>Doctor: I have good news and I have bad news …

Now, just in case y’all are bored to tears after my heartfelt explanation as to why I like orange, here’s what’s been keeping me busy … and a little frustrated recently.
With all the talk about health care reform (don’t worry, not going there on this blog post), the health of my almost five year old desktop computer has been of concern over the last week and a half. My 19 year old son had been typing in a lovely birthday thought for me, and when he went to print it, it wouldn’t. So he rebooted, which led to a Windoze error that said “FIX ME!!!”
Well, the only problem is that it is pretty hard to repair a Windoze (XP Pro) installation without an administrative password. I built the computer myself, so I could’ve sworn that I didn’t give it an admin password.
So after a week of trying this and that, I boxed it up and took it to the IT guy at work. He said, “No problem! I can reset the password for you.” So when he hooked up the hard disk, it wouldn’t recognize that it WAS a hard drive. “This hard drive is CRASHED!!!”
Oh, really. I guess that must have happened the day before, when I was putting it into the protective plastic case it had come in. It seemed to have slipped out of the case as I was trying to attach the two Viewmaster looking things. Yep, it fell on the floor of my office at home. But it has nice soft carpet.
Oh well, I’ve stuck another hard disk into the computer this evening and have been reinstalling the system. Fortunately I have good backups of it, and shouldn’t have lost anything important. In fact I had made a complete copy onto a fresh external hard drive just before I … put it into the plastic case to protect it.
It will be good practice as I’ll be building a new and improved desktop in a couple months. You’d better let Fry’s know I’m coming. And by the way, I do have an admin password now, and I’ve documented it very well, thank you.