technology bites
ok, so you all know the story about my hard disk crash last week. well, here`s the story behind that (at least most of the story anyway). this should have been posted last valentines, but i ran out of internet prepaid. great.
update: turns out, i still have prepaid left, my isp was just screwy last night. technology bites.
how often do you get blamed for something bad that happened that is seriously out of your control? and to add to that, how superflous are the reasons they`re spitting at you? that time when my hard disk crashed, i was only doing some usual stuffs while listening to some mp3s. after exhausting all doable means i could think of, i thought of the best possible way to tell the problem to my mom. this is a serious problem as far as i`m concerned since we really can`t afford to buy a new drive immediately. my cousin came and i got into a sort of, heated argument with her husband about the whole scenario. apparently, he was blaming me for putting all kinds of stuff into the drive that it overworked itself to breakage. that could be true to some extent, but then can`t it be possible that a hard disk is simply just another machine and infact capable of just breaking down after a few years? i asked him that question and he said it isn`t possible "basta basta". what the fuck is wrong with him? anyway, i`ve known him to be the kind of guy who thinks he is always right. as much as i hated his bullshit explanation about how to fix the drive talking about using boot disks and stuff like that, i still let him check my box out of politeness. he argued that i _must_ use a floppy at all costs (i used a livecd to at least show him that other than the drive, my box is still ok). practically pointless to use any kind of bootable disk here to fix the hard drive because the bios can`t even detect anything besides the dvd drive.
now, i figured that since hell, i`m gonna buy a new drive eventually, so i might as well also get gentoo 2005.1 ready. it`ll be a pain to update a gentoo 1.4 base on a dialup. i went to my other cousin`s house to get free dsl. and the download took at least half a day. md5sums checked out ok, but there was always a problem with the burning. the files were corrupted. that resulted me to go visit him a couple of times to reburn. anyway, i only needed some basic stuffs like the install cd and at least wvdial and fluxbox and their corresponding dependencies so i didnt mind the corrupted files. the next day, my cousin called me only to tell that his wireless optical mouse doesn`t work anymore. he asked me what i did last.. but hey! isn`t that tantamount to passing the fault on me? i`m sure i left their pc running when i left their house so i couldn`t possibly be the last person that used that. i went to their house without any money to go back home that day and replaced their mouse with a working one. luckily, they brought me home, otherwise, i`d be walking home at night a barangay`s distance at the very least.
my parents were shocked when we recieved a notice of disconnection from the power company that was due the day after we recieved that bill! what the hell!? my dad told me they forgot to pay our january bills that`s why. we had to make some emergency re-budgeting and my brother was furious because valentines was coming up. also, my headphone wire snapped, rendering the right speaker useless. my cellphone`s cancel call key doesn`t work anymore and then the cover lock broke. i had to glue it using mighty bond.
february 13, my brother`s motorcycle`s tire went flat. and since we were having financial difficulties because of the earlier issue with the electric company, my mom had to get money to buy a new interior tire from my allowance. she couldn`t possibly get money from my brother, again, because valentines was coming up. he has plans, i don`t. as simple as that. so now i have to suffer for being girlfriendless? isn`t being girlfriendless torture enough already?
today (february 14), globe telecom`s unlimited text service bailed out on me a couple of times since this afternoon. i was texting two girls xandra l and chris l when i suddenly ran out of load! apparently, my request reached their system at last and subtracted 15 pesos from my prepaid. (i registered for one day unlimited only) i rushed to the store to reload, naturally! since i can`t possibly leave such pretty girls hanging at the other end. (like what some girls always do to me) we were talking about valentines and it was a very interesting topic imho. it all ended with me bidding chris l goodnight and happy valentines. xandra l stopped replying, it`s either she got pissed off at my super late reply or she fell asleep waiting. either way, it`s my loss thanks to globe.
at the kind of luck i`m having with technology recently, it`s no wonder i flunked my cs class too. i don`t wanna add my love life rants into this scenario anymore. that`s an even tougher burden to handle. i`ll cry if i`ll talk about that.
i`m basically a dateless, penniless, loveless failure with every propensity to screw up at anything this love month of february.
lord have mercy.
