Halls of the Dark Muse

I was sitting on my computer last night (and as some of you may recall the battery on my laptop had permanently died and I haven't got around to replacing it yet) so the computer has to be plugged in to use, but the plug is kind of touchy so it can easily get knocked loose. I was on the couch and when I moved to change positions the plug came loose and I lost power, now this is not the first time this has happened, and usually it is no big deal. I plug it back in and turn it on when this message comes up saying the windows could not start properly and gave all these different options.

I tell it to start windows normally and it ends up just going back to the message again, so than I select this other option that says Restart with last known configuration to work, but still get the same thing, and I try the Safe Mode option but it still will not work.

Eventually I have to give up for the night and go to bed, and I still operate under the wishful fantasy that gnomes will come out at night and fix my computer for me, unfortunately this never seems to work, I cannot imagine why.

With the failure of high tech gnomes and being that unfortunately I do not possess my own personal techi-geek slave (it any one would like to apply for said position, applications always welcome) I did the next best thing and call my sister to borrow her husband. I explain to him the problem but unfortunately it was beyond the ability of over the phone help and he said that the system would probably have to be rebooted with a disk and if I did not have any around the house than I would have to take it to somebody who could reboot it for me.

Well as it happens I do have a cousin who is good with computers, though we are not very close, not that we do not get along or any such thing we just are not in regular contact with each other and we do not really know each other that well. But he is a nice enough guy and likes messing around with computers so I got in touch with him and he wasn't doing anything so he came over to take a look at the computer.

As it turns out, he says that he thinks that something happened to the hardrive, so he took the computer with him to run some more tests and he says he think he might have an old hardrive he could install.

While obviously I still do have accesses to a computer, I really do not like this computer. It is better than nothing and usable for the time but in addition to the fact that it does not have some of my personal stuff on it, using it is also a bit like playing Russian Roulette, as in you never quite know what is going to happen next, and doing anything on it is a risk. It is a bit like a crack addict, twitchy and spasztastic. Not too mention slow.