Monthly Archives: January 2006

I’m sick! And other things

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Friday night at about 7pm, my throat started to hurt. Saturday, I’m knocked on my ass. Sore throat, fever (my feet would be freezing but I’d be sweating everwhere else). Today I don’t feel any worse, but I don’t feel well at all. I’m not congested but the base of my throat is all scratchy and makes me cough. Last night I woke up ever single hour to cough. The only way to stop coughing is to force myself to ignore the itching feeling in my throat and not cough. A lot easier said then done. Yesterday I coughed so hard I threw up (yeah I was suprised too). I really need some cough medicine, that should make a big difference.

My computer is basically fixed. I had to buy a new dvd burner because my other one broke. Perfect timing with the heat sink, fan and hard drive failing on me. Now I’m just missing some documents that I can hopefully salvage from the old drive. I really need them.

This better fix my computer

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My computer is still on injured reserve. Had to get a new 80 gig hd to replace my original drive. There is a serious error on the original drive that is basically crippling the system and is just fucking up the repair process. So putting XP on this new drive and sending the old one to the moon should solve the slowness and all of the errors I keep getting. On the plus side the over heating issue has been fixed with the new (gigantic) fan. It’s been pushing a month since my computer has run like it should, I can’t wait to get it back to normal.

I got new blinds on my bedroom windows and I can now make it dark as a cave in here. It’s awesome. They look like wood blinds and they work like…well, new blinds. I sleep like a champ now that the fucking street light isn’t right on my face at night.

Day 15

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Computer still screwed. Sort of. It’s been narrowed down to a shitty boot section in my main hard drive. This results in a boot up that takes forever and overall crummy performance. Waiting on getting software to partion my 200 gig drive so XP can be installed on a section and use the rest for storage.

And after 6 weeks, Lost is finally back. After a vacation like that this better be an awesome episode.

Some random mentions

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My new CPU fan came today, Jon and I should be installing it today. Then we are nuking my main drive and putting a fresh XP install. That’ll probably take 3 hours to get everything running 100%. A ton of software/hardware updates need to be done. Pain in the ass, but the computer needs it. My DVD burner is messed up, I’m hoping this will fix it.

If anyone is looking for a new mouse, you gotta get the Logitech wireless MX Laser mouse. I think it’s the MX 200. 55 bucks on Amazon and it’s awesome. Really comfortable, a charge last a long time and it only takes an hour to recharge it to 100%.

Howard Stern started his Sirius career today. He got a rediculous stock share from pulling in the most subscribers SIRI has ever seen in a quarter. Retarded, yes, but I own SIRI stock so if the company keeps doing well, I’m going to do well too. Now if my XM stock will go back up, I’ll be doing really well.

Another random bit, Optimum Voice works really well. If you have a phone bill that goes over $35 bucks a month, there is no reason not to switch. You get a ton of features and never have to worry about long distance charges. The voice quality is tops too.

I’ll be back again when my computer is back in prime form.