This has been an interesting weekend. To start off with, my beloved laptop, Gary, aged 5 and a half, tragically died of a fried hard drive on Friday evening. He had just finished allowing me to play an exciting game of Age of Empires III when he suddenly came down with the Blue Screen of Death. Never have I seen BSOD like this as white lines shot through the blue and random text and numbers flashed rapidly. I tried to save him, but unfortunately, through repeated tries at booting, he would not respond. If he fails to boot from an external hard drive, Gary will be laid to rest in the local Staples recycling bin sometime in the near future.
In all seriousness though, I'm going to try and save my laptop, as it has sentimental value, but I think Gary is way past his prime. It's almost not worth saving, though, I really lament the loss. It was me first personal computer (having used a family computer the years before) and it got me through most of my university career. I wrote 175 pages of WMRR on it, stayed on all through the night as I wrote my papers at the last minute, traveled with me to places including London, Lake Winnipeg, Hawaii and Florida, uploaded all of my videos diligently while I slept, helped me play hundreds of hours of games, and helped me to produce my very first videos. Gary will be missed. <3
In other news, I have been working on making Murphy a high-use computer. Before I mostly used him to play games and encode video, but now he will be taking on many other roles. In the meantime, I will be borrowing a laptop to use for my writing and school work. I am just glad I didn't start Broken World on Gary, which I was debating doing on Murphy anyways. That sounds...awkwardly sexual.
Speaking of Broken World, I have installed it on Murphy and am now ready to start the LP. I will be doing some sound tests in the next couple of days here, and will probably start the LP on the 11th (which is the last day of my exams). The game was...strange to install though. I installed DS2 with no trouble, but when I went to install Broken World, the installer froze, which then proceeded to freeze windows explorer. Pissed off (and quite tired as I have been working all weekend) I waited about five minutes before forcing a restart. I tried again when it had booted up again and the same thing happened. Fed up I figured I would just work on it tomorrow after I got home and just ignored the failing programs to talk on msn before I went to bed.
Suddenly, after about 10 minutes, Broken World just decided to...work, and it installed in about 30 seconds after I put in the CD key (which I had to dig around for as it was on the booklet...and the booklet was not in the case). Then about 8 windows popped up from when I was trying to get ANYTHING to work in windows explorer. Whatever. Broken World is installed and it works.
Guess this is what happens when you call your computer Murphy.
Finally, as Gary died and I don't have a recent enough back-up, I will be playing a new set of characters for Broken World. I kind of wanted to do it that way anyways. We shall make this silly.
