Fortunately, not when it's important...
Jul. 13th, 2003 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe title refers to the second time (in recent memory) that my VAIO has spontaneously rebooted while I have been using it. The first time, if memory serves, was in beautiful downtown Burbank Kazakhstan.
This time, the machine took a quick vacation to wherever computers go when they suddenly reboot and then restarted itself with no disk checks or anything... the only telltale left to indicate anything is awry is the Active Desktop Recovery screen that asks me to click on the "Recover my Active Desktop" button. A message partially obscured by icons on my desktop starts, "Microsoft Windows has experienced an unexpected error."
Gee, tell me something I don't know.
Anyway, the short item from last week is gone and invoiced, and the 60K job is gone and invoiced. We're not out of the woods yet, though... and a good thing, too!
* * * After putting the finishing touches on the last of the 60K job, Galina and I went out to eat at a place called "Ramon's" (pronounced "ruh-MOANS"), where Galina ordered a quesadilla, while I celebrated with a marguerita and something called "la banderilla" (advertised as the house 'patriotic' dish... which wasn't what induced me to order it, but I was mildly amused to find out that the colors of the dish ran more along the lines of green, white, and red rather than red, white, and blue, but I digress...).
After dinner, we stopped by the kids' place, where I was informed that my birthday DVD to Huntur of Russian children's animation would not play on their PlayStation (which is what they use for playing DVDs). Once I finish with this post, I might go upstairs to see if it will play on the sub-$100 player I picked up at Wal-Mart a while back. If it doesn't, I'll try to play it on the VAIO, which is suitably equipped. If it still doesn't play, I will be suitably upset, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
Cheers...
This time, the machine took a quick vacation to wherever computers go when they suddenly reboot and then restarted itself with no disk checks or anything... the only telltale left to indicate anything is awry is the Active Desktop Recovery screen that asks me to click on the "Recover my Active Desktop" button. A message partially obscured by icons on my desktop starts, "Microsoft Windows has experienced an unexpected error."
Gee, tell me something I don't know.
Anyway, the short item from last week is gone and invoiced, and the 60K job is gone and invoiced. We're not out of the woods yet, though... and a good thing, too!
After dinner, we stopped by the kids' place, where I was informed that my birthday DVD to Huntur of Russian children's animation would not play on their PlayStation (which is what they use for playing DVDs). Once I finish with this post, I might go upstairs to see if it will play on the sub-$100 player I picked up at Wal-Mart a while back. If it doesn't, I'll try to play it on the VAIO, which is suitably equipped. If it still doesn't play, I will be suitably upset, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
Cheers...
