The Shallow End of the Pool

Looks like I'll just barely get this post in on time to qualify it as still being Monday (it's currently 11:23 PM), thanks to my latest computer crash.

I've been without my computer since Friday when it mysteriously decided to stop working. The damn thing just wouldn't start, and it's not the first time this has happened to me. I turned the thing on, and was greeted by a blue screen that said something to the effect of "Wow...this thing is so messed up, it's been shut down automatically for your protection." What it should say is "We're not going to let Windows start up because of some minor glitch, so that you have to call up our tech support line and pay them $9,000 to wait on hold for three days while they look into the problem." Well, I'm too smart for them. I decided to let my fingers do the walking and hit The Yellow Book. I called a company called "Saved By The Geek" because they had the best ad, and also because we all know geeks are the best at this kind of thing. The Geek told me that worst case it would take 4 hours to completely do something to my hard drive, at a cost of $217.

Long story short....don't ever pay ANYBODY to fix your computer. I ended up going to the library, went on the computer there, and typed in "Unmountable Boot Volume" into Yahoo (that was the error message my computer was giving me). 20 seconds later I had the answer, and now here I am again.

The point of all this? I don't know...I guess I'm just pissed off that computers are designed to frustrate you at every turn. That just shouldn't be.