Your morning should never start out with a “Blue Screen of Death.” It just does not bode well. Yes, folks, sadly, that is what awaited me this morning on the pretty little laptop when I got up. A big ol' uninviting blue screen with aliased text and threatening language full of hexadecimal codes and warnings. It said that something was wrong with my computer. Now, 1.5 hours later, I still don't know exactly what. It seemed to be a hard drive failure. But my Indian friends at Dell seem to think Windows screwed itself up (a likely cause, I'll admit). And so now, I'm waiting while the computer does the check disk operation. Hopefully my hard drive is OK. I mean, I backed up last week, but a lot can happen in a week.
I'm trying to keep a good sense of humor about it. It doesn't really help in these situations to get all fiesty and upset. You just make mistakes and do dumb things. So I'm looking at it as a very good anecdote. Positive Positive Positive. 