Bleep Bleep Bleeeeeeep!

Yikes! Let me start off by saying that I am a relatively computer savvy guy. Every once in a while I “let things slip” and something catastrophic happens that results in me having to reformat Windows. Well…it happened again. Here’s a little story for you. Every time that my laptop “falls asleep” there is an annoying little process that I go through to log back in. I have to click the login field, wait for the computer to “unfreeze,” type in a password, and wait as it slowly fires itself up. Well—I decided on Friday night that I was sick of this little ritual. I went into my administrator setting and disabled what I THOUGHT was the right settle. Lo’ and behold—EVERYTHING on my computer is now disabled. I also cannot back up any of my files because it will not allow me to access the internet, burn a CD, throw things on a floppy or thumb drive, or even print things out. BLEEP BLEEP BLEEEEEEP! How sad! I just about freaked when I realized I might not have had another backup of my THESIS. Luckily, under the instruction of my girlfriend a week earlier—I emailed it to myself (the poor man’s backup plan!). Right now I am reinstalling Windows Vista. I won’t make the same mistake twice. Sometimes it’s good to start from a clean slate. It isn’t going to be fun reinstalling programs, downloading music, and parting ways with old term papers and homework. Sigh. You win some you lose some.

-Dan