I am not very happy about having to replace it. I mean the replacement part is fine just as long as it doesn't come with an expense part. However, I don't know how to get a pc for free, so tonight I am going shopping. It's essential that I have something at home so that I can get on-line and work from home if needed. Thankfully my on-call week was last week or I would have been in a real pickle. I would have had to come back to the office, check out a laptop and then go back home. So yes it can always be worse.
The other thing I am not happy about is that I will be leaving behind Windows 7 and that to me is HUGE. My data is all backed up safely online thanks to my Crashplan subscription. It is more of the fact that this is very ill timed. Setting up Windows 8 will surley not be a fun experience but I know I can do it. Then I get the fun task of looking up key codes, serial numbers, locating media, etc. It's like I need a day just to get my digital life back on track. I actually thought about taking vacation but there is much brewing for the rest of the week, I think it would be a bad idea.
My plan is to buy the machine tonight, get it home and unboxed, hooked up and at least get it to the desktop. Install Anti-Virus Software and probably call it a night. Yeah, well if I get that far I will want to keep going. I am also buying a hard drive enclosure, so that I can transfer data from the old drive. It's just a sector that has the OS on it for booting that is bad. I believe the rest of the disk is good.
There is a program that can attempt to fix the drive, it's called Spinwrite and its written by Steve Gibson over at grc.com. He's a great guy and the program has saved a lot of people from the very mess I am in. However, you buy it - download - run and then it can literally be days or weeks before the program finishes. It's very miticulous and because of that is why it takes so long. I kind of knew this day would get here sooner or later and well frankly it's just time to upgrade. Faster processor, better memory, larger hard drive and of course after I get everything loaded it will be as slow as molases, but welcome to the world of Windows, that is the norm.
I picked up BLU's remains last night and was fine. I almost broke down when I was pulling into the drive way but I caught myself. The box they gave me represented what I was shown but it looked much bigger in the photo. If I get curious only a screw seperates me from his remains, I will probably look at some point. For now he loved to spend time in the living room, so that is where I put him, right below the TV.
BLU was the cat that figured out how to turn the TV on when we wouldn't wake up. He would turn it on, then it would wake up both me and my late partner. Once we caught on to his trick we just started turning the volume down he would still turn it on but it lost the magic touch. Soon he gave it up, but I still to this day turn the volume down before I turn it off. I was putting away my shoes last night and realized yeah the only reason why they are in the closet is because I was afraid he would pee on them. Well now that Mr. Big Boy has his problem I am not taking any chances. Shoes are expensive! Then again what isn't expensive theese days.
We have had a huge technical blunder here and email doesn't work for 1/2 of the company. The phones have been ringing off the hook, because everyone lives and dies by their e-mail. I get it, all we can tell them is it's being worked on. They don't like to hear that, they want a time estimate... okay how about before Thanksgiving but no later than New Years Day. I wonder how far that would fly.
One of my coworkers discovered he was the only one logged into the phone system, so the fat fuck sends out an e-mail with the boss included.. hey I am the only one on the phones, I could use some help. Yeah well what about the multiple times it's happened to me. Did I yell and scream like a little girl? Did I run to mommy telling on everyone? Nope, just took it like a man. I didn't like it but I didn't cry about it either. As you can tell I am not a fan of his. He's got a lot of knowledge but social skills he lacks plus he says very hurtful things but he thinks he is joking. Like one time I called and he said I knew you were going to call me because everytime you call my skin crawls. Uh, excuse me? That didn't sit very well with me, but I let it go.
Ah the phone is chirping, I have to go setup for a meeting. Another lunch hour cut short. Guess what I am doing over the weekend? Yep, working on the PC more than likley. So much for getting away, but maybe I can pull off my breakfast stunt with some sucess. They say that bad things happen in 3's well I have suffered 2 and we can skip what ever will be #3. I think my dues are more than paid up.
Talk with you peeps later. Happy Hump(ing) day! :)
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