This holiday weekend has been a mostly unfrusterating carnival of technological mishaps for me. Or maybe now that it’s over, I’m forgetting the frusteration I felt Saturday afternoon.
First, my headphones that I use to watch House on my laptop (I actually prefer that because it has better sound/picture than my TV) and listen to pump-it-up music on my phone stopped working. Okay, it was still half working: the left half. What can I say, left is better!
Then, the biggest issue happened Saturday. While I was cleaning my room and my laptop was supposed to be minding it’s own business, it decided to get freaky on me. It’s only 9 months old (a mere baby…okay, child), but for whatever reason no matter how many different fixes I tried, it would not get past a certain point in the start up. Every type of system restore I attempted wouldn’t work because there was something wrong with the disc (really? hadn’t noticed) and needed to run the Scan Disc thing. Of course, that would require it to fully start up…
I consider myself decently handy when it comes to computer things, but this was beyond my skill set…at least my old skill set. I ended up having to reinstall Windows on my lappy and all the rest of the programs. I’m very thankful that I didn’t really have plans this weekend, so I had time to get it back in working order!
The last technological mishap comes from Facebook. For whatever reason, all the updates are stuck at Saturday afternoon. Of course, that means that it’s full of “I’m so excited for the game!” and “Boomer Sooner!” Like rubbing salt in the wound…
Seriously though, this weekend has been relaxing, with double the alone time and doing pittly things time. I’m very thankful for these types of weekends, especially when they fall between two very busy weeks! I hope you had a wonderful weekend as well!
Goodmorning FGD…oh, what in the world did you do before the world of electronics???
Oh my! the number of times sam has had to uninstall and reinstall Windows on our PC!! My lappy is doing good so far but I know it’s only a matter of time before it just decides not to love me anymore. Facebook has done that to me before too…just recently in fact. I can’t remember what day it was stuck on, but I remember thinking, “haven’t I read all of this already?” LOL
Electronic mishaps are the worst. I’ve had the headphone thing happen many times.
The facebook thing yesterday was really weird. I was getting posts from Saturday on my homepage.
I bought one of those cheap notebook computers, and I have had to fully reinstall everything twice. That’s what I get for being cheap, I guess.
My Facebook was messed up with the status updates as well.
Just stumbled on your blog!
My Facebook was giving me old post too. At first I thought my friend typed the same post. I’m think didn’t I comment on that already then realized it was a day old.
Technology and me and like……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………THAT.
Hope you get all your kinks worked out! :)
Okay, that posted weirdly. Right in keeping with the kinks! It was supposed to say, “Technology and me are like…..THAT. LOL
Wow, it does sound like you’re have quite the time there. I didn’t know that Facebook knows how not to act up?
I can relate to the laptop thing though. My fiance managed to wipe the entire hard drive on my computer once. (Did I mention that I had a score borrowed from another school scanned on there, the project was due the next day, and the original score had already been sent back?)
Currently I am stuck using my laptop (which is much slower than my desktop) because the heat sink on my desktop (or should I say no longer on) decided to detach itself during our move.
Hopefully you manage to get everything back to normal soon. What kind of head phones were you using? My fiance picked up a pair of Bose ear buds and they are amazing (certainly worth paying the extra money for).
Hi :)
Look at this way. At least you had the disks to reformat your computer to begin with! I need to and can’t find it!
I noticed that on Facebook over the weekend. It went back and forth from current to a day or two old. Weird.
Computer problems freak me out. I feel so inept!
G. Zoe: I don’t know…I think my life would look much different!
Joy: Today I noticed facebook is back at it…except for the posts are from random different times over the last few days.
Robynn: The irony!
Ashley: I bought a pair of Sony ones. Not the cheapest, but not overly expensive, either. What can I say, I’m cheap!
Iva: Yes, very thankful.
Jennifer: I find it very stretching.