The Not Happy Thread

That's worth a like and a

 

Gas a little more expensive in Japan?

 

All caught up on WF. My life no longer has meaning.

 

Join another forum. WF 's sister site, perhaps? WF.com

 

Is that your equivalent of eyestalks?

 

LOL!

 

I envy writers who can write under mental or emotional stress, who can channel that into a work of art. Whenever I get mentally or emotionally stressed, my creativity just shuts itself off.

Here's an example. I'm on Week 2 of staying at home due to the pandemic (force paid vacation courtesy boss) and outside a few hours on outlines, I've written precisely ZERO words. -_- You'd think this time would be heaven, right? Finally a chance for me to sit down and write like I've never written before but nope, my creativity went 'fuck this, I'm out.'

I know it's the stress of the pandemic, the overbearing feeling of the unknown and that's precisely the point. I'm somehow incapable of taking that stress and channeling it into my writing. And this lack of progress doesn't even help with my already existing anxiety that loves to pick on me if I put writing off for a while. -_-

I really do envy writers who can do this. What is your secret!? D:

 

Same boat, dude.

 

I live in Colorado and had planned to move back to New England in May. I was accepted into a Masters program in Vermont and orientation is supposed to be at the end of June.

But what is actually going to happen...?

 

Not long after posting in the happiness thread, I heard vehicles on the main road again.
What I want to know is where the hell are they going at 9am?! It's Sunday, and the churches have closed.

 

Hush your radar, Snoopy.

it’s a mission granny toward hospital distant chimneys..

all best, mat, frontline stormtrooper (rear section).

 

Annoyed, and more than annoyed.

I replaced the motherboard in my PC, and the thing booted up. But it had the exact same "Bad system config" error it had when I took it into the computer shop last month. Tried several hours to get rid of that, and then it stopped turning on except for a little cough of the fan, just as it was (not) doing when I took it in.

I paid those guys $50 and except for the fact my RAM card was out, there was no evidence they opened the unit at all. They sure didn't disturb the dust--- the interior was still filthy. (Yeah, I took the mini computer vac and the canned air to it.)

I wonder if they'll be reachable by phone tomorrow so I can ask them nicely why it was, again, that they thought it was the motherboard in the first place.

 

A sharp pain in your shoulder that pulses with your heartbeat is not conducive to a good night's sleep.

 

Oh, yeah.

 

Gonna go pick up a prescription and then eat some feelings.

 

Wish I had some snacks to do the same.

 

I wonder if it isn't just the boot sector on the hard drive all this time? The power thing might a pissed-off power unit.

 

Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. Or if I have two problems, actually, and maybe the bad systems config loop was the fatal blow to a failing power supply.

I opened the tower up again and the fans are all running when I turn on the chassis button. But no LED, no beeps, and only one blip of the HD light.

I'm thinking the power supply needs replaced, regardless of what the shop said.

If and when I get the machine to boot up again, I'm thinking I'm going to say hang it all and reinstall the OS. I've got my data backed up in the cloud, and I can add my programs back on as I need them.

Other people online have said they got that bad system config loop after a Windows 10 update. That's probably what my problem is.

 

If it is the boot sector on the hard drive, is that a software or a hardware issue? And is it possible to get a power unit to stop being pissed off, as you put it, or will it just need to be replaced?