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The Box is here. My computer is still giving me the silent-and-working treatment... so now I really don't want to give it up. Though it did grumble at me a bit when I shut it down last night, so I know it hasn't magically fixed itself. I'm way too sentimentally attached to this poor computer. If it comes back and they've done something horrible to it, I'm going to be so sad.
Plus, from this point on, I will be computerless for an indefinite period of time. I was doing so well earlier this week when I was weaning myself away from this, but... ahhh, my computer should not have decided to work last night. I have papers to write! I... I... omgwtf am I going to do??
This will also help me figure out if they injured it on its voyage. So... really, this is mostly for my own reference. But you can pretend you're interested if you want. I mean, the dust/lint... thing (which may have been conscious at some point) I pulled out of the fan on Thursday is bad enough.
See? I wish that'd been the actual problem, because the fan is silent now. Silent! (To the point that it creeps me out, because I know things are wrong, and therefore it should be talking to me.) But no... it's never that easy. You can also tell that I was running on basically no sleep, because the picture is rather... unsteady. But it's dust, so whatever. Actually, considering all the problems I'm going to list on this sheet here, my computer might as well be able to complain about a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left side (it's facing me; so my right, is its left). CD drive, sound card, and hard drive. Ouch. And now all three are only intermittantly broken. At least the screen hinge is consistent about being wonky. Goshdarnit.
And, here we have my reference pictures. The keyboard, with many of its letters worn off. I wonder if they should replace that. I haven't had any problems with it... and I'm kind of proud of the fact that only people who don't have to look at keys can use my computer easily. And all the stickers. My favourites being the SCORCHING one, and "Inspected 100% no MSG". (Which is, to be fair, a sticker and a bit of a Chinese menu I cut out.) I never claimed not to be weird. Oh, and the horseradish that's shaped like a horse. I've had that since I found it in a gardening catalog senior year or so. It's the one I'm most worried about losing, because it's not really taped on well, and because of the adhesive stuff that used to hold it to my agenda, I can't really put tape over it. Plus I've never seen a picture like it anywhere else.
I think you can probably see why I'm rather attached to my computer now. In addition to the fact that, even while in an impaired state, it's still faster than a lot of computers I've had to work with. Mmm, desktop replacement that's got a well-taken-care-of installation of Windows. Mmm.
Now I need to compose something appropriate to write under "Please describe the failure symptom". Something that doesn't sound like an obituary, and something that doesn't have a lot of the unnecessary adjectives and adverbs I like to throw in, since tech people aren't really partial to having those thrown in the middle of things. I guess I'll have to be succinct. (But if they think they're not getting a plea to be nice to my stickers, they're quite mistaken.)
Oh, and Toshiba? In the year between when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
solitaryjane and I got our computers, thank you so much for figuring out that making it easier to access the fan was a good idea. Holy crap, torque screws and then having everything glued down anyway? With a tiny, tiny fan? Not the best idea ever.
So, my friend unceremoniously-photographed box (the fact that they call you "specially designed" makes me giggle), please take good care of my good friend computer. Computer, I will miss you. Come back safely.
Oh, and my dear trusty iPod Pantalaimon? I know your hard drive isn't happy with me either. Fine, I can replace most of the songs you've lost recently, since 60% of what's on you is from my own CDs. But please... throwing random things onto my playlists is a new version of not cool I'm pretty sure I'm not happy with. I even put up with the fact that you've been too confused lately to deal properly with my rotating not-played-in-a-month playlist. I've left it alone. Don't make me go crying to the apple store downtown with you, because I'm not even sure we have your receipt anymore. And if you break too, I think I'll be more lost than I can even imagine right now.
Plus, from this point on, I will be computerless for an indefinite period of time. I was doing so well earlier this week when I was weaning myself away from this, but... ahhh, my computer should not have decided to work last night. I have papers to write! I... I... omgwtf am I going to do??
This will also help me figure out if they injured it on its voyage. So... really, this is mostly for my own reference. But you can pretend you're interested if you want. I mean, the dust/lint... thing (which may have been conscious at some point) I pulled out of the fan on Thursday is bad enough.
See? I wish that'd been the actual problem, because the fan is silent now. Silent! (To the point that it creeps me out, because I know things are wrong, and therefore it should be talking to me.) But no... it's never that easy. You can also tell that I was running on basically no sleep, because the picture is rather... unsteady. But it's dust, so whatever. Actually, considering all the problems I'm going to list on this sheet here, my computer might as well be able to complain about a terrible pain in all the diodes down its left side (it's facing me; so my right, is its left). CD drive, sound card, and hard drive. Ouch. And now all three are only intermittantly broken. At least the screen hinge is consistent about being wonky. Goshdarnit.
