{"id":1324,"date":"2010-03-29T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/main\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2013-02-23T03:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T03:38:05","slug":"this-is-the-opposite-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/2010\/03\/29\/this-is-the-opposite-of-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"This is the opposite of fun…."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, last week[ish], I woke up to find that my computer was…slightly broken. The display was out, but it was still running.<\/p>\n

I figured Zombi must’ve gotten behind the computer again and given the cable a good whack…until I sat here and watched it happen again.
\n
\nEver see a computer’s display output when it hits a bad bit of RAM in the videocard? Pretty much the first screenshot here<\/a>, but…slightly worse.<\/p>\n

So, new videocard needed. Because my good one — the one in the TV tower — wouldn’t work with the parts my mom sent me. That might or might not be the fault of my powersupply, which might or might not be good enough to run everything I want in this thing.<\/p>\n

I’m…kinda in hell, in other words. A very special hell. And I’m stuck here until the first, when the new [cheapest improvement I could find] card shows up. Also, there’s the matter of the power supply that was on sale at the same time….<\/p>\n

I’m really not happy about this. I’d much rather be saving up for a shiny, entirely new system or something — or, y’know, some other spiffy toy, but…I can’t do a damned thing without that tower.<\/p>\n

…I don’t even seem to be able to open a bottle of ranch dressing.<\/p>\n

I’ve officially had enough of today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, last week[ish], I woke up to find that my computer was…slightly broken. The display was out, but it was still running. I figured Zombi must’ve gotten behind the computer again and given the cable a good whack…until I sat … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48,59],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bib","tag-bitching","tag-computer-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3bMfN-lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coffeechick.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}