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the_dala at 09:57pm on 23/09/2008
the_dala at 09:57pm on 23/09/2008Baseball Announcer On TV: He got some real wood on the ball there.
Dala: OMGWTFLOL!
Dad: What?
Dala: ...Did you hear what that guy said?
Dad: It's a baseball term!
Dala: It's funny.
Dad: No it's not, it's BASEBALL! It's not dirty OR funny! *hmmph*
...I don't care who you are, that's funny right there. And people call football homoerotic. Which it is, but too.
I also think it's hilarious that one of my friends works on Morningwood Drive, in case you wanted to know.
My god, I am so done with this laptop, I'm not even going to refer to it by name. I bought a new battery charger (because the stuff covering the wires where it plugged into the laptop was wearing away and it became impossible to keep it plugged in) last summer. Then a few weeks later, I started getting the message that 'your battery is charging normally; however, it is reaching the end of its usable life. This thing was purchase in February 2006; when I bought a new battery for it, it was about one and a half years old. Now it's two and a half, and the fucking battery is dying again!
Am I totally offbase here? Is this normal for laptops in general, or just because it's a shitty Dell? I don't really want to buy another battery because I don't intend to have it much longer. The plan is to scrape pennies together, ask for a contribution as my Christmas present and splurge on a Sony Vaio in December. December's just starting to seem like a long way away. It only holds a charge about forty-five minutes now, and it gets so hot on the bottom that I'm leery of leaving it sitting on my scrapghan for too long. Plus its inner machinery has started making some scary whirring noises.
Ugh. I'd just like to know if it's crappy parts or something I personally did to offend the technology gods, so that I can avoid this problem in the future. I'm not a saint; I download quite frequently and I've had one serious virus attack that cause me to wipe the hard drive. But I don't run anything that takes up lots of memory, I don't regularly hurl it to the ground or anything. This short a shelf life just seems ridiculous. This is my first laptop, though, so what do I know.
I might really chuck it out the window once it finally kicks the bucket. I hate waste, but for so long I've restrained myself from violent action against all manner of rebellious technology, and it would feel so good to carry out just one of those threats...
And you know you love my yinyang egg.
Dala: OMGWTFLOL!
Dad: What?
Dala: ...Did you hear what that guy said?
Dad: It's a baseball term!
Dala: It's funny.
Dad: No it's not, it's BASEBALL! It's not dirty OR funny! *hmmph*
...I don't care who you are, that's funny right there. And people call football homoerotic. Which it is, but too.
I also think it's hilarious that one of my friends works on Morningwood Drive, in case you wanted to know.
My god, I am so done with this laptop, I'm not even going to refer to it by name. I bought a new battery charger (because the stuff covering the wires where it plugged into the laptop was wearing away and it became impossible to keep it plugged in) last summer. Then a few weeks later, I started getting the message that 'your battery is charging normally; however, it is reaching the end of its usable life. This thing was purchase in February 2006; when I bought a new battery for it, it was about one and a half years old. Now it's two and a half, and the fucking battery is dying again!
Am I totally offbase here? Is this normal for laptops in general, or just because it's a shitty Dell? I don't really want to buy another battery because I don't intend to have it much longer. The plan is to scrape pennies together, ask for a contribution as my Christmas present and splurge on a Sony Vaio in December. December's just starting to seem like a long way away. It only holds a charge about forty-five minutes now, and it gets so hot on the bottom that I'm leery of leaving it sitting on my scrapghan for too long. Plus its inner machinery has started making some scary whirring noises.
Ugh. I'd just like to know if it's crappy parts or something I personally did to offend the technology gods, so that I can avoid this problem in the future. I'm not a saint; I download quite frequently and I've had one serious virus attack that cause me to wipe the hard drive. But I don't run anything that takes up lots of memory, I don't regularly hurl it to the ground or anything. This short a shelf life just seems ridiculous. This is my first laptop, though, so what do I know.
I might really chuck it out the window once it finally kicks the bucket. I hate waste, but for so long I've restrained myself from violent action against all manner of rebellious technology, and it would feel so good to carry out just one of those threats...
And you know you love my yinyang egg.
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