Gone AGAIN?

Right you are, sir!

My baby died for real this time. Catastrophic hard drive failure. Data not recoverable without extensive dicking around in a clean room. Sucks to be me…

One new HD, and some quality time spent in Tim’s basement, however, means that I’m back up and running. I’m trying to get my Thinkpad back to its former glory as we speak. Once I do, I should be back at least a bit

Oops, I seem to have disappeared!

I guess I’ll never really get used to blogging. Short list of changes since my last post:

1. My computer is better than fine. Turns out the wireless card driver was glitching.
2. I’m a year older.
3. I’m out like $800 on the geekiest (and best) weekend ever. No questions, please – even *I* have secrets. I’m debating reviewing some of my new acquisitions on the blog
4. I’ve been through the last class of my college career. I’m now struggling to muster the energy to care about finals…
5. Both my best friends are back on the horse. I’m not yet… Guess that’s what senior week is for!

I always kinda thought there’d be some great fanfare when college ended. Like some sort of marching band, or crack in the sky or something. I guess I should have expected that Georgetown would have a little bit too much dignity to make a big deal out of it. Of course, my last class WAS Advanced International Business, and it’s not like I haven’t spent the whole semester in that class checking my e-mail, updating my blog, and generally doing anything but paying attention to the professor. He gave a speech… And not one that really made sense. Oh well – that’s Georgetown for you.

My friends took me out for dinner/drinking on Friday to celebrate my birthday a little late. I had a fever going in, but I couldn’t tell by a few hours in and I had a lot of fun. Found a great place in Adams Morgan called The Blaguard. They have, I shit you not, shuffleboard. Which we suck at… But the Guinness was $6 a pint, and that more than made up for it. There’s also the close proximity of Amsterdam Falafel Shop for convenient drunk-munchies. We also managed to hit Wingos on the way back. I’d feel bad, except I’m up to running three miles a day these days.

I also got my grilling in for the weekend. Found around 4 and a half pounds of ground beef in the freezer that made for an excellent few hours of grilling (which I did instead of working on my paper on Organizational Change and Mountain Carvings). I think I’m declaring open-season on all food in the house on Wednesday. Maybe then my house-mates will finally eat some of the shit that’s been sitting around since September. Oh – and I saw Iron Man. God DAMN that movie was awesome.

I can’t believe it’s all over in a week.

Computer trouble…

I hate the words “computer trouble”. Even reading it, there’s this negative image of computers that pops up in my mind. Of course, I’m a little biased – I spend 6+ hours a day around my computer.

Which is why I’ve been so AWOL recently… I got back from Kenyon College last Monday and, to my horror, found that my computer wouldn’t boot. After a few attempts to fix the problem myself (I reseated the RAM – made sense given the error…), I finally took it to the business school’s tech center to have it repaired. They gave me a loaner, so I’ve been able to do work, but it’s been so long that I’d forgotten what it’s like to use a computer other than my own. It’s kind of disturbing not having all my bookmarks, all my preferences, my favorite programs. I actually found out where that virus last year came from when I tried to install my alarm clock on this computer – turns out it’s bundled with a downloader trojan.

Still no word on what’s wrong with my baby, but I’m getting kind of worried. In the mean time, my USB keys have been fully updated with the usual suite of programs. If only they had a WordpressPortable plugin suite…