December 2005 Headlines
| Title | Date | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Songs about Breathing | 12/16 | Music |
December 16, 2005
Songs about Breathing
This past week was the week from hell. I got a terrible flu or something — fever up to 103.5 — starting last Thursday night and running through the weekend, spoiling two planned social events as well as killing the time I had planned to work on my mountain of homework for my Statistics class as well as study for my final in that and in my Microeconomics class and write up that long blog post I haven’t finished yet (shyeah, right!).
And of course, that was topped by the fact that, despite still running a fever of 102, I was going to try and tackle some of the homework on Sunday when I found out that our home PC didn’t boot anymore. Instead, I heard the hard drive doing this:
“scritch scritch scritch scritch”
(pause)
“scritch scritch scritch scritch”
(pause)
This repeated over and over again before I finally got a message that Windows couldn’t boot because some important file was missing or corrupted. Not good. And a Windows XP reinstall (which I performed despite a temperature of 102) only worked temporarily before I got the same problem again (yeah, it’s gotta be a bad drive).
So… no, it was not a good weekend at all. But still, there was a bright side.
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