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jetpack_monkey) wrote2005-12-11 07:15 am
jetpack_monkey) wrote2005-12-11 07:15 am
Love Me and Despair
Had a heck of a day yesterday. Went with Mom to Best Buy to help her pick out a gift for her husband. At same time, figured I should have a better solution for storing my increasingly massive DVD collection, so I picked up a couple cheap "all you need is a Phillips-head screwdriver" media shelving units.
Put the first one together with little difficulty, but the second one... some things didn't line up properly. I know the thing to do in that situation is to turn around and return the thing, but I don't have a car, so I did what all good little Macgyvers do: improvise. I widened a few slots so that things fell together just right. The second cabinet is not as sturdy as the first (which won't be winning any craftsmanship awards), but it works.
So I then have to shift everything around, pull all my DVDs and videos down, deconstruct my Target-bought wire-mesh storage cubes and rebuild them where necessary, reorganize my collection, rewire my so-called entertainment center so that it's less of a jumble. My original solution for my stereo turned out to be lousy -- the piece of furniture I put it on collapsed, sending my record player flying and nearly damaging a vintage Joni Mitchell album. At this point, I was sore and tired, so I limp over to my computer and turn it on... nothing.
Boot-up screen, sure, but after that? Blank. Well, hell. Boot up off of the Windows Restore disc, repair my installation of Windows and run a Disk Check on my C: drive. Everything appears to be normal, but still no worky. Make panicked phonepost saying I might not be online for a while. Turn around, turn on computer, and it loads like there was nothing wrong.
Gr.
Oh, and I've put my name in on the wacky Christmas validation post: here.
Put the first one together with little difficulty, but the second one... some things didn't line up properly. I know the thing to do in that situation is to turn around and return the thing, but I don't have a car, so I did what all good little Macgyvers do: improvise. I widened a few slots so that things fell together just right. The second cabinet is not as sturdy as the first (which won't be winning any craftsmanship awards), but it works.
So I then have to shift everything around, pull all my DVDs and videos down, deconstruct my Target-bought wire-mesh storage cubes and rebuild them where necessary, reorganize my collection, rewire my so-called entertainment center so that it's less of a jumble. My original solution for my stereo turned out to be lousy -- the piece of furniture I put it on collapsed, sending my record player flying and nearly damaging a vintage Joni Mitchell album. At this point, I was sore and tired, so I limp over to my computer and turn it on... nothing.
Boot-up screen, sure, but after that? Blank. Well, hell. Boot up off of the Windows Restore disc, repair my installation of Windows and run a Disk Check on my C: drive. Everything appears to be normal, but still no worky. Make panicked phonepost saying I might not be online for a while. Turn around, turn on computer, and it loads like there was nothing wrong.
Gr.
Oh, and I've put my name in on the wacky Christmas validation post: here.
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