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I dislike being hit in the communcation cortex. It makes me ornery.
Yesterday, amid various and sundry slow internet issues, EPEEN BSOD'ed. Restarting it went to chkdsk, indicating a dirty volume, provoking much sighing and stalking off to play through a couple decks of Set to calm myself down. When it got through and Windows started up again, Pidgin refused to load. It woud draw the buddy list window and then "Pidgin has encountered a problem and needs to close. NO IMS FOR YOU." Looks like I'm stuck using Meebo until I can take a few minutes to paw through the registry and reinstall.
This afternoon my phone started acting up. First of all it's been shutting down spontaneously all week. Today it froze when I tried to send a text message. After scratching my head, I managed to get it shut down and rebooted. Then while diving for an incoming call from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cell23, it froze again and wouldn't come back.
GREAT TIMING, I'd like to mention. *fume*
I needed to get out of the house anyway, so I went to the AT&T service center in Manhattan, which is entirely staffed by hot black techies. Every cloud has a silver lining I suppose. Unfortunately, they pronounced my phone dead at 5:56PM EST. Alas, they do not actually sell cellys there, so back on the train with me, where I went to the AT&T store around the corner from the House and picked up this new blue thing that I'm not quite sure I like yet. Oh yeah, did I mention these folks kicked my free upgrade option back six months when I got my phone line severed from Stacey's account? So I had to pay the early upgrade fine on top of the phone. Fuckers. So now I'm back under contract to AT&T for two years. Oh the fuck well. I had no interest in switching anyway. Silver lining #2 - apparently I'd never set my old phone to store new numbers to the phone rather than the sim card. So I didn't actually lose any of my #s. Woot. Also we likeses the qwerty keyboard.
Maybe I should go off the grid for a bit. I have been feeling a bit of the communication overload lately. I just don't really like being forced off, you know?
Plans for the evening include phone setup (here's hoping I can force my bluetooth thingie to work one more time), Season #2 of South Park, The Soup, and HATING EVERYTHING.
Yesterday, amid various and sundry slow internet issues, EPEEN BSOD'ed. Restarting it went to chkdsk, indicating a dirty volume, provoking much sighing and stalking off to play through a couple decks of Set to calm myself down. When it got through and Windows started up again, Pidgin refused to load. It woud draw the buddy list window and then "Pidgin has encountered a problem and needs to close. NO IMS FOR YOU." Looks like I'm stuck using Meebo until I can take a few minutes to paw through the registry and reinstall.
This afternoon my phone started acting up. First of all it's been shutting down spontaneously all week. Today it froze when I tried to send a text message. After scratching my head, I managed to get it shut down and rebooted. Then while diving for an incoming call from
cell23, it froze again and wouldn't come back.GREAT TIMING, I'd like to mention. *fume*
I needed to get out of the house anyway, so I went to the AT&T service center in Manhattan, which is entirely staffed by hot black techies. Every cloud has a silver lining I suppose. Unfortunately, they pronounced my phone dead at 5:56PM EST. Alas, they do not actually sell cellys there, so back on the train with me, where I went to the AT&T store around the corner from the House and picked up this new blue thing that I'm not quite sure I like yet. Oh yeah, did I mention these folks kicked my free upgrade option back six months when I got my phone line severed from Stacey's account? So I had to pay the early upgrade fine on top of the phone. Fuckers. So now I'm back under contract to AT&T for two years. Oh the fuck well. I had no interest in switching anyway. Silver lining #2 - apparently I'd never set my old phone to store new numbers to the phone rather than the sim card. So I didn't actually lose any of my #s. Woot. Also we likeses the qwerty keyboard.
Maybe I should go off the grid for a bit. I have been feeling a bit of the communication overload lately. I just don't really like being forced off, you know?
Plans for the evening include phone setup (here's hoping I can force my bluetooth thingie to work one more time), Season #2 of South Park, The Soup, and HATING EVERYTHING.
