Blueberry pie.

Ah nevermind.

Well, it seems like my internet connection is down for the night. They did say there would be sporadic difficulties... I didn't think it would be completely down all night. Dammit. Guess I'll have to post this tomorrow.

But that won't get me down. Cause guess what happened?

Yes, the hard drive is installed. It's working. It's great.

Oh finally. Oh yeah. It's over. I won. In the end.

I spent the early part of the day waiting for the guy to come. Being nervous. Anxiety. Yeah, I don't do people well. Got to the point where I started hoping he wouldn't show up. That's how bad it gets. Even though I wanted him to come and help me I still have a hard time with it. But he came. As promised. I figure he's 18-19 or so. Simon. He handled my computer like a dream. All over the place, he even put it down on it's side. I'd never dare do that. I'd break something. Well, it turns out that the cable I couldn't remove was very easy to remove and he did it in 5 seconds. Then he messed about with the whole thing. Made the CD drive slave to the old hard drive so the new hard drive could be master on the second IDE interface. Yes, I know what I'm talking about. Coolio. And it worked. Oh my gosh it actually worked. It probably took 20 minutes. Then everything was set up and working. And my computer didn't explode. And the C: drive wasn't accidentally formatted. And the hard drive was compatible with my motherboard. It just all worked. Very strange... Who would've thought. So after months of working up the courage to buy a hard drive and two weeks of finding a way to get it installed... it's now done. And I'm happy. Actually happy. I've been smiling a lot today. I don't smile that much. I'm not usually very happy. I might sound all fun and stuff but I'm more depressed than happy. Except today. I'm happy today.

I send my thanks again to Simon. What he did was virtually nothing. For him it was nothing. It was 30 minutes of his day, an operation he could do in his sleep. For me it was several months of worrying ended. For me it was happiness. Isn't it great? It's almost inspiring... I'm seeing trailers for a movie with the deadpeople kid and kevin spacey. I'm not sure what it's called in English. But I think the general idea is to do good stuff for others. Now I'm not saying you should save the world, but why not go out and do something for someone? Something small and easy. Don't build them a garage. Just do something. Care for your fellow man. Oh brother I'm too happy. I don't make any sense. Ah well. Go on. Do something nice. Like Simon who offered his assistance for nothing. Just to be nice. Because he had something I needed. Nothing much. But something I needed. Aw golly, I'm all warm and fuzzy.

After he'd left I jumped around the house with a huge grin for a while. Then I started copying all my music. 7 gigabytes of mostly smashing pumpkins. From C to D. Oh boy did that feel good. My C drive was like a box full of stuff, almost spilling over, full to the brim. And then I unloaded most of it over in a bigger box and I could almost hear a sigh of relief from the C box. Phew.

Moving all that music around screws up napster so I fixed that up a bit. I'll also have to redo all my playlists. That'll be a bit of a chore. But it's all good. After messing with napster I installed Ultima 9. Aaaah. Finally. And I even managed to fix the screwy graphics. That means I can run the latest patch without problems. Wheeee! And then the dialogue patch that makes it what it should've been, a proper Ultima story. Oh none of that makes sense to any of you. But it was cool for me! I went back to Britannia and played around for a while. Beautiful.

So. The short version: Hard drive quest completed. Lasse happy.

Peter came home today. And mother baked cake. Peter is now 21. Happy birthday Peter! My dear brother, bane of my existance. Today is his birthday. January 20th. Mine's March 15th (start saving for presents). I can never remember if that's two days before or after Billy Corgan's birthday. I think it's before. Oh well. I am practically Billy Corgan. Everybody says so.

Grrrr... I wish that damn internet connection would work. Sigh. But I'm still smiling. Hehehehehehehehehehehe. The hard drive actually works. No exchanging. It works. It's so incredible. Finally. Heheheheheheheheheh.

Aaaaah.

I guess I can't post this tonight. I might as well be going to bed.

Just wanted to mention that Ravenglitter is cool. She put me on her list of good diaries and she made an entry of dreams about Billy corgan. It doesn't get much better than that. Plus I have a new hard drive installed and it works. So I'm happy :)

Two bad things: No internet connection + almost no snow.

But I'm happy. Because my hard drive is working.

Did I mention my hard drive is installed and works? You may think I'm talking to much about this but you have to realized that after tonight I probably won't have any reason to write about hard drives anymore so I kinda have to squeeze everything I can out of it. Blueberry pie just won't last as long.

Still no internet connection. I'm going to bed. With a smile because my new 30 gigabyte hard drive works.

G'night or more like good morning or good day. Smile dammit, the world is great right now!

Lasse's Deep Thought For The Day: The world would be a better place if we were all Simon

np: pumpkins - James' complex song (gravity demos)

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