13
Jul
Yesterday… not so good
At work I worked on changinging some code to work in a more proper but more complicated way. At the end of the day I realized that I did it wrong so I get to do it again today.
On the way home I turned on to my street and remembered I wanted to go to the store to get apples. No problem, I’ll just loop through the parking lot and get back on Capitola Road. I decided to go around the speed bump which meant I had to ride on the patch or dirt on one side. Next thing I know I’m on my hands and knees on the ground. Looking at the patch if dirt I see that it’s actually very fine, soft, and not the thing I should have been riding on. Jeans show no signs of damage, knees are a little scraped up. Scooter is a little scraped on the side it fell but no problem otherwise.
When I got home I decided to work on my computer writing DVDs slowly. I learned that there was a bug in WindowsXP where if there was 6 timeouts in talking to a storage device it would downgrade the speed. I added the registry entries it wanted, and figured new drivers would be a good idea too. After I install the drivers and reboot it won’t boot. It gets to a certain file and tells me it can’t go on.
I decided to go watch Eulogy in the tv room. It’s pretty funny, at least until the part where my DVD player froze. I stopped it and tried to start again but it wouldn’t even start playing the DVD. I went and finished reading the Discover magazine.
Oh. My. God!!!
What a terrible day for you and technology!
I’m glad that, in the end, paper and ink still worked for you. (I mean, it would have been really sad if the pages had been stuck together, or the magazine had gotten all wet. Sad, but funny, too. I guess you could have resorted to painting on the walls and then looking at the drawings. ;^)
July 13th, 2005 at 9:48 am