leakinglavender

The last two days proved that professional writing can be as rough as answering phones.

I expected that, sure, but it's one thing to expect and another to experience. Still wouldn't trade it for an old phone job. Even early Nintendo phone job. And maybe, just maybe, it's good. :)

Lights off, curtains closed, windows shut to trap in the cooler morning air. Let's see if we can avoid another 88 degree living room today.

Laptop appears to be back up and running, but there was something seriously wrong there.

After 30 minutes or so, the system would freeze up. Sometimes black screen, sometimes just a system freeze up. I tried booting into Windows, and thats where things got wierd. I got a "Your system needs repair." IT asked to run diagnostics...and the diagnostics froze. The BIOS Diagnostics said there were problems, but "it fixed them" (COULD YOU TELL ME WHAT YOU FIXED?!). Still couldn't get into window, and now I wasn't able to get into Linux.

No prob. Let's reinstall the system. I pop in a Linux Live USB and...it wont load. Kernel panic. O_O Pop in a Windows USB..."a file is corrupted."

Huh. I went into the bios and did a hard drive wipe, which worked. And then loaded up Windows, and got the corrupt error again. And then tried linux again, and it would load but with errors. At one point, it managed to load into Window, so I spefiically rewiped the drive in GPArted, rebooted and everything worked after that.

I think either there's a hardware error lurking (thanks Dell BIOS for giving me no info), or a BIOS update didn't take and one of the reboots knocked it back into shape.

But I'm keeping an eye on it, moving forward. And it's now my first all-Linux system. No Windows. Granted, it's mostly used as a portal to get to the file server or my working PC in the office, so you don't need much there....

::sigh::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S80ivPamBoM

Do I know anyone who could make a batch of one die-cast model? Let me know!

Quote of the Day: "This movie could have been an EMail."

Stomach: Ooh, a Chipotle. Let's do there for lunch.
Brain: It's a chain. Shouldn't we find something local?
Stomach: I like Chipotle, and there isn't one near us. This one is a left turn. IT'S LOCAL.
Brain: You're wierd you know that. ::turns left::

Holy cow. This is not far from where I had property in the Hill Country. And the third time in my life l've heard a story like this happening on the Guadalupe.

Hope my Texas family isn't affected by this.

https://youtu.be/XIfUtSwYjFs?si=BDs65tsEaZeTEvk6

Current Mood:

There is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move, but I can't hear what you're saying

When I was a child, I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am