Posted December 07, 2011
Nothing suicidally terrible, just a lot of smaller nuisances happening seemingly simultaneously.
A friend of mine went on a booze cruise about a week ago and I offered to give him a lift to the port with his car, saving him the trouble of parking or using public transport. Unfortunately I managed to get a parking ticket because the no park zone was marked ambiguously. The friend paid half of it, but still.
Then I tried to get Girlfriend a Christmas present, but of course the store had ran out of stock and would receive a new shipment in January, which might as well be fifteen years from now. Got her something else, then, so no harm done I guess.
Broke the best plate I have. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but I'm really good at breaking crockery and that was the one piece I didn't want to see destroyed. Of course the plate wouldn't die without a fight: it took out my meal with it.
Yesterday I discovered I'd done pathetically badly in an exam (no surprise, really, but I'm still not happy). This was nothing compared to what happened later, though: my computer started hanging and blacking out whenever I did anything, so I tried to update the BIOS and some drivers. When I rebooted, I got freezes, hangs, spontaneous reboots and a few "Uncorrectable hardware error" BSOD's. No idea what's going on, but I'm taking copies of everything to an external HDD just in case. Safe Mode works, but I can't really do much with this POS right now.
EDIT: Now the thing has given up the ghost completely. I suspect the motherboard may be busted.
And finally, we got snow. I was hoping it wouldn't come at all this year, but there we are. My post office is about four kilometres away, which is normally a piece of cake to cycle, but there was sleet raining down, or rather more sideways, as I tried to make my way there. When I arrived, I was soaked, cold, miserable, depressed, angry and pretty much blind. When I got out three minutes later, the hell-making snowfall had ended. And now it's raining. I fucking hate Finland.
A friend of mine went on a booze cruise about a week ago and I offered to give him a lift to the port with his car, saving him the trouble of parking or using public transport. Unfortunately I managed to get a parking ticket because the no park zone was marked ambiguously. The friend paid half of it, but still.
Then I tried to get Girlfriend a Christmas present, but of course the store had ran out of stock and would receive a new shipment in January, which might as well be fifteen years from now. Got her something else, then, so no harm done I guess.
Broke the best plate I have. Doesn't sound like a big deal, but I'm really good at breaking crockery and that was the one piece I didn't want to see destroyed. Of course the plate wouldn't die without a fight: it took out my meal with it.
Yesterday I discovered I'd done pathetically badly in an exam (no surprise, really, but I'm still not happy). This was nothing compared to what happened later, though: my computer started hanging and blacking out whenever I did anything, so I tried to update the BIOS and some drivers. When I rebooted, I got freezes, hangs, spontaneous reboots and a few "Uncorrectable hardware error" BSOD's. No idea what's going on, but I'm taking copies of everything to an external HDD just in case. Safe Mode works, but I can't really do much with this POS right now.
EDIT: Now the thing has given up the ghost completely. I suspect the motherboard may be busted.
And finally, we got snow. I was hoping it wouldn't come at all this year, but there we are. My post office is about four kilometres away, which is normally a piece of cake to cycle, but there was sleet raining down, or rather more sideways, as I tried to make my way there. When I arrived, I was soaked, cold, miserable, depressed, angry and pretty much blind. When I got out three minutes later, the hell-making snowfall had ended. And now it's raining. I fucking hate Finland.
Post edited December 07, 2011 by AlKim
