alternate title: I Was Under the Impression that the Craptasticness Would Be Confined to 2009
At the end of the summer, my one-month-old netbook had to be sent back to the manufacturer for repair. I got it back, fixed, for free, but not in time for a business trip (which is the whole reason I bought the netbook).
Right before Thanksgiving, the hard drive on my regular, workhorse laptop died. I limped along for a week or so on the netbook and my husband’s laptop, then rebuilt everything on my old laptop when I got the new hard drive. You know, re-finding all my favorites, reinstalling all the software, downloading stuff like Tweetdeck and Adobe Reader, restoring all my files from my (thank god) backup. (Shout out to Mozy.com, by the way.)
A week or so after that, the hard drive on Jeff’s laptop died. So then he had to order another one, and go through all the restoration process, accompanied by much gnashing of teeth. He is still convinced that I caused the failure by downloading Firefox. Which, no. And, he was running IE6! I couldn’t function!
Saturday night, I spilled, like, a tablespoon of tea into my laptop.
Yup. Dead hard drive AGAIN. Another $150 and another two days of my life, gone.
2010, so far I am not impressed.
(P.S. This a.m., I am not able to comment on Blogger blogs, for some reason … sorry)
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Only a tablespoon? Well, that hardly seems fair.
O geez. Time to do the karma dance and rearrange furniture;) Hang in there.
I think this is just a hangover from 2009. You know, like when you’ve been sick and then you’re better but not really better — just comparatively better. Next week the good stuff should start : )
Painful, yrch! Perhaps this is all the 2010 technical horribles getting used up early, so the that the rest of the year can go smoothly.
Oh, boo. All of my students would respond in Facebook-speak: “DISlike.”
Arghh, that is so not fair. Stuff like that drives me nuts. It’s early enough in the year, though, I think you can still scratch it out and count it as leftover from 2009. Or, as Jennifer called it, 2009 hangover – I like it. And I sure hope it is!