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April 15, 2006
Everything is broken
My laptop won't start up, which means that I can't access my jodigreen.ca e-mail right now. So if anybody was planning to write to me about anything, please use jodichartreuse@yahoo.ca for now.
This means that the patterns I promised to have done by the end of this weekend are totally inaccessible, and I'll have to go back to my chickenscratch notebook and decipher my notes and write the whole damned things out again, then redo all the math for the sizes. All tomorrow.
Wish me luck.
*Edit: it seems I still have some intermittent laptoppage. The geek dudes at Big Chain Electronics Store got it working without too much problem, changed some settings to hopefully make it not poop out again and told me some ways I might be able to troubleshoot the problem in future. Just to make sure that the computer would still work for me once it had been taken outside the magical geek zone, I fired it up in the parking lot; so far so good. Half an hour later (yes, I was in the parking lot for half an hour, don't ask) it wouldn't start up, and I had to take it back inside to the geeks, who promptly got the thing going with the sheer power of their nerdy vibes. They laughed like they thought I was joking when I suggested that I stay with them, behind the counter, all night until my work is done, and they suggested that heat might be the problem. So I took it back to the studio, where it resolutely refused to start up all night. I did, however, partake of the geeks' wireless long enough to e-mail my patterns to my gmail account so that I can finish them up on the school macs if I have to. Whew! What an ordeal. And, guess what? At 3:30 am when I got back to the shack, the laptop started up. So I guess it's just the studio. Hmmph.
Posted by jodi at April 15, 2006 03:21 PM | categories: assholes
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Good luck, I was just recently (about 2 weeks ago?) in your same position. Mine was literally a power supply failure. If I have the cable plugged in and turned in just the right way, enough juice gets pumped in to keep my laptop on for about 3 hours. My battery died years ago so there's no other way to power it. I hope yours is just tired and needs rest.
Posted by: Mary at April 15, 2006 03:58 PM
Bob Dylan sings:
Broken laptop, broken keys,
Broken blogger, broken posts,
Broken patterns, broken scratch,
People writing in broken pads.
Ain't no use jiving
Ain't no use joking
Everything is broken.
(Am I being too obtuse again?)
Posted by: NWJR at April 15, 2006 04:10 PM
dude, that sucks. I might call you this afternoon. Are you sure you can't access your email through a web interface?
Posted by: Carrie at April 15, 2006 05:36 PM
argh. hoping something serendipitous restores your files to you!
Posted by: anna at April 15, 2006 06:01 PM
Man, that sucks. I was glad to come back to your blog this morning and see the edit that you have an intermittent fix. Good luck with that.
I love geeks. But you already knew that.
Posted by: bonnie at April 16, 2006 01:16 PM
Here's something I am SURE will cheer you up, dearie. http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/archives/2006/04/have_you_heard.php
Love, Me
Posted by: Merouda at April 16, 2006 07:36 PM
I think it's contageous ... mine won't boot up properly either, and it's highly frustrating. I may have to resort to taking it somewhere today. Hope that yours stays up and running - and good luck getting all the work finished.
Posted by: Kirsti at April 17, 2006 10:56 AM
There seems to be a lot of that going around, there really does. Bakerina's crapped out on her last week. I'm glad to see you're somewhat functional again.
Posted by: Snow at April 18, 2006 12:37 PM