showed my computer that was still trying to load windows since yesterday at 4pm.
He gave me Clayton's computer since he left for greener pastures. It was going along well, until I tried to add my cards to it. They won't fit. The new computer is a small form factor, so a normal size card is about 1/4 to big to fit. So I can't do any movie digatizing, and I can't do any mass cd burning since I can't get it's firewire card into the computer also. Then I tried to copy over some data from my failed hard drive using this kit, but the computer couldn't see it, so I'm getting to grips with kissing all of that good bye, and at the same time, reminding myself that I did do a back up 3 weeks or so back.
So I started to think of this as a temp computer until I either get scaled down cards, or normal size pc. I had to install a few peices of software for me to use it in the mean time. I first did an update of the AV. It didn't really work, and while it was it's second try and I check out one if the resions why it said it didn't work the first time. No space left on the HD. Ok.. went to check it out. I had a gig of space left from a 32 gig drive. What was on here.?? I found 11 gig's of ripped DVD's. Now, if you have ever copied a DVD to your hard drive you know how much one can take up. I had 4 movies. Then there was 3 gigs of MP3, and another 7 of , get this, porn movies. Full or shorts I don't know. I didn't play any. I did move them all off the computer, incase it was one of the guys who we just hired who put them there, and they weren't left from Clayton. At least I don't think so.
I then uninstalled the things that I didn't need, and started to add my own. Then just when I was about finished, I ran a temp clean up program that I've been using for over a year at least, and in the end Windows told me that some files were taken or replaced and it needed the winxp cd with sp1, I couldn't find it, and I was all by myself. I thought that it would come back and ask me again after I restarted, or maybe it would be ok. I've gotten that message once before, and I'm still working fine. Granted, I don't remember if I was able to get the cd or not, but I was thinking not earyler today.
Then then after that, every time I put a cd in the drive, my computer would just quit working. It would't give me the blue screen, it wouldn't give my error messages. Everything would just stop exept my mouse for 2 mins then it would stop moving. That happed 4 times at least, and one wasn't caused by a cd. I couldn't work like that. So I tired everything I could, then it came down to doing an XP repair using the xp install disk. I was suppose to just check to see if this cd could do it, but I pushed the button. I was suppose to delete a file first, but I forgot. When I came out of the repair, I just had a blue screen and the mouse. It didn't work. So now I had to do a clean install. I formatted the hard drive, and installed WinXPSP2 at 8pm. Two hours until closing. Those two hours went by really quickly. I had one break from my computer woes. I had to find out why sound from the VCR wasn't coming out the TV. Not to mension also from the computer. The computer one was easy. It's was the VCR one that had me scraching my head. I spent like 15 mins tracing wires and going on a hunch and succeading. *smiling* I was very happy with myself. Then I dusted myself off and went back to my computer.
Then I came home.
Other than all that, I didn't get to pick up the cloths last night when I got home because it rained right after I got home, then it rained again before I woke up and for and hour after I was wake. I cleaned up a bit, washed about 5 or so things. I wasn't going to hurt my back before work. And I juced about 10 limes for my sister. I put out trash. Dumped water from the trash can my sister left outside two days of rain ago.
At 7 or so pm she called me from Nevis telling me that they were going to come over and 8pm boat. She then called me at 9 saying that they were still in Nevis. The boat was waiting for football players. A match was going on, so they were waiting for it to finish before they left. So I ended up getting home before they did. I got to print out her flyer, but when she came home she bearly looked at it because I already told her what it said over the phone. She said she liked it then ran to connect the laptop up in her room.
Nika had a snack then went to bed about 11:30. She was all happy to see I. Robot, but she had to go bed for school tomorrow.
Jhodie was suppose to do some washing before she went to sleep, but she's asleep now. I just went in and saved her laptop from a pending fall off her bed.
Ok.. I'm going to go sit down and get comfy and watch the end of YellowStone-Super Volcaino. Well that's not the name, but that is what it is about. I might be a bit too late. It looks like it's finishing up now. Oh, just saw the name, SuperVolcaino. I was mostly right. :) It's a sad movie. It's like the other one where the globe warming caused NY to flood, then the upper Americas to frezze. Grim look at what could happen.
Ok, I'm going to try and do a spell check, but this computer doesn't have MS Office on it, so don't expect too much. I'm waiting for my new parts before I give it the taxing job of runing MS Office. *grin*.. Ok.. going... Spell check in an hour or so.
Night, or morning as the case may be.
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