Monday, September 7, 2009
Hey, Hey,
Last Thursday Liz, Racheal and I went skating for Racheal's birthday. I forgot how hard skating is!! I haven't been for at least 15 years and I really was learning all over again. Luckily I didn't fall as the rink had a nice layer of water skimming the ice - would have soaked my butt.
This past weekend was pretty laid back although Friday was a big P.I.T.A!! I woke up Friday morning to my laptop yelling 'CORRUPTION ERROR' through bold, blue, capitals. My heart broke in two. There was nothing that I could do to fix it. I had flash backs of Tania and Ray saying, 'reboot, reboot,' but that didn't work and safe mode was non-existent. I ended up dragging out the Yellow Pages and calling a few computer guys within Townsville. The first quote I got was for $300-400.... **jaw drops to ground** All I could envision was throwing my laptop off my balcony but realized that would only create instant gratification and would soon fade when I realized the laptop won the war. Quote number two was for $130, but this was to diagnose only - then I thought 'don't doctors charge less than that??' and moved to the next ad. I was slowly slipping into insanity as I realized seven months of memories were on this laptop and I had never backed a single gigabyte up.
Finally I reached a guy by the name of Mark who said he would be able to fix it for around $60, but told me it would not be more than $100; sign me up. I trudged out of residence, still in my pj's, and caught the bus to Kevin-Rudd-knows-where; an approximately 45 minute bus route meaning I was about 6 km from residence. I dropped off my laptop (took 2 minutes) than waited an hour for the next bus. I reached home and had 20 minutes to stuff overcooked pasta down my throat and change into decent clothing before catching the next bus to my high school meeting; another 45 minute ride.
Meeting complete. I waited 45 minutes for the bus which took me 10 minutes down the road, 2 minutes to pick up laptop ($79.00), an hour wait for the bus and a 45 minute ride home. Luckily after 8 hours of running around on Townsville public transit, and $8.00 in bus fare, I felt elated. I was elated at my physical restraint (not throwing my laptop off a balcony) and felt I had achieved something by not killing anyone during my day of horror. I guess with age comes something....
Luckily my laptop seems healed and I once again have contact with the Canadian world, Oh Canada! Today my laptop acted up a bit and crashed three times in a row. I mentioned this to Tim and his response, 'Have you backed your data up yet?' I turned and walked away.......
Today JCU got back to me on when I'm allowed to leave Townsville and my return date has been pushed up by almost two weeks which should be nice. I have a bunch of stuff to do when I get back to Canada but I'm definitely going to hit the beach before I leave here. I figure I better get as much Vit D as I can before I return to the frozen tundra.
On a sad note and a weighting issue, tomorrow is the day of reckoning, the day I have been avoiding.... tomorrow I am officially closer to 30 than 20. My friends and I will be going out for dinner and luckily there will be people older than me coming along **clears throat** Leighton. I figure since I'm not celebrating in Canada (my birth place and home residence) it doesn't really count so technically I'll be 25 for another year. Haha Suckers!
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Miss ya!
lori
1. When I fell on the bridge at the beginning of the year.
2. When my laptop crashed, and for a moment, my world.
Glad to know I amuse you all. :P