Day: January 22, 2009

Crankypantsing

Hmmm.

Shelly

I think my computer overheard me talking about Operation Cracktop, because ever since then, it’s been randomly crashing. This is not good! I don’t know if my hard drive is going out or if my RAM (which I already know is wonky) is getting even wonkier. My plan is to give this machine to my mom when I’m done with it. I’m hoping that replacing (and upgrading) the RAM and installing a new hard drive, as well as reinstalling a clean copy of XP, will fix whatever is wrong with it. I’m not about to start on that project, though, until I have Mr. Cracktop in my greedy little hands and have got him properly set up.

Hrmf.

The other thing that has occurred to me is that the problem may be with Windows Media Player. I don’t use it for anything, but the crashes have all happened when other programs were/could have been interacting with it. It first happened when I was trying to use Amazon’s music downloader, which I know uses WMP. Then, it happened while trying to use QuickTime (which I loathe, so uninstalled, hoping that would solve the problem, but alas, no).

Thinking back, though, the problem started after installing QuickTime, so I have a feeling that’s the culprit, and that it’s overstepped its bounds and corrupted something that WMP required. I ran into the same problem with iTunes a few years ago, and ended up having to uninstall a bunch of programs, uninstall iTunes, then reinstall the affected programs again. Apple knew there was a problem with that release of iTunes, but did not fix it until 2-3 iterations later. Bastards. I wouldn’t be surprised if a similar problem was going on with QuickTime.

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More Lost

Shelly

I can’t believe I was able to stay awake through the end of Lost. I was worried that I’d get tired half-way through and fall asleep, but the two-hour episode seemed to last about 20 minutes. (Kind of appropriate, given the subject matter.)

Anyway, I adores me some Hurley, now more than ever. I laughed out loud when he told Sayid, “Maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn’t have to go around shooting people.” Yeah, what he said. And when Hurley was telling his mom what really happened, and you could see him begin to realize just how crazy it all sounded, but he kept going anyway. And his mom told him she believed him. Didn’t understand him, but believed him. That’s some damnfinegood teevee right there.

A lot happened in this episode, which is to be expected. I may have to watch it again online.

Alsotoo, because I was up so late, I’m dragging my ass this morning. I had to go get a caffeinated, carbonated beverage, and while I was in the lounge, I got a couple photos of another beautiful sunrise. Not as crazy as yesterday’s, but very pretty.