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Sunday, June 07, 2009

don't think me unkind, words are hard to find*

So a couple of completely random things that have one thing in common: they have been both been found after having been lost.

The first thing I found earlier this week when exploring the pantry. I found a jar of something tomato based that my Mom had canned for me long ago. (I'm pretty sure that I've moved that jar of something from one apartment to the next without ever investigating it.) Opened it to find out what it was. I knew it had to be either salsa or pasta sauce. It was salsa, but it smelled funny, so I decided to taste it to see if it was good. It was and the reason it smelled funny was because it was loaded with Tabasco sauce. So have been using it up in recipes and on scrambled eggs on the weekends.

The other thing is that I came across my old CPU. When I say old, I mean 1998. Yes, it is only 11 years old, but that is almost a dinosaur in computer years. It is a Packard Bell Multimedia 730.

Stats:
- MII-266 MMX Enhanced processor
- 4.3 GB HDD
- 40 MB SyncDRAM
- 56 Kbps capable modem
- 24x Max variable speed CD-ROM Drive (notice it's not writeable)

It still (miraculously) works. I do get the occasional BSOD. Today, I fired it up to get all of the data off of it from college. I was hoping to hook up the external HD to migrate the data, but no dice. The old CPU wanted a driver for the HD. I had to resort to...*pauses for dramatic effect*...floppy disks. Luckily, I had all of the documents that were on the HD on a stack of floppies numbering 42 in total.

When I fired up the old PC, I had only plugged in the necessary items to get the data transfered. Then I noticed that the CD drive was doing something. It was playing a CD. I pushed the eject button but the drive door wouldn't open. I tried to pry the CD drawer open while pressing eject. Nothing. It occurred to me that the CD stuck in this drive might be my long lost Police CD that I had been on-and-off wracking my brain to figure out what had ever happened to it. I said to Nailz, "If this is my Police CD...*leaves out further vulgar statement*". Sadly, though the old PC only has a few ports on it, it took a few minutes to find the correct place to plug in speakers and then another minute or two to figure out how to make sound come out. There were four places to check for volume: the media player, the speakers themselves, the icon tray and on the old PC itself (right below the CD-ROM drive). Finally sound came out and I was greeted with the beginning beats of "Roxanne". I couldn't help but give out a surprised, "You bastard!!". For years I have been trying to figure out what had happened to that CD...

Ah...but now that 'tis found, I feel complete again. It must be hitsuzen, as The Police is perfect for the first real rainy day we've had all spring.

*The Police - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

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