Well, looks like computer won this fight. But it hasn’t won the battle. Once I got all my files off of the hard drive and onto my dad’s computer, I realized that not only is the “resource” cd the computer came with lacking a copy of XP, but my backup image of the factory setup is also gone. So I have nothing to install even if I can swipe the drive. What I will do, though, is buy a legit copy of XP (groan) at a reduced price thanks to my friend who is a student at an unnamed university here in town.
Also, that road trip I talked about? Yeah, not gonna happen. The weather in central Texas is going to turn hellish this weekend. Cold, I can handle. Rain and cold I cannot handle. I’m not that manly (and neither is 56-year-old dad). So looks like pops and I are just gonna kick it here in town. He needs a new light jacket, so we went to to REI and got him a cool fleece top. Then we saw Aeon Flux, which has gotten terrible reviews, but at matinee price, I don’t mind watching Charlize Theron frolic around the screen in that smokin’ hot outfit. Yes, I’m easy to please. The movie was pretty good if you're looking for a sci-fi action flic to kill some time. It was definitely a guy movie: sci-fi plot with some social commentary stirred in, topped with enough action sequences to keep most any male happy. Damn the reviewers, we liked it.
Tonight was Heather’s birthday party, so I got to hang with her and Andrew at Rudyard’s, a new (to me) dive. Her landlord’s band was an opening act and they were pretty good, so I’m looking forward to seeing them again.
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excatamundo. except, of course, it's no longer just hypothetical...
Posted by p-man | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16
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computers suck. first they die and go out of commission the week before finals, then you finally figure out that you're going to fix it without throwing money at some computerfixin' dude, and you're happy and feel empowered, but you can't use itunes because you had installed it in the hard drive of the borrowed computer, so you transfer it to the ext. hard drive, an import it into the hard drive of the current computer but quicktime won't work and you can't download it because the files are corrupted, so you search and search and search for a stand alone version of QT (without itunes) and then it takes forever to install and you wind up wishing you had gotten drunk instead. hypothetically.
Posted by heatherfeather | February 10, 2007 8:16 PM
Posted on February 10, 2007 20:16