BronxWench

@Wilde_Guess I read the "fast and durable hard drive" way too fast, started to think latex and naughty thoughts (this is AFF after all) 

A fast and durable hard drive is never a bad thing.  As for *nix, you will want to be VERY COMFORTABLE with the “normally hidden wires” of an operating system before using it.  I have experience with SCO Unix, Intel Solaris, Linux, and post-Intel Apple OSX.  If you have to try *nix, get an iMac.  All the unix stuff is in there, but stays “hidden” unless you go looking for it.

As long as I end up with a working desktop again, I’m happy!
The new HD will be a treat for me, though. It’s a gaming HD, so on those rare moments when I get to game, it will go more smoothly, or so the Elderspawn tells me. (Elderspawn’s OEM HD croaked last year and was replaced with the same model HD, and Elderspawn is a heavy gamer.)
It’s just always a pain in the ass to reinstall everything, but the old HD is now set up as an Igor, so once I have the programs reinstalled, I can pick its brain for the data files I want.
@Desiderius Price I have yet to play enough with Linux to be ready to make the move from Windows. Some day!

As long as I end up with a working desktop again, I’m happy!
The new HD will be a treat for me, though. It’s a gaming HD, so on those rare moments when I get to game, it will go more smoothly, or so the Elderspawn tells me. (Elderspawn’s OEM HD croaked last year and was replaced with the same model HD, and Elderspawn is a heavy gamer.)
It’s just always a pain in the ass to reinstall everything, but the old HD is now set up as an Igor, so once I have the programs reinstalled, I can pick its brain for the data files I want.
@Desiderius Price I have yet to play enough with Linux to be ready to make the move from Windows. Some day!

May they only jab you once on the bloodwork.  (I had to be jabbed a second time when I did mine earlier this week.)

I’m not sure putting on Windows is a treat for a hard drive.  Now, if you were talking Linux, that’d definitely be a treat! 
 

What a treat for the hard drive!  You spoil it.

@BronxWench  Yeah, need to get a passport…. (my old one’s way past expired)

@Desiderius Price This one was right on the beach in Negril, Jamaica. Going out at night in Jamaica is sort of a walk on the wild side, and we mostly stayed at the resort, but we had to go for a sunset burger just to say we’d done it.

@Desiderius Price This one was right on the beach in Negril, Jamaica. Going out at night in Jamaica is sort of a walk on the wild side, and we mostly stayed at the resort, but we had to go for a sunset burger just to say we’d done it.

@BronxWench  Sounds like a better location than the one I’ve gone to.  I mean, yes, the county is next to water, but the restaurant I’m referring to is at a shopping mall, not particularly scenic.

He should have gone with “Jimmy Buffet’s Buffet.” 10% off your order if you pronounce the name of the restaurant correctly.

I used to have Superbowl barbeques when I had my garden apartment in Manhattan. It was awesome.
@GeorgeGlass That song makes me think of going to Jimmy Buffet’s restaurant in Negril, and quite literally having a cheeseburger in what sure felt like Paradise…

*bursts into chorus of “Cheeseburger in Paradise”*

I’ve done the same thing more than a time or two.  Just not today, and maybe not tomorrow.

We’re at 34 F now, so yeah, about the same.  Just decided to go for it
 

There are days where I ignore a high of 33 degrees and fire up the grill.  Today wasn’t one of them, and tomorrow doesn’t look so hot, either.

United with cheese, it was delicious
 

My blood pressure and the body count in my immediate vicinity...

oh my….

I’ll replace the hard drive. Reinstalling is simply delaying the inevitable. In the meantime, I have the idiot laptop which has very little I can actually use, but….

Sorry about the blood tests, but I really, REALLY do not need my computer to act up today, nor do I need the aggravation of trying to deal with updates on a website when I can barely load the freaking website as it is, and getting a call from the daft one that he needs me to drive down and pick him up at MIDNIGHT tonight, because I don’t mind going to bed at 1am when I need to be up at 5:30am, and when he’s dragging me to a seminar/trade show/dinner thing tomorrow. 
It is either the hard drive deciding to fail or it’s the router. I’m hoping it’s the router, because I can fix that in 5 minutes or less. The hard drive will take a little longer.

I’m just hoping they didn’t find a way to make the admin stuff even worse than it was.  It was much easier and straightforward before the last major update!

And now the “like” button has emotes like Facebook. I really want to murder someone now….

It just kind of feels so typically me, you know. Lady Luck’s just kind of sitting back and going, “Oh, so you want to get healthy, huh? Let’s see what I can do about that…” 
What did I do to her, seriously?!