The Loss Of An Old Friend

A few months ago, a terrible tragedy happened to me. I had to go to a training day; I left at 8 AM, after having shutdown my computer, waved goodbye to my mum and dad, and petted the family dog. When I returned in the evening, the computer wouldn't start up again. I was devastated. All my work was on there.

I'd had that thing for about four years, and the last two it caused nothing but grief to be honest. I've replaced parts a good few times, uninstalled and reinstalled software, and just barely managed to keep the thing running. This time though, it had packed it in for good. Still, I soldiered on and just bought a new one the next day. I was even able to save my old hard drive, so few things really got lost this time at least.  And yes, I was staying with my mum and dad at the time.  So what?

Now I've been reinstalling my old software on my new PC, and finding I'd forgotten what a pain some of them could be. Poser worked for a short time, then inexplicably stopped working, now works again. My biggest gripe, however, was with Games For Windows LIVE. It's a Microsoft product so, naturally, I can't expect to install it on a ****ing Microsoft operating system and expect it to just ****ing work afterwards. No. I have to go messing about with the command prompt and registering DLL's and all this s***. Oh, it makes me so mad...

Anyway, I rose above it and am now back up and running again. And all that stuff I said I would do before... I'm doing it now. Thank you for your patience. You've more than I've got, quite frankly.