new and depressing

Last night while I was having a blast meeting my kids’ teachers, my beloved Dell Inspiron E1505 was busy bricking.

A 10pm phone call to Dell support resulted in a wiped hard drive and the total paperweighting of a once great machine.

This morning I ran out and bought the cheapest thing I could find which was a Compaq Presario C700. Funny: it was so cheap yet it’s got scads more space, twice as much memory and is oodles faster than the Dell.

All that and I’m still upset. I lost some files but not a whole lot. I use an online backup service for everything important. Spent almost $500 that I didn’t need to spend and that is depressing, but I have so many jobs now that it’s not a bank breaker. Stretcher, but not a breaker.

I think I’m upset that I had really invested in that computer and even though it was starting to slow down, it worked very well. I think the hard drive is damaged because we couldn’t get it to load the windows reinstallation disk that came with it! Or perhaps that new iTunes version was borking XP as well as Vista.

Speaking of Vista, it’s what I’m stuck with using now. I couldn’t find anything with XP on it.

I’ll get over it. Eventually.