And, here we have my reference pictures. The keyboard, with many of its letters worn off. I wonder if they should replace that. I haven't had any problems with it... and I'm kind of proud of the fact that only people who don't have to look at keys can use my computer easily. And all the stickers. My favourites being the SCORCHING one, and "Inspected 100% no MSG". (Which is, to be fair, a sticker and a bit of a Chinese menu I cut out.) I never claimed not to be weird. Oh, and the horseradish that's shaped like a horse. I've had that since I found it in a gardening catalog senior year or so. It's the one I'm most worried about losing, because it's not really taped on well, and because of the adhesive stuff that used to hold it to my agenda, I can't really put tape over it. Plus I've never seen a picture like it anywhere else.
I think you can probably see why I'm rather attached to my computer now. In addition to the fact that, even while in an impaired state, it's still faster than a lot of computers I've had to work with. Mmm, desktop replacement that's got a well-taken-care-of installation of Windows. Mmm.
Now I need to compose something appropriate to write under "Please describe the failure symptom". Something that doesn't sound like an obituary, and something that doesn't have a lot of the unnecessary adjectives and adverbs I like to throw in, since tech people aren't really partial to having those thrown in the middle of things. I guess I'll have to be succinct. (But if they think they're not getting a plea to be nice to my stickers, they're quite mistaken.)
Oh, and Toshiba? In the year between when
solitaryjane and I got our computers, thank you so much for figuring out that making it easier to access the fan was a good idea. Holy crap, torque screws and then having everything glued down anyway? With a tiny, tiny fan? Not the best idea ever.So, my friend unceremoniously-photographed box (the fact that they call you "specially designed" makes me giggle), please take good care of my good friend computer. Computer, I will miss you. Come back safely.
Oh, and my dear trusty iPod Pantalaimon? I know your hard drive isn't happy with me either. Fine, I can replace most of the songs you've lost recently, since 60% of what's on you is from my own CDs. But please... throwing random things onto my playlists is a new version of not cool I'm pretty sure I'm not happy with. I even put up with the fact that you've been too confused lately to deal properly with my rotating not-played-in-a-month playlist. I've left it alone. Don't make me go crying to the apple store downtown with you, because I'm not even sure we have your receipt anymore. And if you break too, I think I'll be more lost than I can even imagine right now.
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Tell your computer I said get well soon.
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I'll tell it before I send it off tomorrow. Hehe, it's probably bad enough that I feel like it'd be cool to have people sign the box it's in like it's a cast. ^_^ The tech people are already going to think I'm insane for pointing out the stickers under "cosmetic condition"... I probably shouldn't make it worse. (-:
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Mine is the same way. XD And seeing your stickers makes me giiiiggle. I want to take pictures of my baby now. I love him so. And my laptop once I get him back. ; ; He's off being fixed too. ; ;
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Go for it! Computer pictures are fun!
It must be laptop-fixing season. I hope yours comes back safely, too. (-:
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ohh i hope they can fix it!
you poor, poor thing.
::hugs!::
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I'm so suffering from separation anxiety already, since I put it in the box earlier tonight. It shut down without complaining one bit! And its hard drive didn't grind once. It made me so sad to seal it away. It doesn't want to go! And... and...
I'll stop being emo now, really.
...
;_;
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ohh i hope they can fix it!
you poor, poor thing.
::hugs!::
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I hope everything goes well, and that your computer will come back happy and sticker-clad.
And ew, dust. And ew, Pantalaimon, behave.
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Pantalaimon had better hang on until I get my laptop back. I'd blame this on some sort of "the computer's getting more attention than me!" kind of hissy-fit, except it's been up to this nonsense longer than the computer has. Argh. And as far as I know, my mom hasn't managed to locate the receipt yet. There's something about this quarter that just doesn't like hard drives, and if it spreads to my new external one, I don't know what I'm going to do.
I think there might be something inherently weird about having my iPod down here... since it sort of implies the actual possession of a computer, while having to use the lab implies that you don't have one. Ah, the inherent dichotomy of me in the computer lab.
I can still unlock everything in here and make a massive evil machine homunculus. Or a massive good machine homunculus. It will do my bidding!... I promise I haven't gone nuts! Really!