So I had a guy in the IT department at work check out my drives. They run fine when hooked up as slaves (so windows doesn’t boot from them). He copied some essential files back into the startup folder (or something) and said it should work. It didn’t.

I was so pissed that I decided to go and play racquetball. The place was packed. I would have had to wait at least an hour to play on the “challenge court.” So, another dissapointment there. When I got back Aaron was preparing to go to a show and meet Danny Carey (the club is the size of our living room), something I wouldn’t miss for the world if I didn’t have to work the next day.

So now I have to wait till next week (or later) for this new Dell I ordered to arrive. Once that happens I can plug the drives in as slaves to the Dell HD and get my files out. Then I’ll toally reformat them, plug them back into the old computer and reinstall windows.

Speaking of the new computer, I was mislead by Dell’s “product information” to think that my video card was dual VGA… Jon told me it wasn’t. I spent TWO HOURS on the phone with the Dell people last night only to end up with some girl in India that told me it doesn’t have dual VGA ports, but all I need is a splitter. Keep in mind that this was the “technical support” department and she didn’t know what dual VGA ports meant….. She told me to just wait until it gets here and return it if it doesn’t have what I want, at that point I got quite angry (I’d basically spent 90 minutes with 99% of that on hold) and told her I wanted to cancel my order if it didn’t have it, I didn’t want to waste time waiting for something I might not want only to return it and wait wait wait some more. She said she would transfer me to someone that could help me with that…after being on hold for another half hour I was transferred to a dial tone. If it doesn’t have dual monitor support then all I have to do is buy a dual monitor capable video card (under $50) so it isn’t a huge big deal…but I feel mislead as a customer. Too bad nobody in India cares.

So, I can’t check my email at home anymore for obvious reasons (except when Aaron lets me use his computer). When I tried to check it this morning I got this message:

“Sorry for the inconvience!
The root partition on this server is running out of disk space. Cpanel operation has been temporarily suspended to prevent something bad from happening. Please ask your system admin to remove any files not in use on that partition.”

so….great. I’m off the grid apparently with no computer or email account.

at least this way the T-1000 can’t find me