MacBro's Place

OK, so here I was, getting ready for work. Everything seems fine right up to the point when I finished brushing my teeth. I started coughing a bit, and a bit of coughing turned into gaging and coughing.

I was coughing so hard I started to get a headache. At one point I coughed so hard I threw up. I started to notice something in my mouth that felt like pieces of food or something. When I put a piece of what-ever-the-fuck-it-is on the tip of my finger I looked and it was pieces of flesh. YEA, you got it right. That’s when I noticed blood in the shit I was coughing up.

So a trip to the hospital, surprisingly only an hour wait, to find out that I have a bronchial infection still. I got some free meds for today and a prescription that’s going to cost$43 that I don’t have and an order from the doctor to not go into work today or I’ll be completely FUBAR if I do.

I jokingly said, “Well, I have beer in my fridge so I’ll have no problem staying home today.” Beer I bought yesterday, but to my surprise he said, “Sounds like a plan!”

I was actually expecting, “Not a good idea. Don’t do it.”

Instead he said, “Just don’t take the medication if you do.” And when I said that I wasn’t expecting that response, he said that the beer would actually numb the tickling that is causing the gaging and coughing reflex. 

The scaring from the earlier coughing was minor and nothing serious.

So here I am. Drinking a beer and enjoying my Doctor Approved day off.

But there is this one unfortunate thing called, bills, and debt, and a new hard drive purchase that require money. Cash that I can’t be making if I’m home.

But if I go into work anyway, I could make matters worse and really turn my throat into hamburger.

I’m fucked if I do, and fucked if I don’t.

So rather than sit around playing with myself, I thought I would try and take my old computer’s hard drive out and place it in my newer computer.

All was going smooth when I went to attach the cables. The old fat ribbon type cable that the old drive uses will only go into one spot, and that is already used up by the DVD ROM drive. The DVD ROM drive that is FUBAR as far as playing DVD’s in, but still plays regular CD’s though.

So I thought. “Ahhh. I can do without the DVD for the time being.” So I unhooked it and plugged in the old hard drive.

I figured that since there is an OS already on the HD, it should boot up. Just goes to show what I know… it didn’t. And since the DVD drive is unhooked, I can’t install windowz again from the CD. FUCK!

So I put everything back the way it was. But then I thought, “Hey! If I have to use this old computer, maybe I’ll just swap the memory out from the newer one and put it in the old one to boost performance!”

Well, guess what? The newer memory is DDR, the POS Older one won’t take DDR. So I put the memory sticks back in the newer computer and put the damn thing away and fired the old POS computer back up.

Why do I even fucking bother!!??

So I put the computer away and say to myself, “Fucking paying for a computer I can’t use. That makes sense.” And that’s when I thought. “Hmmm, maybe I should call them and hopefully the warranty is still good and they’ll send a replacement.”

Nope! Why do I fucking bother!!??

The guy I spoke to was obviously a Level 1 tech guy, in other words, he only knows what his trouble shooting guide reads.

I said everything in this computer is breaking, and he said that it is a common thing for hard drives and DVD drives to break in a year or two.

Yeaaaaaaaaa. Riiiiiiiiiiiight! This old POS computer is over 8 years old and it’s still running strong. Unfortunately, it’s OLD and won’t operate normally with modern applications. It just doesn’t have the juice under the hood.

The tech guy said, “WOW! You’re lucky!” I said, “No, it’s just good hardware.”

He then went on to try and tell me that Hard Drive and stuff don’t usually last more than a year or two. I wasn’t about to have a pissing game with him to prove who was right, so I hung up since he want actually helping me any.

So here I am, back at square one again. Beer in hand.