It lives!
inally I’ve got my new computer! I almost had it a couple of weeks ago, but then I didn’t. But that’s a story best told with a ridiculous number of photos (don’t say I didn’t warn you). So, without further ado, how to build a computer:
Here MrPloppy points out the tight corner where I need to insert all that memory.
Except it wasn’t. Because that’s where it all started to go horribly wrong. First MrPloppy discovered that he’d installed Windows to the hard drive instead of the SSD – not a good thing, considering the whole point of paying for an expensive SSD was that the operating system runs much faster off it than off a hard drive. So then the saga began, of uninstalling and reinstalling, and uninstalling and reinstalling again, over and over, until finally the computer cooperated and put Windows where it should be. And then it wasn’t there. And then it was. And then it wasn’t. And when it was, it couldn’t see the hard drive. Or it would just crash randomly a few minutes after startup. Or a host of other problems.
So the next step was a week or so of fiddling with BIOS settings, testing, pulling the insides apart to try and figure out which bit wasn’t working (see cable ties not being such a clever idea), testing again, and general tearing of hair out.
Eventually MrPloppy narrowed it down to a faulty SSD. So he contacted the supplier, arranged to have it returned, and eventually, after a long wait spent watching the drive for the courier’s van, a replacement finally arrived.
And so, let me present my shiny new computer in all its glory:
It’s even shinier in the dark, when it shows off its pretty blue lights:
In other news:
The last of my secret stash of marmite has finally run out. I’d been rationing it out ever since they announced the factory was closing due to earthquake damage (luckily we happened to have bought a couple of jars a few days before), but they’ve kept putting the production date further and further back, and my scrapings have been getting thinner and thinner, and now they’re saying they won’t be in production until the end of September at least, and my last jar is empty. 🙁
Vegemite just isn’t the same.
(And for those of you in the UK, neither is your kind of marmite – NZ marmite is a completely different beast).
RYC: yeah I kinda figured as much, especially as the woman doing the reading really wasn’t all that good. Or maybe they are all that bad, dunno, never done it before. But I did make note of the cards and the order they went in so I could look them up myself as well. If i had known you knew the cards I would have kept my notes to see what you made of them. My friend had hers done after mine and hers was ‘surprisingly’ more accurate and detailed…. couldn’t possibly be because of the information that lady already got out of me right? lol
Hope all is well in your shaky little corner of the world!
Yeah, I used to love it when two people would come in for a reading together, because the friend would always provide so much information for me! 🙂
I’ve forgotten most of the card meanings now, but I reckon I could still convincingly fake it…
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