Laptop, resurrected. Productivity, still dead.

I got the replacement hard drive from Dell today- fast shipping, one business day. I feel like I’m playing Monopoly, because this is a total Dell Error in My Favor. I had a 100GB drive. They gave me a 120GB drive. Freakin’ sweet. Unfortunately, they sent the thing pre-imaged, but only halfway, so when I … Read more

Dead laptop

My laptop’s hard drive committed suicide at 35,000 feet last night. I was using it on the plane and the whole thing just died. I think a head’s out of place, dragging straight across the platter, because it’s awfully noisy. Nothing will boot, even a Live CD. Luckily I shelled out a couple of benjamins … Read more

Arizona

I’m flying back to Colorado in a couple of hours… I had a blast here. I didn’t do so much of the crazy I-need-to-go-hang-out-with-this-person-for-ten-minutes-now thing as I had planned. I didn’t go to ASU like I wanted… Didn’t have any way of getting there on Friday :-/ I went to McClintock early Friday morning and … Read more

A month…

Wow. It’s been that long already. It totally doesn’t feel like it; part of me still thinks that I’m at camp, and will be going home any day now. But I’m not, and I’m gonna be here for about 8 more months, and that doesn’t bother me at all. I haven’t blogged much in the … Read more

I’ve learned that I’m still bad at doing homework. I’m using the same procrastination-recovery techniques that I did in high school (what class can I ditch so I can do this homework that’s more important?). This is not good- it must change. Other than that, things go good. Not much to say… but that’s not … Read more