Bertha

Fucking OW!

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Feb 282007
 

Monday, my period started with a vengeance. Tuesday I was treated to some truly memorable cramping. In the morning I was in so much pain my hands were shaking. I was sitting in my English class, trying to pay attention to the instructor, and observing the trembling in my hands. It would have been very interesting at another time, but right then I was just thinking, “Damn, if they’re shaking like that it means I can’t perform self-surgery with my ball-point pen and gouge that bitch out of my gut. Which is too bad, because it would hurt less.”

And guys wonder why women don’t appreciate jokes about PMS.

 Posted by at 9:34 am

Puter Go Blooey

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Feb 262007
 

Friday morning I booted up as usual, checked my mail and my LJ friends page, shut down and headed off to class.

Friday afternoon I turned on the computer to start on my homework (kids: “You have homework on weekends?” Yep, and if you make it into college, so will you). Got the usual booting screen, but instead of a login screen it all went black.

Tried power cycling it. Nada.

My mate, the alpha geek, had a look at it Saturday. Seems my password database got corrupted somehow. He might have been able to drag it back from the dead, but it would have taken a lot of work and he already does that kind of thing all day long. Anything I care about was saved to the server anyway, so I told him to just wipe it and re-install Windows from scratch. I’ve spent most of today re-installing software and re-configuring most of it to find the data files in my server directory.

In other news, my grandmother is back in the hospital. Hopefully she’ll be out in a week or two. I’m going to try and go by to see her today or tomorrow.

 Posted by at 7:54 am

Busted!

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Feb 222007
 

Last week I was at a fairly large, busy intersection—one of those with cars going through in so many directions that the red cycle seems quite long. The person at the head of the queue was apparently napping, or lost in thought, or otherwise occupied when the light went green, and he didn’t move until just before our brief green turned yellow.

Two or three of the cars behind him did not have the patience to wait through the red cycle again. Three or four more cars scooted through after the brief yellow was over. Guess who was one of them!

Running a red light 1
Running a red light 2

And thanks to the traffic cameras at the intersection, I now have my fifteen seconds of fame with the DMV!

 Posted by at 12:31 pm
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