there may be hope afterall

there might be some salvaging of my laptop and I hope this is true. My dad says he THINKS the motherboard is fried but he's going to take the laptop to one of his friends to have him look at it. If it is the motherboard and the hard drive is still good, my dad said I should buy a hard drive case which would turn my laptop hard drive into basically an external hard drive that I could plug into a computer using a usb port. AWESOME! I also looked at external hard drives to possibly replace the one my boss is trying to get to work again. I'll need something large enough if I'm going to rebuild my music/tv show/movie collection. My dad pointed out a 500GB for what he said was a good price.

Like I said I hope this is the case. We went to Fry's last night (I looked at the laptops, movies & books with my mom) and I don't know what my dad looked at, but he bought the new Star Trek movie. I bought my favorite movie, Constantine (it was only $9) and my mom bought Stigmata and Blade 2 (it was $4!).

My dad wants to go back for the after Thanksgiving sale but I don't get paid until the 29th. I could totally ask for and get my check early, but I know me. I'd be too tempted to spend it all, and I have bills due at the start of December.

it was nice while it lasted

I'm 99% sure my dad and I (yes I'm taking responsibility for it as well) killed my laptop.

it'd been overheating and the little external fan I had wasn't much help. we took it apart, took a bunch of dust out and it was working ok. Still overheating so that meant there was more dust.

when my dad got home from picking my mom up from work we went through and got to work un-dusting it again. my dad went a but crazy with the canned air. vapor was coming out and I asked if that would mess with the laptop in any way. he said no, but something told me that wasn't true. we put it back together and I turned it on. the hard drive wasn't going. I TOLD my dad not to mess with the hard drive. but he still did. there was power. I felt the air coming from where the fan was and the green lights were on, but no orange light saying the hard drive was going. GREAT! I call him back to my room, we take it apart, put it back together and the same thing. "You're in big trouble" he tells me. I'M IN BIG TROUBLE?! he's the one who went crazy with the canned air and messed with the hard drive!

Now I have no laptop and no external hard drive! I'll be taking laptop to place I bought it for them to look at it. hopefully it can be fixed & won't cost a lot.

I swore to myself I wouldn't let him tinker with my laptop as much as he has in the last 2 months and look at what happened! This refurbished laptop lasted me about 20 months. No telling when I'll have the money saved up to buy myself a new one.

eta: oh! big plus! I found the cell phone I had before the one that was stolen! and it still had a sim card! coming back to cell world soon!

still lost

finally got a "live body" with the insurance company who covered my phone. I asked abt the type of replacement phone I'd get if I placed a claim with them and the lady told me the only way she'd know that is if they start the claim process. well I don't have the deductible.

If I ask my mom for the money, I won't be able to pay her back until sometime in December, which would screw up my Christmas shopping

you win electronic universe

so...I'm pretty sure I broke my external hard drive...

I plug it in and it lights up, so I know it's getting power, but nothing else happens. Before that it would freeze in the process of transferring and anything that did transfer was said to be "corrupted" when I tried to open it. I magically did something because it was working fine up until about 2 hours ago when I tried transferring some videos when it would freeze...and now not do anything.

with the exception of Castle 208 Kill the Messenger, FlashForward 108 Playing Cards with Coyote and anything I haven't downloaded, ALL my music, tv shows and other videos/movies are on it!

edit 1: ugh! 3 times I said it's NOT my computer/laptop giving me problems and 3 times this girl tells me that I need more ram in my computer! UGH! as "technologically advanced" as you claim to be, you should know what I mean when I said external hard drive! 2 different devices connected by a usb cord

edit 2: and I removed her. I don't need someone telling me not to feel a certain way when I just lost 6000+ mp3s, videos and some other pictures! and if her friend tells me anything, she's gone too. I don't care if they say it's petty high school crap.

edit 3: so my boss said not to toss it. to bring it to church and she or her husband would try to get my music

what a relief!

my cousin didn't get my e-mail I sent her last week about my cell being stolen and she'd been calling me and there's a recorded message saying "per the subscriber's request, they aren't accepting incoming calls" and she thought I was avoiding her.

she came over to see me and we chatted for a while. then I asked about our other cousin Brenda (the one who had swine flu and pregnant). well she's better, out of the hospital and had her baby 11/6...that's a little over 2 weeks past her due date and everyone is healthy.

I'm so happy! planning my visit to see them now

and that's the end of that

I finally put an end to a 20+ yrs friendship I was desperately trying to cling to by being facebook friends with my ex best friend's mother. I took the mother off my friends list and that's the end of that.

I know that from time to time I'm going to think about them and wonder how they're doing, but I don't need to be reminded that they don't want anything to do with me every time I see pictures from their fun times with friends.

it's not worth my time and energy to complain to my mom and current best friend about how they don't want anything to do with me or whatever.

PS: my dad got my laptop working. apparently the internal fan was so clogged that Windows & my laptop knew it was best not to go any farther than it was going before shutting down. I still want to get a new computer, but at the moment, the ones I want are too expensive so increasing my ram to make it faster will probably be best. that'll happen my next paycheck or so.

*grumble grumble*

I can't get my laptop to stay on. I can't get Windows to load. I guess Windows not loading has to do with the fact that MY LAPTOP WON'T STAY ON!

I can't even log in on safe mode because the laptop will shut off.

went through 13.5 hrs of defragging last night and a scan for viruses only to not be able to use it today! what kind of mess is that!? Plus, it's still getting really hot and the plug in fan I have doesn't seen to be cooling it down any.

this is really making me mad.