Day 43 - August 8th

So here's the thing, a little math for you:

Q. L+APO(G+GA)= ?
What is the answer when:

L = Laptop
APO = Accident Prone Owner
G = Gravity
GA = Guitar Amplifier

If you guessed something along the lines of "buggered up laptop" then for the last few days you would have been 100% dead on balls accurate.

Since my warranty expired a month and a week ago, and the help desk people are based in darkest Outsourcistan, I think it's unlikely that they will heed my call for help under the expired warranty. And so, last night, armed with a couple of screw drivers, a spare hard drive, and a cast-iron will to "make this effing thing work", I settled down to make it effing work.

As you can probably tell, I am claiming victory over technology by the application of brute force and adult language.

Yes, victory. I may have just had to install Windows to the spare, significantly smaller, hard drive so I can check the status of the damaged hard drive. And now, it turns out that the laptop, leaping lemming-like from my grasp and clattering against my little amp, causing the hard drive to explode out of the machine, has physically damaged the drive to the point where it won't work ever again. Poop. Well, I guess I have the first item on my 2009 Christmas List.

The what? Oh, the diet! That old thing. Yeah, well, the thing about that is: shut the hell up.

I'm at the lake this weekend to celebrate Jen turning thirty-hmmph, and that means that I will likely put on about twenty pounds because I know what the menu is, and the menu is good.

I will update again once we return home, in the meantime, there may be pictures of the delicious foods, and (who knows) maybe the recipes themselves.