Of Laptops and Windows
So it was a nice Saturday evening. I had ordered a pizza and was enjoying a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. I was also chatting with a friend of mine in Ireland. Life was basically good. Now earlier in the day I had stopped at my local American Legion for lunch and a beer. I gave up $5 to play a few ‘fishbowl’ tickets and I won $100. So you see by the time I ordered my pizza life WAS good.
You don’t think it lasted do you?
Of course it didn’t. While typing back and forth with my friend my laptop coughed a little cough. You know the kind of cough rude folk use when you light a smoke up beside them. They think they’re being polite but they don’t realize how rude it is. Anyways my laptop did that and I asked it what the problem was. It didn’t answer me so I continued on with my typed conversation. Well apparently my laptop didn’t like that. It turned itself off. It turned itself off with no warning. The little fucker did this to me in the middle of typing a sentence. I didn’t like this turn of events. As a matter of fact I think I expressed my concern using some colorful language. Most of it was directed at my laptop.
I turn it back on but as expected it tries and tries to load windows but never really gets around to it. By this time I was practising my swearing and letting Microsoft and Dell know exactly what I thought of both of them. It wasn’t pretty. Then my pizza showed up. Suddenly I no longer cared about the laptop.
After munching away happily and having another beer I decided to tackle the laptop and make it turn on again. There was no troubleshooting or logical progression to determine what the problem is. Oh no, I went straight for the, “Ultimate Boot CD”. I booted to it and started in on it’s many system tools. I wrenched and ratcheted and I guess something worked because when I finally restarted my laptop it started up and ran happily along like nothing was wrong.
Now I’m not 100% sure but I’m leaning towards all the swearing and threatening is what fixed it but it might have been rebuilding the registry. I just can’t be sure which one.
So now it’s Sunday morning and I’m typing away on my laptop and eating cold pizza for breakfast and once again life is good despite all the rain.
