When the Universe Attacks

Sadly, on Thursday morning the hard drive on my computer finally gave out. Ironically, at that every instant I was in the process of opening up a homework document that I was going to print out for class later that day. I could sense the impending doom of catastrophic failure as the atmosphere around me became heavy with dread and anticipation. First, a flicker from the screen indicating there was a glitch within the video card. Then, the mouse froze. The hard drive light lit up and stayed solid for several seconds as the operating system began a memory dump. And finally, it came; the blue screen of death indicating some critical system failure had occurred. The computer then restarted and a message popped up saying that a critical windows file had been corrupted. The file was the “System” file which, come to find out. held a major part of the registry. I was sunk. Son of a bitch!

So, I hopped onto the laptop to send my professor an email to plead for an extention on the due date of my assignment and explained my situation. The professor understood and granted my request.

I spent the rest of the day in a depression trying to figure out how I was going to recover the data off of my old hard drive that would no longer boot properly. Thankfully, I was due to spend some time with my new friends Amber and Bob. I explained my situation and they felt aweful for me. So much so that Amber offered to purchase a new hard drive for me while I was waiting to RMA my now damaged old hard drive. At first I resisted the offer thinking that there would be almost no way I could repay her save using my body as collateral.

As we discussed the hard drive issue further they both decided it would be a good idea to go out for dinner. Locking up the apartment, we hopped into my car and we headed to a wonderful little Italian restaurant. We ordered drinks and an appetizer, and shortly after my good friend Chad texted me to see what I was up to. I explained where I was an invited him to join us. Happily he agreed and a few minutes later he was sitting at our table enjoying a tall glass of Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, quite possibly the best beer in the known universe.

We had a great time chatting and munching on food until it was time to go. We all headed back to my apartment for a bit to relax. Amber and Bob decided to bow out for the evening leaving Chad and I alone. We relax together for a while longer, discussing the day and such topics of interests but soon, he had to leave in order to get enough sleep before work the next morning.