I’m Hearing: The Ataris - The Boys of Summer

*lifts up shirt* Oh wait, not that kind of flashing. ^_^;; No, not even close. Today I did something that I was scared shitless about doing, something that made as nervous as lighting a cardboard match (I’m terrified of fire, you see…).

I flashed my BIOS.

Yes, that’s right. I spent a lot of the afternoon reading horror stories on miscellaneous forums about how much trouble people were having with the Abit KT7A-RAID motherboard and freezing…and a couple of them claimed that flashing the BIOS fixed that problem. Well…we’ll see.

But I must describe this experience which left me shaking like a leaf. I came home this afternoon after work and rather than eating, I started right in on the mobo. Well, the first BIOS I tried was the wrong one. The second one was correct, but only made it partway through, as did the third. On the fourth try, the flash completed (whew!) and I sat there in amazement as my computer successfully booted into Windows. Because I was angsty and nervous in addition to not having eaten supper yet, I was shaking like a leaf.

But it worked.

I was getting really upset with myself. I didn’t think I could do it without Jon’s help; in fact, the first three times it failed I was whining to him on IRC about how stupid I was and how I didn’t deserve to own a computer…I’m sure he was pretty annoyed with me. I would have been, had it been someone else. Anyhow…in the end…it worked. And I still felt like a moron, but I had done something that I was terrified to do. I’m rather proud of myself for that.

So after that fiasco, Brian and I went rollerblading again, after which we got some frozen custard at Culver’s. Mmmm.

This wasn’t the high point of the day, though…

Jules finally appeared online after being away for so long. :-) Was sooooo nice to see him again…god I had missed him so terribly! Talking to him makes me feel so happy and alive…he has this effect on people. He and Rosey are on holidays now, so hopefully I’ll be able to see more of both of them. Now if I could only get his birthday present done in time…. ^^;;;;; We’ll see…

No crazy freezing or halting today…no routers stealing ip addresses. Oh well…the day isn’t over yet… :-P

Dreamweaver kept crashing on me at work today, which got really annoying by the 10th or 11th time it happened. Grr. And it was all because the document I was working on was 40 pages in Microsoft Word and DW was choking whenever I hit the "down" arrow to move through the document rather than scrolling and clicking in the appropriate location. *sigh*

Wow, my room is filthy at the moment, like really filthy. There are clothes, computer parts, and pieces of art projects everywhere. Not to mention all the network cables running all over my floor. Ack. At this point someone would really think it’s a male’s room. I guess I should clean some of this stuff up now so I can actually get to my couch so I can sleep tonight.