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Monday, 9:36 am in Life

Longest.  Weekend.  Ever.

Last Wednesday was Key Day, so I took Friday off to give myself a long weekend for moving into the flat.  I tell you what, after moving interstate and back twice a year every year for four years, I thought I’d kinda gotten ‘down’ with packing and being mobile.  But the thing about uni, of course, was that the only furniture that I moved in all that time was my desk chair.  I didn’t have to disassemble, move and reassemble a bed, three bookcases and two desks.  I didn’t wind up sitting on the floating timber floor in front of the hand-me-down meter-wide plasma TV, with only a plastic-wrapped single matress and a disassembled, unused desk for company because the couch and the coffeetable aren’t going to arrive until December.  Theoretically, the dining table is coming this Friday, but I’ll believe it when I see it; at the moment the dining room contains two plastic outdoor chairs, one plastic outdoor children’s table, two bookcases stacked with roleplaying books and comics, one bar fridge, one TV and a crapload of boxes in various stages of emptiness.

Unfortunatley, I’m one of those people who (generally) can’t stand having unpacked moving boxes hanging around for months on end; I need for things to be all neat and put away.  It’s not that I can’t stand mess, exactly, so much as I can’t stand mess that isn’t activley being used.  Everything needs to have a place, even if it’s not necessarily in it all the time.

To make a long, arduous weekend even better, I managed to break my computer yesterday.  It was kind of the ‘last’ thing I moved over the weekend, mostly because I didn’t want to move it until I’d gotten the desk sorted out, and there was quite a bit of desk to sort out (the ‘study’ is only quite small, and it’s got both of us in it).  Anyway, so last night with the dinner cooked and eaten, the books put away, and pretty much everything sorted out, I decided it was time to plug in Ixxis and play me some games (probably, alas, not Ryzom since we’re only on shared dial-up at the moment).  So I plugged him in all neat and stuff, and booted him up, got the the Windows login screen and… damn, monitors round the wrong way.  I’ve got two monitors, one of which is definatley ‘primary’ and one secondary; I never remember which ‘hole’ in the back of the computer corresponds to which monitor, and annoyingly it’s not intuative (ie. the left monitor does not plug into the left hole).  Now, I don’t know about the wisdom of hot-swapping DVIs, but I’ve always done it before; just yanked the monitors out arbitrarily to share them between other machines or whatever.  Except, when I tried it last night the computer made this really friendly motherboard-level beeping noise and rebooted itself… and kept rebooting.  It would get to the Windows loading screen, tick over a bar, then crash and reboot.  One of the monitors (and only this one; no matter which hole it was plugged into) would bluescreen, but the whole thing was too fast to see what it was saying.

Anyway, I jiggled some cables, all to no avail, so I bought in the Big Guns… but after much prodding and poking ~Mat [h] wasn’t sure what was wrong with it either.  So tonight I try Step 2, which is reformatting Windows.  I fucking hate reformatting Windows.  I mean, it’s not so bad since I keep most of my data and applications on seperate partitions, but it’s still a PITA to start from scratch again… though it’s probably about time I did, realistically.

I hope it works, because Step 3 is buying a new a) motherboard, or b) CPU and, like, I so can’t afford that right now.

Bollocks.

My hands are so dry and scaly after all the cleaning and moving.  Not to mention covered in tiny cuts from where I’ve been careless with my super-sharp new knives.

I want my WoWCards…

• Tags » adventures in everyday life, bitrot, moving, the flat