16 April 2002 - 22:14

I'm messing with my diaryland template.

I was messing with my diaryland template when I heard my little laptop make a popping sound, and then the harddrive stopped humming, and the computer stopped responding. Then I smelled ozone, so I pulled the plug, hit the hard off switch, and popped the battery, but not before there was smoke flowing out the right hand vent.

Nothing visibly wrong inside, but that's no surprise. Not going to mess with it... if there's a short, I could do more damage than has already been done.

Crap. Forget all that positive stuff I've been saying about computers. They suck. Especially when one can't use them. And when they suck up money.

So I'm irritable about that. Otherwise things are kinda dull. There seems to be a lot of that going around. Got my GYN exam for the year out of the way. Got the red chenille I was weaving off the loom. Played some Ecco: Defender of the Future. Did a lot of reading for class. Went to music theory aural skills. Now doing some music and analysis that's at least tangentially related to Music Theory proper. Which has started to lose me a little bit. We're analysing Schubert's Der Erlkong, which is a creepy piece to begin with. Whatever.