I finally got into the BIOS and it doesn't think I have a hard drive OR an optical drive, which explains why it doesn't see the Windows 7 startup DVD.
God damn it.
And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
shrift - Apr 01, 2015 6:05:56 pm PDT #23446 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Calli - Apr 01, 2015 6:13:44 pm PDT #23447 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yay, amych!
Boo, shrift!
My upstairs neighbor has been serving delicious cocktails (emphasis on the plural there), so that's all I've got. And only autocorrect has gotten me this far, to be honest. That and a lot of back spacing.
-t - Apr 01, 2015 6:16:32 pm PDT #23448 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Lime next time, Ginger. Now that I see how many lemons it took to get a tablespoon of zest, I'm not sure I have enough limes, anyway
[don't listen to the scary computer talk little laptop. You just keep on working, don't think about how old you are]
shrift - Apr 01, 2015 6:43:47 pm PDT #23449 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I have given up for the night. Now I am drinking vodka and watching Hulu on my Chromebook while I research new computers. I can try new cables, but I'm pretty familiar with the sound of a hard drive going bad.
Strix - Apr 01, 2015 6:59:41 pm PDT #23450 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Me, too. Vodka with raspberry limeade, and a short show to hie me off to sleepland. I'm dead on my fee-- ass.
Consuela - Apr 01, 2015 8:48:03 pm PDT #23451 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yay amych!
I like saying Maundy Thursday. It sounds so exotic. There's another name for it isn't there?
Holy Thursday, in my family. I'm not celebrating, since I just baked a pie to bring to a friend's house for dinner. Woops.
And now to bed and now to bed.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2015 2:37:53 am PDT #23452 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
IMO a lot of workplaces have a lot of unnecessary stress culture. Yours sounds like one of them.
That is definitely true. I would have taken a random day off at some point in the last couple of weeks, at any other job I've had. That really feels impossible here. Which is clearly, obviously ridiculous.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2015 3:36:18 am PDT #23453 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So my day got off to a creepy start -- there was a bike accident on my behalf! A car stopped to let me cross the street, and two bikes slammed into the car! Clearly the bikers were assholes (too close to the car, going too fast, not paying attention to the crosswalk right there), but yikes. I figured there wasn't actually anything for me to do, so I just kept walking.
-t - Apr 02, 2015 5:11:14 am PDT #23454 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yikes, Jesse! What a thing.
Got my cheesecake made and assembled and chilling in the fridge in the dept. kitchenette. It's not gonna get the 5 hours of chilling recommended by the recipe, but it got most of an hour at home and was sitting in a not very warm kitchen over night. I'm sure it will be fine.
Jesse - Apr 02, 2015 5:23:24 am PDT #23455 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That cheesecake sounds amazing!
Oh, one more thing about the talk with my boss -- she suggested maybe I just need to work more hours, which is hilarious, because I spend MANY fewer hours screwing around online here than I have at any previous job.