How much grief is appropriate when a computer dies?
My mac crashed last night. In fact, this is the third time in as many weeks that my computer has crashed; the difference this time being that none of the tricks I use to make it boot up after a crash are working. I'm pretty sure it's gone.
I hate the vast number of quandries this brings up. Do I replace it, even though I have no money? If I don't replace it, will the hubby and I kill each other trying to share his? Do I bother replacing all of my bookmarks and everything on the hubby's computer? What about my podcast downloads that I usually do on my itunes? Do we hook up a computer to the interweb that isn't currently connected to the interweb just so I can use it as my main itunes?
Ugh.
Most of the crucial stuff was backed up, either on my email or a memory stick, but there's all kinds of little things that make me sad. A bunch of pictures of my niece and vacations with the hubby, and some smaller writing projects that I had started. It's just such a pain in the ass!
Sigh.
We have four working computers in our apartment. It's ridiculous to bring home another one. And yet, it's one of those things that I don't really like to share. Short term, no problem. I just like to have my own choices of background and links and all those files that I've lost.... (*pathetic sob*)
I know that life will go on, but I'm just not there yet. Give me a few days. Or weeks. Or however long it takes me to kill my husband for absolute control of his computer....
I had a little panic attack reading this. I have also experienced the computer crashing but thankfully, was able to have everything recovered to an external hard drive. We have three people living in our house and four computers and we all have iPods or iPhones to connect to the internet too. It's tragic how addicted we all are to our computers.
ReplyDeleteGo get yourself a new one. Didn't he just buy a watch? LOL!
An iPad is not that expensive. That's what TM and I got when his laptop died. Now if he does need a specific program he can use mine, but otherwise the surfing/photos/music are all taken care of on his iPad.
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