My computer at work died today.
Really died.
There was No Ctrl Alt Delete = restart, no reboot, not even unplug the damn thing and start over.
And I didn't even touch the thing. It died a horrible death over the weekend and I had nothing to do with it! I came in this morning to work and there was a very disconcerting message, like something from the computer terrorists, "We're sorry for the inconvenience, Windows has had problems..." I'd say it has had problems. It asked me (or rather on the screen was written) if I wanted to reboot, reboot in safe mode, reboot blah, blah, blah more options. Nothing would work.
So I called the teckkie.
The teckkie took one look at the screen and said, in a most 'reassuring' voice, "You backed up everything on the network, right?"
Seriously?
Ok, so only by virtue that the computer is TWO WEEKS OLD, and I had already moved everything onto the network that I was at all calm through this entire process. I told the nice teckkie girl who finally came to help that honestly, I didn't remember what was ON my desktop, so I probably wouldn't miss it. eh, whatever.
I had flash backs to Sex and the City (because everything can be related back to a SATC episode) when Carrie's Mac dies and Aiden tries to Ctrl Alt Delete/hard reboot and it doesn't work. She takes the thing (wrapped in a pashmina no less) to the Mac store and the teckkie asks her if she 'backs up'. It's a pretty good episode if you are a SATC fan.
ANYWAY. It took the entire day to "image" my computer, which, from what I can tell pretty much means going WWIII on it and destroying everything that was on it and starting again from scratch.
So I have to start all over. It's only a computer, and my files were backed up, so other than trying to remember email addresses, (you know that handy thing that remembers who you have emailed in Outlook and it just fills in the name automatically? Well it's called the NP2 file and mine is GONE) I'm all good.
Nevertheless I think I will just have a little chat with my computer tomorrow and tell it that I realize everyone gets a case of "the Mondays" but if it ever does that again, I'll have my way with it with some gangster rap and a baseball bat.
2 comments:
you should punch you computer that's what i so in the morning
In addition to reminding me to back-up my data, this post made me laugh too. Mostly because I remember that exact SATC episode and that I watched it at the viewing parties that Felix used to have (remember when that place was a cool joint?) and how every woman in the room either thought of me as an interloper or had to be convinced of my heterosexuality.
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