Ock Ock Ock! (Megapixel the Third??)

Jun
14

New news: I might be getting yet another replacement laptop. Sigh. I’ve got dead pixels*

(Actually, they’re not dead pixels, they’re half-lit — ie there’s a haze of faint red, green, and blue pixels whenever I’m viewing something dark. I hate them.)

on this one, so I have to send it off to Hewlett-Packard in Ontario for repairs. I have to say, I’m much more impressed with their phone technical support than their Internet support — I’m pretty sure they just found a couple of chat-addicted 13 year-olds and put them on the web site.

So, this means that my beloved computer will be gone for two weeks — I can deal with that. I’ve got Steve over here with his removal hard drive, and I figure I’ll borrow a few dozen gigs and if I they need to format it, which they might not need to do, getting back online will be much easier. I’m not sure if they’ll be swapping out the screen or just sending me a new machine. Time will tell.

Moving along, my Scottish relatives arrive in less than three weeks. This is awesome, because they’re great and I love them. The last time I saw them was 1999, when Mom and Mary Anne and I got to wander around the countryside. Good time. We’ve got Brian, Mary Rose, their two daughters (Victoria and Rachel), and John coming to stay in our house. It’s gonna be cramped, but fun. There are rumours that two more of our relatives (Anna and Martin) will be coming over too, since Darryl’s getting married. They’re not staying with us, though. Getting around to my original point, we’re painting the spare bedroom tomorrow. I have no idea what colour it will be, but anything’s better than the baby blue color we’ve got right now.

Anyway, this brings the world up to date. Cheers.

5:31 PM on Monday, June 14th, 2004.

Comments

Keddy@home

@ 5:43 pm on June 14th

so many laptops… such a short time…

Pugs

@ 6:14 pm on June 14th

You know if you would just stop letting Janet kick them all the time it wouldn’t be a problem. Unless Janet was lying when she said she had your permission to kick them.

Steve

@ 1:37 am on June 15th

Um I only have 26 gigs left of free space on my drive thats crazy.

Tony

@ 2:48 am on June 15th

If you still need somewhere to back yo’ shizzle up, tell me, I’ll bring over my 160gb drive.

Mark@Couch

@ 2:59 am on June 15th

That’d be cool, Tony, cos Steve’s drive doesn’t seem to like my laptop much. Give me a call tomorrow. And by tomorrow, I mean after I sleep.

Pugs

@ 3:29 am on June 15th

so not now.

Tony

@ 1:42 am on June 16th

I’m hoping that tommorow means wednesday

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