Last night I was happily pissing around online, reordering my Netflix queue as I debated with myself if I wanted to put Old School Sesame Street on a higher spot than Ladybugs. My computer wouldn't recognize my USB connection for my digital camera, so I chalked it up to not having been rebooted in a week and went back to photographing Play Doh. Nature called, as it does, and when I had come back, my computer was dead. Not just error dead, the dead dead. The kind where you don't even try to turn on and make beeping noises. I opened it up and looked inside. It was no wonder I blew something, my whole room is a giant dust magnet. If you've ever watched the scene from My Neighbor Totoro where all the dust bunnies fly past May, opening my case up was something like that.

I figured since it wasn't powering on, I probably blew my power supply. I unplugged it, and went to sleep for about 3 hours before I lugged it back to the mall where I bought most of the components from. Unfortunately, as I turned the corner, giant metal box in hand, the store was empty. I was told the computer repair place had moved to a new location halfway back where I came from. Shit. I loaded my computer back up, drove down, and lucky lucky me, it was grand fucking opening day and packed with people. I asked them to look at my PC, but as they threw papers at me and told me it couldn't do so much as looked at for quite a while, I politely asked to have it back to take it to Best Buy. To not appear uncooperative, they tested the power supply, which eventually did power on. Meaning that something more serious was fucked, like my entire motherboard.

Knowing my luck, I decided by the time I paid for repair fees and new parts, I might as well just buy a new system. I had to trudge to Saturday Best Buy and stand in the middle of the computer department for 15 minutes until someone was free to help me out. Eventually some muffy haired emo kid came over and I told him to help me pick something that'll be good for web design and is under $600. I got a nice Gateway with a big hard drive and even a little slot to put my SD card in so I don't even need to hook up my camera with a USB cable anymore! Picked up a USB wireless adapter and BING, done! So much for using my tax refund to pay off bills!

Now I'm trying to shuffle all my files back on here (My Pictures had over 4,700 photos) and beating my head against a wall wondering why Vista doesn't want to import my e-mail files. Vista is going to take a lot of getting used to.