Computer Bust | 12/03/06
ALL HAIL. ALL HAIL ME. I am the 2006 College Pick 'Em Chamption. HAIL. pchris
edged me with some excellent last-game picks in 2005 but I was not going to be denied yet again.
I hate my computer. Ricky was able to get it to stop overheating a month ago but this weekend it really took a turn for the worst.
First, my beloved Brother laser printer finally gave up after about 15k pages. It had a good life but its demise couldn't really
have come at a worse time. I replaced it yesterday with a HP Color laser and so far it's done an admirable job. The new one
was the only one at CompUSA (no time to comparison shop) that had the duplexing feature, a requirement for printing musical scores.
My sound card was also shot so I had to replace that as well. Unfortunately after dropping about $200 on it and getting
truly excellent sound, I discovered it was incompatible with my ethernet card. Sound vs. Internet. A few old-versions-of-drivers
installations later everything works again. I also ended buying over $100 of paper for this new machine. I forgot what it's like
to be poor. It sucks.
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