Dead.

My computer has died again. My computer and I have always had a relationship that has seemed like playing a video game.

My machine and I have fun chatting, surfing the web, listening to music, editing pictures, and even writing the occasional term paper. This fun starts to decrease in increments, or "level stages", of playing difficulty. Some days I have to loose my place in the game, needing to restart after a BSOD crash. As time goes on the level of difficulty builds, making playing the game even harder. Windows freezes, corrupt files, blue screens and crashes coming more frequently. In the last 4 months my computer has failed and refused to start again, no less than 5 times. Using system disks and driver files, I have been blessed with 5 extra lives; the computer game terminology for gifts of brief immortality and a chance to continue working towards the next level of difficulty in the game.

Why play? This is the question I'm asking myself now. My lives, or chances to start again on the previous level are all gone on this machine. I will now need to format Windows, erasing all of my music, pictures, work, and programs for the third time in the last three months. Why? Because I would like to repeat this whole process again, wanting to play the game longer. The idea of finding a new level of difficulty, with secret dungeons of problems I never new existed. Wait a second... Now I am just starting to understand why Mac users always extend their tongues at PC users clinging to their comfortable machines in hopes that things will get better in time.

I'm fed up. At the moment I am writing in the dark from the PC in my grandparent's basement. My ACER Notebook is now a Windows-based paperweight just awaiting another cycle of erasing and re-installing programs. I'm not doing this anymore. I plan on working for 6-7 weeks and buying a Mac and selling my old computer. This page sold me. It is going to take a lot of work for somebody to convince me that spending time and money fixing my PC and keeping it up to date is better than buying a used Mac Notebook off of eBay.

Ahhhhh. Maybe a couple of days will cool me down a bit. I'm just so annoyed by computer problems at the moment. Mostly angry at myself for playing this game. Oh well.

Tomorrow morning Grandpa and Grandma are going on a business trip to Colorado. I'll probably do the same thing I did today: get up for breakfast then go back to sleep, wake up around 2pm. If it's warm I'll walk over to the soccer field, if not... well, I'll stay in bed.

Yesterday I got a call from a restaurant asking me to fill in for their no-show dishwasher/bus boy/prep cook. I jumped out of bed and raced over to the restaurant in 20 minutes and worked for the day! Nice eh? Combined with another 4hr. shift I had I now have 11.30 hrs. at this barbecue joint. Thursday I applied at T's for a bus position and am really hoping I get the job. It would mean steady hours during the busy season of June and July, the owners seem very professional and nice, and the tips would be $40+ each night I think. Fingers crossed.

Using lots of hyperlinks tonight aren't I?

If I get over my pissed-off at my computer mood, I will try to write more from the basement soon. Goodnight.