Having strange computer problems. At odd times I hear a CLUNK and find that the reset button seems to have depressed itself partway, freezing the system and forcing a hard reboot--which doesn't always work...the first time it happened, it couldn't find its own hard drive. "That's odd," said Eva, "I could have sworn we had one of those."
Every once in a while, the way you'll try light switches even though you know the power's cut, I'd try to turn on the computer. And it would hem and haw and say "insert proper boot device". "I'll give the thing a boot device!"
It's now 4:30 in the morning and I'm wide awake, having had about sixteen nightmares that I refuse to consider have anything to do with my deprivation of a computer for less than 24 hours. No, I suspect what caused my nightmares--most of which, oddly enough, involved work--was the certain knowledge I'd be deprived of the computer for an indefinite period. Also deprived of considerable amounts of $$$ to fix the g-ddamned thing.
So I came down here, put the dog out for a piddle, brought him in, and thought, 'what the hell'. I checked to make sure the reset button was not depressed at all and booted 'er up.
Worked perfectly.
Until I ran my antivirus scan. Halfway through that, CLUNK! the reset button did its thing, a red light glared, and I found myself well and truly hung. I tried one more reboot and it started up as if nothing had happened.
Weird.
It's possible this thing could crash on me in the next second. If it does, that'll be why there are no Breadbin posts for some time. Also why I don't answer my mail.
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