Thursday, January 27, 2005
Well Cody is watching Thomas so I thought i'd use this time to get online and talk about my computer troubles...etc. I have a BRAND SPANKIN' NEW COMPUTER!!! Aparently, my old computer was actually a piece of shit, and it kept crashing was not my fault, if you can believe that! Something was blown on the inside or whatever. Ok, but lets go back to Tuesday, the day I was going to install my DSL.(I didn't post about this cause Blogger was being a beoch and wouldn't let me) So I figured out how to hook everything up and then I realize I have no Ethernet port. We call the SBC people and the nice lady on the phone tells us we have to go buy and install a card on the computer and that it comes with a disk and instructions that will help OR we can take it to a Best Buy or something and have them install it. We chose the latter thinking we'd fuck the comp. up ourselves if we didn't. So we take it there and we think that the guy at their "Geek Squad" is really smart knows what he's doing......we were wrong. Apparently, Mr. Geeky Assmonkey, didn't SEE the Directions OR the Disk in the box, he just installed it and said that it wouldn't load the drives that i'd have to put in the recover ME disk in and re-install everything. Uh, excuse me asshole but you fucked it up i'm not wiping out my hard drive! So then my mom says for him to just give her everything the comp. and the box the card came in, and while he's handing her the stuff...etc. The DISK falls out of the instructions and he just goes "Oh, didn't see that..." WTF?! So THEN he tells us it will be fine, just when we get home install the disk and it will be ok. Apparently it wasn't O.K. So now we've called the people that made the card the guy "installed" and they tell us he did not do it right and that he might have put it in the wrong slot. He told us that you are supposed to load the disk first w/the Drivers on it THEN install the card and run the disk again............so yeah, we were screwed. And i'm so pissed off i'm at the point of tears. It was too late to do anything that late at night so the next morning we get up and mom tells me to just stay home w/Cody so we don't have to fuss w/him in the store and that she'll take the comp. back and get everything straightened out.
About a 1/2 hour later, I get a call from my mum: "I have to buy you a new computer, this other guy that I talked to and that looked at it said that the other guy shoudn't have even installed the card on it in the first place because it wouldn't have worked and he should have known that....etc." So now i'm ready to burst into tears, all my stuff i'm going to have to lose all my stuff... :( So she comes in with just the computer, cause we thought our monitor was still gonna work...etc. This comp. came with a new keyboard, mouse and speakers though, which I'm LOVING. K, so anyways, I notice that she still has the old one with her as well, and then she tells me that the new computer does not take floppies so what I'm going to have to do is insert this Attache thingy the guy told her to get and plug this thing into the back of the old computer do click and drag w/my files and then plug it into the new one and my stuff will be transfered. WELL, last night Tony was bugging me so I said fuck it i'll go ahead and transfer the files, um yeah, wouldn't work in the old computer. Again it said it couldn't find the thingy it needed to use the USB port. SO mum calls Best Buy again, she kept calling the guy that helped her w/the computer, sold it to her...really nice guy. And she told him it wasn't working and he started appologizing and what not, and so NOW we are going to try to save everything on the old computer to CD or whatever and try that, but i've never done that before and I dunno if it can be done?! Tony hooked the old comp. in his room, cause that one still works just not DSL. And what's funny is I tried hooking up the old one to the DSL on Tuesday to like email myself all the pictures...etc. That I wanted but they'd already taken our Dial-Up off. It is SO fusterating knowing that the old computer is fine and I have access to all my files and what not, yet I can't have them. :( If the CD saving thing doesn't work i'm just going to delete the stuff I don't want Tony to have and just let him keep the rest, like my Real Player, picture files....I caught him last night looking threw all my pictures, I told him I was sorry to disapoint him because there was no porno.
BUT, i'm looking at the good, and the good is that I have a BRAND NEW computer, it's emachines. Seems pretty nice. It has XP, so no more windows ME. And it also has a CD-RW and the guy said that I should be able to burn CDs now, which I hope is true! AND, I have DSL, so pages are loading pretty quickly for me! No more waiting 5 min. for an email to send...etc. Um, so yeah, I had to vent and get that all out. Yesterday I was just telling everyone the kind of shorter version, but now i've documented my day from hell.
Marie @ 2:50 PM