1 post tagged “laptop”

I really do. Is it the computer's fault that it got hit with some worm Sunday and shut down, leaving me panicked and HIGHLY unhappy for 5 too many days? No, but I still hate it. It just isn't enough that I work off of a crap, lightless monitor - nooo, hows about we add freshly data-free and back to square one? I've only had this thing since December - is that relatively soon for all of this crap that keeps happpening? I don't know because I can't compare it to past experience, since this is my first computer. There's my Qotd - what's your general timeframe for a computer going belly up?

OK, OK, so it didn't exactly "go belly up" - at least I was able to reinstall Windows and get this thing working again. And, my mood was instantly lightened - nay, transformed into utter ecstaticness (is that a word?) - by the discovery that a story I wrote for a 24  fanfiction challenge...OMG....WON.

*jumps up & down*

Oh my God I won something! And for something I wrote!! *squeals*

What did I win, exactly? Well, not much, besides the praise of fellow Jack/Chloe fanfiction writers, but each winner got a banner made to look like their story. This is mine:

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It has my name on it and everything! Whee!

(For those of you who haven't figured as much, fanfiction is the act of ripping off whatever you're a fan of and doing it your own way. For me, it's taking the show 24 and writing stories pairing Jack Bauer with Chloe or with...um...well, another character. If you really want to know, I'll tell you, but you probably don't. Especially if you don't watch the show, in which case you care nothing of what I'm currently babbling about.)

Anyway, one look at that banner and the accompanying title of "Best Plot", and suddenly, I heart my computer.

I'm way behind on the news and my neighboorhood, but I shall remedy that soon. "Soon" being tomorrow, since it's about 8 AM and I need to go to sleep.

Happy day to all. :)