Friday, December 28, 2007

My laptop is possessed

Ok my laptop is seriously out of control. Ok nothing is apparently wrong with it. It just seems to do what it wants when it wants. A few months ago I wrote about the battery not charging that was it first issue. This past month however I think maybe its just trying to make me crazy. See I was cleaning my kitchen a few weeks ago. I was listening to the laptop in the kitchen and it was sitting on top of my space heater (which was not on because though I might not be a genius I'm just not that stupid either). Anyways to make a long story short I dropped it while it was still open when I went to put it away. So I ran back into the other room and tried to plug it in to see what kind of damage I had done, and of course it wouldn't turn on. Here's the thing try as I might for about two hours, I still couldn't get it to work. Then I went to my sisters, borrowed my nieces laptop, came back home the next day. Then just for fun I tried the power button on my computer. Didn't do anything except open it up and press power. The crazy thing turned on.
No problems everything worked just fine. I was a little scared to unplug and move it at all since I was afraid it might never work again, but today I got sick of tripping over the cord so I decided to give it a go. It worked again. No problems.
Then my next feet was to upload some pictures I took from Christmas. That it appeared wasn't going to go as planned. I did however manage to re-load the needed software and re-boot my computer. Funny thing I notice after I did this. The power meter was up, I haven't seen this in awhile even though its always suppose to be on the task bar (Again I don't understand). When I clicked on it the battery was magically charged. I didn't really believe it because the computer hasn't even read that I had a battery in months. Now its fully or at least 90% charged.
I don't know when it charged itself up or how for that matter. The one thing I feel vindicated on is that the problem is clearly not my battery. My computer however seems to have a wicked mind of its own. Be afraid be very afraid.

shopping hell

I only ventured out of the house on one occasion to do some Christmas shopping. Otherwise I bought online or at work. However my sister wanted wine glasses, and though I tried to shop online but I just wasn't finding what I wanted. Here's where the problem starts. See I have what I consider to be fun wine glasses. What makes them fun is that they are different from what everyone else has. I bought them individually not in a set, so of course I thought my sister should have fun wine glasses too. I was then on a mission to find the perfect wine glasses. I was excited about this at first. Until I learned that I would have to walk to miles in the cold to get there (no car). Oh well I thought I bundled up and started out.
Now the walk itself seemed to take forever, but thats probably because I was on the phone, and my hand was going numb, so I wasn't really walking that fast. Anyway I went to the first store, and found nothing, same pretty much with store two through six. Now I did find some that were alright, and I might consider, but considering them was not making me very happy. Mostly what I was looking at were the exact same glasses with different names and different prices. I was starting to get crabby. No for the record I wasn't crabby to start with. After the 12 store or so I was just getting angry. The problem was I couldn't go home until I found them otherwise my sister would have no Christmas present.
The last store I went into was call Z Gallerie which at first I thought sold beds because of the Z. Like I said I was irritated and not thinking. I went inside thinking it would be like every other store I just visited, and was immediately surprised. I found very nice glasses as soon as I walked in. Then I found awesome glasses around every corner. Then I couldn't really decide on which ones to buy because I wanted them all. I did have to remember I was buying them for my sister and not me. I could decide though so I bought three different kinds which would make two different sets of four. In the end I was excited. Mostly at the thought of going back and buying myself some. I kid I kid. I was excited that she like them too.