"Hello, boys. I'm baaaaaack."

Well, I'm back online from home, I guess. I copied around a couple of DLLs in my system directory and now when I start up Windows I don't get a catastrophic error -- just a few errors. Windows is stupid. I want a Mac.

I worked this past week doing some software stuff for the school, and I thought, "oh, I'll get a new computer with the money". Why, it'll be a tax write off and everytyhing.

So, there I am, about 10 minutes into the pilot episode of Sports Night -- my folks gave me a gift cert to Amazon.com, so guess what I bought? -- when the dvd player and TV went "foop!" and turned off.

This has actually happened before. Normally, I just turn everything back on, and go about my business.

Normalcy eluded me this time.

Turn everything back on? Check.

Go about business? No. Unless "going about my business" includes looking at a screen full of static. I wiggled the wires connecting the DVD player to my TV, and cussed alot.

Then I popped in a tape and confirmed the TV/VHS player is working correctly. (It's a combined unit.)

Then I wiggled some more stuff and tried my DVD in the (connected) DVD player. No dice.

I suppose tomorrow I'll go buy a new batch of connectors. The DVD player looks like it's playing, it's just not on the screen. So, maybe the video wire died, if I'm lucky.

This, however, made me excessively annoyed. Though, I should be glad I saw "Serenity" before things went "foop!" (the other thing I purchased with my gift cert), that's only a little lining on my cloud.

So, realizing this was the first "downtime" where I was actually sitting in front of my computer, and free to curse as freely as I liked without J's mom smacking me upside the head, I tried booting into linux, logging on as root, and copying a DLL.

And here I am. Huh.

I'm still going for a new computer. I can write it off on my taxes as a business expense.

So. I'm going to go watch "Sports Night" on my computer now.