The Death of a LaptopMy laptop of two years is on it's last legs of life and it's staggering closer to the grave every day! The first thing that went was the wireless. The little switch on the side wouldn't work and the computer basically couldn't recognize it's own internal card. So I bought an external USB wireless adaptor and things seemed to be a-okay.
Then, recently, it started to shut down randomly and without warning. There was no pattern to this. It would do it sitting idle, it would do it in safe mode, it would do it online, on Steam, at the log in window, booting up... It would make this apologetic like "whree" sound and just die. XD So I took it in to the on campus tech support and after 4 hours of experimentation, after I missed ALL my classes for the day, they said that it was the fan in the computer that was broken and that it was overheating and shutting down. We downloaded a tempertaure checking program and turns out my comp had a core temp of some 200 degrees F! 200 degrees! That's like...I could cook my FOOD on that! So we bumped down processing power and uninstalled un-needed shit and although it was still tempermental, it was better.
Until today.
This morning, my keyboard didn't work. At first some keys wouldn't respond and some gave me numbers so I t3p4d l2ike t4is which was oddly interesting and then...after a restart, nothing worked. The keyboard was dead. Another quick trip down to the tech people confirmed that the computer had fried its own keyboard connection...
Lol whut?
I managed to haggle a 15 dollar external keyboard off them and set about doing hw, until the damn thing shut down again! But this time, when I tried to boot it back up after a cool down period, it started screaming. Like. Seriously. It got to the screen that says HP and then it shrieked its bloody processor off! It sounded like some electronic banshee! And it wouldn't stop! Eventually I just unplugged it because my battery is fried and it can't live without power, and that shut it up. But now it will only restart if I put pressure on the non-functioning keyboard, otherwise it screams bloody murder at me over and over again.
-.-
I'm kinda curious about what will go next. The monitor? The mouse? Who knows! Taking all bets!
Torment
it's not actually a jellyfish but still, it's pretty much awesome lol
That is so frickin cool. It just needs to be blue and glowy <3
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
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*eminem and dre in the car*
*BOSH*
Dre: who was that?
Em: Jermaine Dupri...
Dre: i think he's dead
Em: lets back over him, just to be shure
Dre: damn, now he's draggin under the car...
Em: >
*BOSH,BOSH,BOSH,BOSH*
Dre:"what was that?"
Em:"PetShop boys!"
What else? I'm maybe 10 minutes away from a river. And the campus, omg, the campus here? Has huge paddocks full of cows and horses and one hilarious building called: Poultry Science, lmao. XD Also: I met this weird French guy who has a farm on the wildlife preserve where we work and dresses like a sheriff (down to a working pistol and spurs). He's a total sexist and seemed to judge me by my answer to this totally random question he asked me when I met him...which was: If you were stuck in a lifeboat with two others and someone had to die, would you jump overboard and sacrifice yourself, or eat one of the other people?
.......
.........Come again?
And he was totally serious. Wouldn't leave me alone until I answered. So I said something like: if the people in there with me asked such random questions, they deserved to be eaten.
And I couldn't tell if I impressed or offended him, lol.
Anyway, this dude occasionally invites us to his Howling Coyote Saloon for lunch and we're going to go back there for free Bison burgers sometime this week. Bison burgers! The novelty!
Let's see...work is good. I had a brutal two days in which we helped other people with their wetland surveys because the birds were being relatively quiet. There are over a 100 ponds in the Reserve and "perimeter work" as it was called, involved walking around the edge of each one, holding a GPS in one hand and scrambling with the other. Follow the waterline, was the instructions. Ha. Sounds easy enough, yeah? But it wasn't. I quickly learned that there are three kinds of ponds--in order of most evil to least it goes something like: reedy, woody, clear.
The reedy: surrounded by reeds (duh) but I don't think you appreciate how sinister reeds are until you have to walk on them. Each step, you had pull your boot free of them, (which was made all the more difficult by the fact that, by this time, your boots are full of water and weigh some frickin' 5 pounds) and then step down. Each time you stepped down, you'd go right through the reeds into mud and water up to your knee. Then it was wrench your boot free, again, and repeat the process for as long as it took to get around the lake. It was ridiculous. I have never been so exhausted. The effort of lifting water filled boots free of mud and rushes was insane. I was so dead.
The woody: Basically entailed forcing your way through both live and dead brambles and willows. I got branches in my eyes, down my clothing, got my hands all cut up, it was brutal. Once we had to scramble up and over a dead willow that had fallen into the water and I almost ended up head first in the mud.
Then there's the really muddy ponds, which were plain fun by comparison. I got stuck twice. Once, with my boss and she levered me up and out easily, and the other by myself. In the middle of nowhere. Both boots sunk so deep that I couldn't pull them free. It was kinda funny and kinda bad at the same time. I had to pull my socks out of the boots, spread my weight over the mud, and then yank the boots free knowing that, at any moment, I could just sink right in.
It was quite the experience.
After pond duty, birds are even more amazing.
But yeah: enough rambling: How is your time in Arizona? Die of heat-stroke yet?
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
i was about to say 30 degrees isn't freezing at all but then i realized that it is, literally, freezing - isn't 32 freezing?
and you mean to tell me that this is your first time driving an ATV?? ATV's are BADASS. nothing is more fun than jumping on an ATV and chasing down cows, way better than driving around bird watching or whatever you're doing with them, LOL those things can go over anything. >8D
bison burgers? YUMMEH. better than beef eh?
well i'm jealous, that sounds FREAKING AWESOME. arizona is brutally hot, except for this past week when it rained constantly. moving to hassy was a pain in the ass, while i was moving my stuff i managed to lock myself out of BOTH dorms at the same time, how fabulous...XD
so far all i did was a bunch of training, lots of ice breakers and "team builders." which i love. oh wait, no i don't.
....i SO want to drive an ATV now....NO FAIR!!!
XD How did you lock yourself out of both dorms, lmao? And what did you do with the pesos? How did you move? Friends/slaves?
Eww, icebreakers? That sounds awful. As if they expect you to interact in the wee hours of the morning when you'll be working. And to think, you used to go to bed early! It's like we're switching schedules or something.
As for ATVs: Hell yes. I want one. I want to cruise around campus on one. Shifting is so fun. Steering is so fun. And being bumped around on rough roads is beyond fun. Weee!
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
i was moving my mini fridge across campus to hassy and i locked both keys, and my suncard, in Hayden.
the pesos are somewhere in the many boxes i have, so on the off chance i wind up in mexico i'll be able to buy myself a pack of gum
i usually went to bed at like midnight, that's only early compared to you XD but now i'll be going to bed at 6 am, is that early or late?
Ahaha, and that would be early. Very early.
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All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey, I can bleed as well as anyone but I need someone to help me sleep
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