Life Less Literary

How fucking prescient am I?

D:\ is not accessible.

The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.

AAARRRGHHH!!!!!!

Ah well, there goes every photo I ever took since I got my digital camera, and a few more beside. There goes all the websites I ever built. There goes everything.

On the bright side, my new fan has blue LEDs in it. How cool is that?

Seriously though, I think this may not be the end of the world because (a) my computer is acting so screwy, I seriously hope it may change its mind again after a few more reboots, or a serious dis- and re-mantling, or a quick rattle of the sledgehammer, or something. Also, I have the old RAID mirror, which at least contains all this stuff up until a few months ago. Still… AAARGH.

And when I say acting screwy, I mean like:

• The on/off switch has more-or-less stopped working, although when I’m fiddling around inside the box I can usually, unintentionally, get the machine to switch on by touching an IDE cable.
• The last few reboots the monitor wasn’t getting any signal from the graphics card. Then suddenly it did.
• The DVD writer only writes things when it feels like it, on its terms (and it recently went offline, and then came back as “new hardware”).
• As already mentioned, hard disks are dropping like flies.
• One of the hard-disk cooler fans has developed noisy bearings. I hate noisy fans (my new fan is super-silent. Oh, and it has blue LEDs, did I mention that? Yet they still only charged me the price of a normal LED-less 35dB fan).
• I don’t know, just fucking everything, alright? You want more? You want suffering? Well fuck you!

So, I may be reading too much into this, but I think the message is (1) get a new computer and (2) get a proper backup strategy. Sadly, I am too poor for (1) and too fucking useless for (2). So what do I do? I’ll tell you what I do, I run into the street and cry “why me, God, why me”.

Also on the plus side, I just watched a DVD of Lost in La Mancha. And I think I’ve got problems?

Somebody please send me a free computer. A G5 would be really nice, but I’m not fussy. Just make sure it’s chocka with hard disks. And memory, I like memory.