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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 7:48:23 GMT -5
All right, I don't know what I did to offend it, but this thing is messing with me. *points accusingly at laptop* I know it's an inanimate object, but I am convinced that it has a cruel sense of humor and takes particular joy in seeing how much it can stress me out. The damn thing wouldn't let me on the internet at all last night. I took it to Best Buy, and the Geek Squad couldn't do anything with it either. They told me it probably had hardware problems and that I needed to send it in. (*glares death at the laptop.* I hope you die. I still have a warranty on you. Until December.)
And if I send it in, I won't get it back for 10 days to three weeks. And, knowing my luck, that three week maximum will turn into four. So I decided to hold off. And then it let me on this morning to write a message. I can't do anything more because my grandfather is taking me to a flea market today. I think it knows this. I don't care if that makes me crazy.
I'm going to be stubborn and hope that the problem 'goes away' (highly unlikely. I know.) But one more night like this last and I'm bringing it in. And then I'll be gone again. And I'll be very miserable.
So that's whats happening. If I'm not on often this weekend, it's because my computer is some kind of sadistic, sentient being.
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Post by Rojo on May 3, 2008 8:02:23 GMT -5
*Smashes head on desk*
I am gonna be so bloody bored over the next few weeks.
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Post by Seven on May 3, 2008 9:47:28 GMT -5
Ouch. Sounds like your computer hates you. A lot. I'm sorry to hear that. I hope the problem does 'go away' as you said.
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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 18:32:53 GMT -5
So far it seems as though the problem really has miraculously gone away...though I am still going to have to send my computer in at some point this summer, since it has these odd lines that run through the screen. They're peculiar because they aren't very consistent...but it's still something I should take care of before the fall semester.
Still, I am very grateful that it's decided to be nice to me for the time being. I was very anxious when I couldn't get on the internet. I am terribly dependent on this site when it comes to my psychological well being. One day something irreparable is going to happen to this computer and I'm going to go insane!...but at least I'll draw some pretty pictures before I go. *grins*
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Post by Rojo on May 3, 2008 18:39:07 GMT -5
Oh dear...this happened to someone on another RP site...
She had clinical depression. The RP site was the only thing that kept her happy. THen it got shut down. She plunged a knife into her chest and went into a coma...
But that'll never happen to you...
Right?
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Post by Seven on May 3, 2008 18:39:47 GMT -5
Hurray for pretty pictures! I really hope your computer doesn't die. I'm happy that it's been working so far. But the 2 lines sound more like a monitor problem than an acutal hardware problem. You must have hit it against something (or something like that). I know because roomie accidentally dropped her computer and half the screen is just lines, but other than that, it works fine.
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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 19:07:21 GMT -5
First of all, NO, I WOULD NEVER TRY TO KILL MYSELF! NEVER!!! I've been pretty damned depressed for extremely long lengths of time (years in one case) but that has never been an option in my mind. I am just too stubborn. I think that if I killed myself the people who had triggered the issues I'm facing now would win. And we can't have that. I can be very competitive. *amused grin* Also, I often think of my life as though it's a written story and I REALLY want to see what happens next. I like to think that things will get better. I'm only pessimistic when dealing with the present.
So even if something were to happen and I couldn't return to this site, I would be incredibly upset, but I'd find a way to deal with it. Through writing (my favorite medium) or through images(not so much).
As for the lines in the screen, they kind of move. As in they shift about the screen, and also grow or decrease in number when the whim strikes them. Which is every time I go to a new page. That was why one of the Geek Squad members told me that it was probably a hardware problem...
You know what's sad? When you mentioned how dropping a computer could cause such lines to appear, I though of how mine has actually fallen off my bed three times over the past six months. It's no wonder it torments me, it's probably furious and thinks I should be grateful that it still works at all. I bet it's trying to teach me a lesson. *stares at laptop* Would it help if I said I was sorry? It's not my fault that my bed is pet central and that I have no desk! (well, I do but it's buried beneath my collection of old books). It's not my fault that my dog and my cat are suck-ups. *frowns*
All right, I'm done talking to the inanimate object for the time being. *smiles* I just hope that it never talks back. *grins*
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Post by Seven on May 3, 2008 19:15:22 GMT -5
Awww...but things are most interesting when they talk back!!! *grins insanely* Sounds like you've got bad computer karma now! How sad for the rest of us...
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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 19:59:33 GMT -5
*nods* I bet. Except I think it would be even more fun to talk to things that weren't there. Like imaginary vampires. Or faerie. Or dragons, or kelpies, or demons, or angels, or...(let's just sum the list up with et cetera, et cetera.)
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Post by Seven on May 3, 2008 20:03:02 GMT -5
Fun, yes. Slighty dangerous, quite possibly. Insanely awesome, quite definately.
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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 20:04:50 GMT -5
*smiles* Danger is fun...and usually makes for a good story. ;D
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Post by Seven on May 3, 2008 20:09:17 GMT -5
Exactly. I want to read already.
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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 20:39:17 GMT -5
*nods* Almost all of my stories are based on the What If game. You know, the one where you think about a worst case scenario, perhaps involving something that you might run into during an evening stroll, and then try and figure out just how you would (or should, if you have a picky moral code) react.
The demented things that I come up with to entertain myself. *shakes head sadly*
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Post by Seven on May 3, 2008 21:22:00 GMT -5
I do something pretty odd...but I'm not sure I'm willing to share it. It's sort of just strange and embarrassing.
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Post by Asila on May 3, 2008 21:33:30 GMT -5
There is little that will shock me, though if you don't want to share it you don't have to.
Hmm, would you like me to share something demented about myself with you? Well, it's only about the strange, messed up pattern that my dreams sometimes adopt, so it's not that bad, but it's still peculiar and definitely messed up.
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