| Thursday, October 11, 2007 |
| T&B, etc = Kiss of Death |
A not so little known fact is that I have the black thumb of death. That's right; plants do not have a long, healthy, or happy life with me. I follow all the water, light, and nutrition instructions, I swear! Yet they still die under my "care." Thus, I do not own plants and haven't done for decades. I don't count the beautiful cactus a coworker once gave me; it, too, died -- albeit it took 2 months to do so.
Another not so little known fact, but less known than my black thumb of death, is that I have an exceedingly hazardous effect on electronics. Cash registers, PDAs, mobile phones, computers. Which brings me to the point of this post.
My home laptop(s) have been dying for quite some time. Heck, one of them had its hard drive give out 3x in the past year and a half. The other began to fail a few months ago. Both now have various issues going on with them, none of them quite the same. And then there's the office computer. Believe it or not, I'm just about to be given a 3rd one in 13 months. At first, the e-mail (Outlook) kept shutting down. Then the browser kept having issues. Then the blue screen of death appeared sporadically. In the past few weeks, that blue screen has appeared with increasing frequency (no, duh!), culminating in several blue screens each day.
Now, you might think I'm exceedingly stupid (which I can agree to), but I did contact IT for the office PC. I really like my IT folks; they're always super nice to me (even though I create extra work for them, as it were). However, they don't know what's wrong. According to their data, the multiple blue screens are not prompted by any one thing. Rather, there are several errors going on. So.
I've re-downloaded IE7. I've run a checkdisk set up. Everything was fine for half a day, then I got the blue screen again. And today, I had to reboot 3x AND, briefly, borrow a coworker's PC AND borrow my supervisor's PC.
Considering I work at a Web-based company and need a computer to actually do my work, I'm feeling a bit sad. Have I mentioned that it's pouring outside as well? See? I'm so powerful, my melancholy even affects the weather. Rrrrright. |
posted by Cheshire Cat @ 10/11/2007 04:48:00 pm   |
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