Hiatus

Yesterday i looked out my window and thought, Hey, palm trees! I mean, not everyone in the world can say that. Life ain't so bad!

The moiré effect is caused by the window screen and entirely unintentional, not an artistic statement. LOL.

So it's been a tumultuous few days. The big whoop that kept me from posting started last Friday when Windows XP wouldn't load. When i couldn't even get Safe Mode to run, my heart sank. Basically that day i paced around, restless and detached from the civilized world. I did eventually settle for some magazine reading, but it was just the weirdest, most helpless feeling.

Turned out this "freeze at mup.sys" problem was widely known among WIN users. You know, it is so unfounded that geeks are purportedly socially awkward. If you read the forum, you'll see that these are fun people with a wicked sense of humor. Cool, even. (Some dude signed off with "peace out"!)

Anywho, after much ado of trial-and-error in BIOS setup, IDE cable swap, and tweaking Device Manager (some geek somewhere is getting a hard-on), my machine was finally fully functional again last night. Yay! The world is right again.

Blogging is kinda like exercise. Once you drop the ball, it's kinda hard to pick it back up. But here i am. Just one day at a time.