Sledgehammer

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Grieving for my dead laptop... RIP April 23, 2009, 800pm. Died after I spent 10 hours writing my final psych exam due yesterday and 14 hours on my exhibition project. It's true what they say about death- it comes when you least expect it.

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my laptop just got resurrected!!! 

I went over to the UF IT help desk to see if they could retrieve my files (or those from the last 24 hours). But my hard disk cannot be read and later on neither can it be recognized by the computer!

I broke the news to my group mates in the exhibition course im taking ( we are working on a group proposal so my laptop problem affects them too). I told them that I will redo all the work that I lost all weekend since we were given an extension to submit until Monday. They recommended that I still swing buy best buy to purchase an AC adapter - I suspected that was the problem but it was too late last night to go to best buy and get a replacement. And since my hard disk can no longer be read, figured pointless to go to best buy. 

So I gave it one last try. And voila! Apparently, there are universal laptop adapters- thank God for the brilliant person who thought of it. And now it's working- with all my files intact!!!

Woohooo! I don't have to rewrite my psych exam!!!

I should probably get a new laptop. Its been dropping hints about all year about wanting to retire. But I cannot afford to buy a new one yet, so I just ignored them.

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Approriate quote for the day:  

"The universe is always nudging us with gentle signals.

When we miss the signals, it nudges us with a sledgehammer."

From Andrew Matthew's Happiness in a Nutshell

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