To be, or not to be...
















My computer died last night.




And I suppose, to be perfectly honest, it was murdered. It didn't commit suicide. But murder isn't nearly as funny...but it might be, if I draw it right.




Anyway, I was going through my now-deleted list of favorite blogs, and one of them (don't worry, it was somebody I only blogstalk..I don't actually know them) spit out a virus at me and it ate my software. I could actually hear it munching away (but, I suppose it could have been Jeremy, who was loudly munching away on a hot dog at the time...).



My screen went black.




My heart sank.




And Jeremy kept eating his hot dog, and said, in an anti-climactic way, "I'm gonna hop in the shower."




I sat with my computer in my lap, rocking back and forth, and consoling it's lifeless body,




"Shhh...it's going to be okay...shhhh...."




The computer replied by saying,



"Hello, I am dead. Please press any key to make it permanent."




I knew it was a trick question, so I didn't do anything.




"...Good job! Now I am still dead, but will give you the option to resurrect me, with slightly less (okay, A LOT less) information than you had on me before...."




"OOO! I pick that one!"



"Okay, all I need is some DVD-Rs..."

I then tried a whole bunch of CD-Rs and for some reason they didn't work.




"WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!?!?!?" I screamed, shoving multiple disks into any slot I could find.




"I DON'T WANT THOSE!" my computer screamed back, spiting out the useless CDs.




We glared at each other, and then I pushed the button on top of the monitor and walked toward the bathroom.




I could hear it protesting as I went down the hallway that it couldn't see, and that it was lonely.




Oh well...




Dad came over today and helped me get my computer back to near-normal condition.




I asked him, "So...how do I get the information off the back-up disks?"




"I don't know. Good luck."




Gee, thanks, Dad...



Lucky for you, I figured it out, otherwise, you might have found your car mysteriously covered in eggs...

Comments

Trillium said…
Hmmmm. I heard him say "did you try 'restore'?" And then you apparently figured it out yourself. ... just sayin
Anonymous said…
He FIRST said, "I dunno..it's an HP thing..." THEN he said the "restore" comment...Just sayin'....
Zaphod said…
Hey! I came up there without having anything for breakfast. I was lucky to find the place... Just sayin'...

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