Taking my baby to the Dr.

I just realize my 100th update on twitter was "Taking my baby to the Dr" I thought that was kinda interesting and worth blogging about since I would eventually blog about it. The Baby I'm talking about is my laptop he he...It has been sick since Monday June 22nd. So check this out I decided to wait and call Dell about it since I knew the warranty expired May 23rd 2009 almost a month previous the only reason I knew the date was because I wrote it down when I called on an service issue in Dec 2008 I still have the information in my Dell file I checked and thought crap. I wasn't in the mood to to deal with a service person on the line telling me how much it would cost etc.. so I waited til today Sat Jun 27th when I didn't have to work blah blah blah.

I called and guess what? My warranty expired June 23rd 2009! Ain't that about a bitch? If I had called that day it would have been covered. So I'm screwed and where I thought I was originally I just suck it up and deal with it. Dell told me how much it would cost they thought it may be the mother board or monitor. I then took it to Best Buy to see how much it would cost locally and I ask them to hook it up to one of their monitors to rule out the mother board which I did not think it was. Tah Dah! It worked on a different monitor. I was right! ^_^ The cost for them to fix it would have been the cost for a new computer. The best deal was to call Dell back and prepay so they would send me a gurney to send my baby to them in/on.

I then went and got my monitor out of the garage boxed up in the box it came in as if it was new :) it is a nice Sony 17inch TFT LCD monitor a nice slim design with 1280x1024 resolution. I use it for my desktop computer for my personal business, but my desktop is taken an extended vacation for now. It has been almost a year and a 1/2 since I've done anything with my personal business. I'm not sure when I will start up again I'm looking at the beginning of next year we will have to play it by ear.

Long story short it works. I hooked it up to my laptop once on I pressed Fn & F8 together and Tah Dah! it works now I know it is my screen/monitor. I am writing this post with it now. I just backed up everything to my external drive in case something happens to it on its plane ride to the Dr for surgery. After this weekend I will only be on blogging during the day during the week and no weekends until my baby return ^_^

I will be checking my favorite blogs on the weekend from my crackberry I just can't comment until Monday !!!!!Mauh!!!!!

Barns & Stables

So yesterday this girl I know asked me if I wanted to go to a dance/party and I said sure because I needed to get out and step outside my box and I hadn't spent much time with her in a while. The only condition was that I didn't want to drive. We met up and once we were on the road she gave me the address and I input it into my GPS navigation I did not realize until then that we were going to good ol Fort Collins. Then I regretted not wanting to drive considering it was going to take 2 1/2 hrs to get there. Once put into the GPS and it was loaded it stated our ETA was 9:13pm so I said to her "didn't you say it was over at 10pm?" she said "yes"I said "you do realize that were only going to be there for about an hour and then it would be over." She said "really" I said "yeah, do you still want to go?" she had that look on her face like she really wanted to go and she said "yes" I'm a sucker for that look from people only because I want the other person to be happy.

I said okay but your going to have to drive a little faster so we can get there sooner. It was the longest drive of my life and it took 3 hrs. We were going 30mph in a 75mph due to the rain (I mean her driving) on the highway. She was nervous driving in the rain lol lol I told her she could never drive us anywhere again and that I was driving back.

We arrive at the location and all we saw was a huge blue barn and stables. I was in AWE over the horses there had to be over 30 horses there. I wanted to stay with the horses especially this beautiful white one. Now I'm rambling......

Long story short we were at the wrong barn (O_x) so I made a phone call and we were 1/3 of a mile down the dirt road from the correct barn. We arrived there were a lot of vehicles and there stood the correct blue barn.

I ended up two stepping and doing the chicken dance while laughing my face off during the 1 hour we were there. Even though we spent more time in the car than at the dance I have to admit I had a lot of fun in one hour and there were a lot of Geeks there. I had my eye on this one geek. From the neck up he was hott! Below the neck he was 500% geek and all I could think about was taking him shopping and dressing him so it wasn't so obvious he was a geek. Now, I'm no fashion queen but he needed help. As it turned out this geek worked for the same company I work for go figure what are the chances! He was checking me out also, but since he was a true blood geek there was no way he was going to ask for my number. So I just told him to look me up at work and gave him my secret code name ^_^ Now the ball is in his court!

This is the short version (O^O)