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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
I got my beloved laptop back today. I tried to get the FedEx guy to run towards me with the box in slo-mo in the middle of a field, but he wasn't having it. It was still a beautiful reunion.
I have a new system board. Admire the gloriousness of my new system board.
All in all, I'm pretty impressed with HP's tech support, except that they forgot to give me a new battery, which was supposed to be part of the plan, since the power issue messed up my battery to the point where it is holding a charge for like ten minutes. No biggie, they'll send one out. Obviously, having a happy laptop that never had to go back to meet its maker would have been the best option, but this was all quite smooth, and only took a couple of days.
Of course, the hard drive has been wiped, which is annoying, although it does create the opportunity to partition the drive and have it dual boot.
[boring part] I want to have the option to run WinME so that I can use my laptop to write files to my embroidery machine's card. The ancient super-proprietary Viking software I use for that doesn't run on XP, and I don't feel like paying a couple hundred bucks for an upgrade to a program that does exactly one thing. I use a better, cheaper third-party program for actual editing. If I can get this little scheme to work, I can junk the creaky pentium-266 desktop that I am currently keeping around just to run the reader/writer box.
My knitting disorder continues to run amok. I got a yarn store gift certificate for my birthday and I'm wondering what that's going to turn into. Hmmmmmm.
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