The Corner of Insanity

( It's dead, Jim )

And it's 44 year old Alaskan governor Sarah Palin.

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This is just such blatant pandering, I just can't think of anything else to say.

I've been in contact with these guys since SUNDAY. Here's what I just got.


Dear Jennifer Sigman,

Thank you for contacting Dell Technical Support.

I apologize for the inconvenience caused to you so far. The Windows XP CD has been dispatched now.

We have shipped CD on the following address.

(my home address)

You should receive the CD within next 3 to 5 business days, depending upon the availability of the part in stock. The case and dispatch number is:

Case #

Dispatch #

You can use the dispatch number for tracking the shipment by calling at ***.

I apologize I would not be able to send you the Drivers and Resource CD for your system as the system is End of Life and is no longer under shipping.
I bought this computer LESS THAN TWO YEARS AGO! Yeesh!

However all the drivers are available at: www.support.dell.com

You can get all the drivers by going under drivers and downloads section and entering the system service tag.

Alternatively, you may also get in touch with the Expired warranty department for the driver links as the warranty on your system is expired.

It is a fee-based phone support by Dell?s Expired Warranty Support team and they can be reached at 1-888-261-1716.


So... 72+ hours and 4 emails to get just the operating system CD, which, with my luck, won't even be here until the middle of next week, considering the holiday. I really don't think my next computer will be a Dell...

This is about to become fact, which has potential repercussions to go WAY beyond the obvious pro-lifer's no abortions thing.

We won't even mention the horrifying image that someone on the medical team could decide to have a crisis of conscious while you're strapped to the table and walk away.

Oops, I did.

Stop this. Go to Planned Parenthood and see how to help them stop this. Call/write/email your Senators and Legislators and tell this to stop this. Write/email/call McCain and Obama and tell them to stop this.

He just froze up in the middle of copying something, and won't even load into Safe Mode half the time. I'm going to have to spend all weekend moving files, formatting, downloading updates, re-moving files, and re-installing everything.

I don't think I've lost anything important, but I won't know for sure until I slave the hard drive to the other computer and copy things over. At worst, I'll lose the R and T directories of music plus whatever music I had downloaded in the last couple of weeks and hadn't gone through yet, spreadsheets tracking my MP3s, some game saves, and my bookmarks. The writing is OK, thank all the gods.

I won't know more until later. I won't be much available until sometime Sunday, mostly likely, considering the sheer amount of Windows XP updates I'll have to download over DSL.

*sighs* *pets poor broken Sephiroth-computer and makes soothing noises to him*

Anyone else get a notice from them that they're having "shipping problems"?

But I'm not sure, because it's raining so hard and gotten so dark I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING FURTHER THAN A BLOCK AWAY OUT MY WINDOW AT WORK.

The constant lightning doesn't make it any better, either. I'm in a major high rise, and the lights have flickered a few times.

The wind can't decide which way to blow, so it's going to blow all ways at once.

I wish I could take pictures and show y'all this.

Or something...

via indigo

Dude wearing T-Shirt with Optimus Prime wielding a gun told to go change it before he could board a plane in London.

Hillary Clinton called "a white bitch" by Alex Castellanos, during "The Situation Room" airing May 20th. About 2/3rds of the way down on the transcript. And no-one really calls him out on it.

Looks like I may get out of meetings today, the consultant is sick.

Unfortunately, I think I am, too. Damn Yankee germs. :-p

Wrote 267 words on the Springkink prompt Final Fantasy VII, Kadaj/Rufus Shinra: sensory deprivation - What's wrong? Are you still afraid of the dark?. That leaves one to go, the Vergil torture prompt that I really ought to get down before I completely squick myself out of writing it.

Then six kinkfest prompts, and if I feel good about those, I'll go back and to claim some more.

Beat Final Fantasy IX yesterday, and oh, how I love that ending. :-) Next up is SMT: Nocturne, since I tend to see prompts and stuff about it everywhere.

ETA: LOL! Trying to write the Music tag, almost posted "You're a Solidor Now".

Rain will spread into the central Savannah River area of Georgia
and central South Carolina Saturday morning. The rain is expected
to mix with and change to snow... or a mixture of rain and snow...
mainly north and west of line extending through Augusta... Columbia
... Camden and Cheraw Saturday afternoon. Southeast of this line...
the rain may mix with some snow. The chance of precipitation will
diminish Saturday evening.

The latest information indicates snow accumulation will be around
1 inch in areas north of Columbia... with amounts of 1 inch or
less elsewhere.

Thank goodness I went grocery shopping yesterday...

If I'm not responding to comments, it's nothing personal, but Hotmail is working on a Fail of Epic Proportions and blocking InsaneJournal's notifications, even though I have the domain in my safe list.

Why are you suddenly blocking the delivery of email from @insanejournal.com even though I have it marked as safe? This is unacceptable and inexcusable, and if it is not resolved soon I will move my email elsewhere.
I sure hope they don't think I'm joking because... I'm not.

Me: *puts cup of chocolate chips in a microwave-safe container, sets timer to 30 seconds, and hits Start*
Microwave: bzzzzzz
Me: Huh?
Microwave: zzzzzzzz
Me: Hey, do you smell -
Microwave: zzZZZFRIIZACKZZZZZZ
Me: ...shit.

The coating's come off one spot, so the metal's exposed. Guess who's getting a new microwave?

GAH!

WTF???

I have no idea how it got there, but I went into the attic and found a fist-sized hole in the roof above my bedroom. Now I need to call the insurance company and a roofer.

Fuckity fuck fuck fuck