Yesterday the hard drive on my laptop died. I have been assured that this isn’t my fault by no less than three very very talented computer people so I don’t feel guilty anymore. Needless to say, I kind of freaked out though. I feared all was lost as far as my data goes and that is scary shit.
This situation led to a major pity party on my part. There was no one to hold my hand as I fearfully sat in the waiting room of the computer repair place and there was no one to pat my head when I almost started crying when the computer place said they can’t do anything for me. I was all mopey and sad and felt really shitty. However, when I stop to think about it…
Ok, I don’t have one partner to sit there and hold my hand. What do I have instead? I have some fucking amazing friends who are a phone call away, and those friends can/choose to do things that are far more useful than merely holding my hand.
M was my first phone call and he told me where to go to deal with having my computer fixed and we discussed how I need to get a backup computer so that this isn’t such a problem in the future. Then he offered to build me one. YAY!!!!
K was my second phone call and he explained the hard drive problem in a way that I can understand (he is capable of talking down to me without making me feel stupid and that takes serious skill) and then he offered to lend me a laptop until mine can be fixed.
R was my third phone call because I just needed to vent and I knew he would be home and willing to at least listen for a few minutes. He told me to bring my laptop over and he would see what he could do with it. I brought it up there and…. HE RECOVERED THE MOST IMPORTANT FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He is now a GOD in my eyes and he can have just about anything he wants. And of course going over to his house involved snuggling and watching some Hawt porn so the night turned out well in general.
I may not have “a special someone” but I have so many people who are willing to support me and help me. I am so grateful for my friends.
So now it is a serious pain in the ass to deal with fixing my computer, but I’m not freaking out. 🙂
It’s always nice to be loved for one’s geekiness, rather than despite it.
And all know that I’m T, not M. =D
Hehehe… it’s a good idea to have geek friends, isn’t it? *g*
It’s a good thing you didn’t just write off your hard drive. A lot of computer shops will try to convince you that the situation is unrecoverable… They suck. And not in the pleasanter ways.
Well, a lot of hard drive crashes are unrecoverable. It’s basically a coin flip. If it’s a hardware problem like a head crash or a disc jumped axle…yeah, it’s basically boned.
That’s true but a lot of shops I’ve seen and heard about don’t care to tell the difference. They’re rather reformat / reinstall or just sell you a new drive whether it’s needed or not.
For consumer systems filesystem corruption is a much more common problem than catastrophic drive failure. Besides the click of death…