punkadixon

July 22nd 2004 was not in any noticeable way different from the 21st of July, or the 21st of June, or the 15th of May for that matter. After work, I went to the gym and then out to dinner.

Later, I came home and prepared for bed.

Yet later, intoxicated, I sat down to watch Charlton Heston's triumphant Soylent Green and promptly passed out before his first scene.

July 23rd seemed pretty normal too, except that it was unusually bright outside for noon. Squinting, I brought my self to my computer and sat, eager to see whats new in SGland. (shut up, Im soooooo not a loser)

That is when I realized that Fred, my friendly looking little webcam, had sabotaged my computer. It froze, okay, that happens. But on restart I saw strange new words my computer had never shared with me before. Words like "imminent" and "failure", "WARNING" and "back up" and "data"....all perilously close to each other on the screen.

That little bastard webcam.

So I returned the camera and am waiting on an XP disk from a friend and, perhaps, a new hard drive.

Thank god for libraries.

Oh...by the way, they've loads of books here, so, in the interim, I might have to read, or something.


edited to say: bummer thing about libraries is they close.