Unicron is dead; long live UnicronPrime

My computer broke today.

She was running fine this morning when I did my morning routine -- checking mail, opening trillian, looking up the forums.
Then, this afternoon, I noticed that my Firewall was acting funny. I had just upgraded, so I figured I would uninstall what I had and reinstall a clean one. So, I did -- but when it started to install, it said it couldn't find a .dll that I knew was where it should be. It was finally (after a couple reboots) able to get at the .dll, but then when the new Firewall began loading, it simply restarted my computer. And then, running through the boot-up consitency test, it found some considerable errors on my drive. And in short order, windows would load up, and I would log in, but before the Desktop was up, the computer would restart.

I formatted my C:\, which I'd partitioned for my OS alone for just such an occation. I lose some settings, and had to remind Windows where my programs were, but no real information was long. Lots of Windows updating to do. And it's just been a day-long, emotionally draining ordeal.

I don't want to go to class tomorrow, but I will. And then there's the Conta Formal out at Christendom. And then, nothing really pressing until my three finals next Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

I hope it's all fun.

After the Storm

I changed my background, too, when I got UnicronPrime up and running. I figured this was appropriate, first being the calm after my fight with ComputerErrors, and secondly, in a much more sentimental way, as a setting for the end of my college career. It's been a good four years. Lots of memories. Soft, warm, loving memories. Cold, cutting memories. I fell in love, in truth I'd say, for the first time. I've made some of the best friends I've ever had. I started the Journal. I began my Novella. And as much as I have nothing good to say about this school at the moment, and as much as I wouldn't stay here if they asked me to, it's still going to be a little hard to leave behind. This place has been home for me. My life was lived here. You can't walk away from something like that lightly. Well, I can't.

( After the Storm )