The power here has been glitchy for the last few days due to weather, and so I expect some crap from the machines. However…

vista

this is what I’ve been seeing all day. It doesn’t go anywhere or do anything else, it just sits there. Last night it did it and I was able to “click any key to exit” and it worked, today nope, nada, fuck you miss mom, not gonna happen, piss off.

Luckily I have a Mac. Unfortunately there is a ton of stuff on the drive on that machine that I really need. I guess I’ll go troll some forums and do some searches for “vista is a living pain in my ass and I am really thinking about ditching it in favor of something free or less buggy….or both” and see what I can find

**edit: with an external drive running ubuntu, I’m currently backing up my machine. It looks that the forced mount has kicked the flag that was keeping me stuck in the endless ckdsk has been reset. I’ll try rebooting after I get everything backed up, and if it doesn’t work, then it’s a lot of cussing and a rebuild back to xp for me.

**edit part deux: tomorrow I will be cussing. It’s back up, but it’s running the check every time it boots now, that can’t be good, and according to the linux install we ran, the disk is fine, it’s Vista that has the error somewhere ;/