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Mar. 21st, 2013 12:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreySo. Snowmageddon, eh?
In other news, shortly after posting my list of 'things that have vaguely gone wrong lately' last night, my laptop suddenly crashed to the blue screen of death and then rebooted itself. I have a sneaking suspicion this is to do with Steam, which kept giving me messages thanking me for testing a beta I don't remember agreeing to test, and telling me it needed to restart my computer to complete this test. But on the other hand, an hour or so before the computer crashed the screen suddenly went black and then came back on again, with a little message saying the display driver or something had temporarily failed. And the other week my computer downloaded some updates, and then when I turned it on again it wouldn't display my desktop. The screen was just black. It let me Ctrl-Alt-Delete and use the Start menu though. And when I turned it off and then on again it was fine.
But anyway, my point is that just in case my laptop is on it's way to imminent death or screen failure or something, I have spent most of the night formatting my external hard drive and then backing up my important files all over again. For some reason my hard drive needed to USB sticks - and needed to use both of them - to do so. So I have spent the majority of the evening browsing the internet without a mouse. I have never been so happy to have my mouse back.
I sincerely hope my computer doesn't crash and die anytime soon.
Also, next week it is my birthday, Easter, the weekend the clocks go back and April Fool's Day. So that should be a fun week.
In other news, shortly after posting my list of 'things that have vaguely gone wrong lately' last night, my laptop suddenly crashed to the blue screen of death and then rebooted itself. I have a sneaking suspicion this is to do with Steam, which kept giving me messages thanking me for testing a beta I don't remember agreeing to test, and telling me it needed to restart my computer to complete this test. But on the other hand, an hour or so before the computer crashed the screen suddenly went black and then came back on again, with a little message saying the display driver or something had temporarily failed. And the other week my computer downloaded some updates, and then when I turned it on again it wouldn't display my desktop. The screen was just black. It let me Ctrl-Alt-Delete and use the Start menu though. And when I turned it off and then on again it was fine.
But anyway, my point is that just in case my laptop is on it's way to imminent death or screen failure or something, I have spent most of the night formatting my external hard drive and then backing up my important files all over again. For some reason my hard drive needed to USB sticks - and needed to use both of them - to do so. So I have spent the majority of the evening browsing the internet without a mouse. I have never been so happy to have my mouse back.
I sincerely hope my computer doesn't crash and die anytime soon.
Also, next week it is my birthday, Easter, the weekend the clocks go back and April Fool's Day. So that should be a fun week.
