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[leighblack]

Well. That wasn't exactly what I had in mind for the evening.

Yesterday, my mom asked me to come over tonight and help hang up her Halloween lights outside. And she said she'd feed me dinner. (The #1 rule of always broke, single person living? never turn down free food) Except that when I went over there, they'd ordered Chinese food and she FORGOT that she'd invited me over. =/ Gee, thanks.

I still hung up lights and helped her with some other things. And then my dad tells me their klunky, shitty desktop (like, still-running-fucking-ME shitty) finally died and they wanted to use my brother's old computer. Except that it had several viruses/trojans and would barely run. Why yes, I can't think of anything I'd like to do tonight more than formatting the hard drive and reinstalling XP. But I did it and my dad tossed me $20 for my troubles, so it wasn't a total lost cause.

But this means I yet again am not getting my project 365 photos uploaded tonight. Or uploading my Kasey Chambers or Quietdrive videos to YouTube. =/ Maybe tomorrow.

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[rockerlee.livejournal.com]

Man, what is it with family computer crises today? I actually had to yell at my brother, "I AM NOT TECH SUPPORT!" because I couldn't figure out here in Texas why his computer in Kentucky wouldn't connect to the internet. *eyeroll*

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

My brother occasionally tries to get me to help him fix things on his computer. In Korea. =/

[taleya.livejournal.com]

If it's a regular occurrence, I'd suggest snaffling a copy of Ghost. next time you do a clean install, make a ghost image. Next time it fucks up, it will take a grand total of 10 mins to replace the hosed install with the clean image with everything installed and ready to go :D

Did that to my sister's laptop after installing office, ZA, etc, 'cos I know she'll just hose it...

[leighblack.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip, but I think it'll be fine now. My brother managed to get all the viruses from downloading questionable porn and stuff. But my dad will just be using it to pay bills and such, so it should be fine from now on.