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Apr. 16th, 2011 04:40 pmI haven't been around much lately, and I won't be for a while yet, because I have no computer at home. (I'm typing this on my roomie's laptop, which isn't the most comfortable way to do it.)
You see, we had a storm. In a way, we were lucky/blessed, because my computer and router were the only casualties. We had a couple of the metal panels on the barn shift, and we lost some branches, but only small ones. Across the street, two trees were uprooted and our neighbor's flagpole was broken in four places. A few miles north of us, it looked like a tornado had gone through - there were huge trees that were either split apart or completely uprooted, a couple of shed/barn structures were collapsed, and some carports had been lifted up, twisted like pretzels, and thrown into trees and against fences. A few miles west of us, trailers at the U-Haul place had been thrown across the road against a fence and totally destroyed. In Dallas, one place got 8" of hail, some of it baseball-sized.
At our house, it was relatively mild, which was why I didn't unplug my PC when it woke me up. DUMB. There was only one big crack of lightning, but that was enough.
My router is replaced, but I have to send my PC down to my dad in Florida to get it fixed. But that's not the end of my woes. At work, my PC has been freezing at random moments; it just stops working, and the only thing to do is hold in the power button until it reboots. Our IR guy has tried everything he can think of - including reformatting the entire hard drive - with no success. There are now about three guys working on it, and apparently there is something of the sort going on in scattered places all around campus. Not a virus, however. I think it has something to do with the fact that they're moving the servers. Anyway, right now I'm using a loaner laptop at work as well as at home!
And as if that wasn't enough, the screen died on my cell phone. *sigh*
You see, we had a storm. In a way, we were lucky/blessed, because my computer and router were the only casualties. We had a couple of the metal panels on the barn shift, and we lost some branches, but only small ones. Across the street, two trees were uprooted and our neighbor's flagpole was broken in four places. A few miles north of us, it looked like a tornado had gone through - there were huge trees that were either split apart or completely uprooted, a couple of shed/barn structures were collapsed, and some carports had been lifted up, twisted like pretzels, and thrown into trees and against fences. A few miles west of us, trailers at the U-Haul place had been thrown across the road against a fence and totally destroyed. In Dallas, one place got 8" of hail, some of it baseball-sized.
At our house, it was relatively mild, which was why I didn't unplug my PC when it woke me up. DUMB. There was only one big crack of lightning, but that was enough.
My router is replaced, but I have to send my PC down to my dad in Florida to get it fixed. But that's not the end of my woes. At work, my PC has been freezing at random moments; it just stops working, and the only thing to do is hold in the power button until it reboots. Our IR guy has tried everything he can think of - including reformatting the entire hard drive - with no success. There are now about three guys working on it, and apparently there is something of the sort going on in scattered places all around campus. Not a virus, however. I think it has something to do with the fact that they're moving the servers. Anyway, right now I'm using a loaner laptop at work as well as at home!
And as if that wasn't enough, the screen died on my cell phone. *sigh*