I realised that it's been a while since I
mentioned mutant squirrels in any of my blog posts. Obviously they've been
lying low to prepare for their latest coup: destroying my computer.
When I turned it on, all seemed as usual. A
beautiful flamingo greeted me (maybe if I'd chosen a squirrel, none of this
would have happened?) when suddenly... it was no longer there. Before my
horrified eyes appeared... The Blue Screen of Death. (Capitals definitely
necessary.)
I can't even make light of this. I nearly
fell off my chair in shock. (Although, to be honest, I shouldn't have been
rocking back on two 'legs' anyway. Listen to your elementary school teachers!)
Thankfully, after a longggggggg rebooting session, all my files reappeared as
usual. (Well, I'm hoping- I've actually been afraid to check.)
After this near heart attack, I decided
that it would be a good idea to back up all of my important files (read:
writing and photos, not schoolwork, because if I lose that it's an easy excuse
to be late) onto one of the many external hard drives we have lying about. (Why
do we have more than one? Who knows...)
It took me about fifteen minutes to locate
one. (Of course the day I want one, they'll all be hidden.) It weighs about twenty pounds, so lugging it
up the stairs was a nice little workout. Both my desk and the bed were exactly
the wrong distance from the plug-in, so I had to crouch awkwardly on the floor
with the laptop... and it told me it would take twenty minutes an hour ago.
Then, I logged onto my Blogger account to
post this... and realised that all the blogs I followed had, as one of my
friends would say, dropped off the face of the earth. Everything was not
okie-dokie-artichokie (another friend-ism). I looked at a couple of these
blogs, and I was still registered as a follower- my account had just decided
that I would no longer be receiving updates from them. (As you can see, I'm a
little hypocritical. What would I do without my daily blog reading? I might
actually have to do research during classes!)
Fingers crossed- hopefully they'll reappear
soon.
Gahh. How do you get mutant squirrels to
forgive you? (I'm guessing that running around screaming like a banshee
wouldn't help... nor do I want to invite over the neighbours' cat to eat them. He'd surely get indigestion.)
hey! love your blog, am following, would love if you followed me back! :)
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Thank you :) And yes, I'd love to!
DeleteDude. Those mutant squirrels. Have been lurking about here and it's starting to freak me out. Hopefully my laptop will not be next (or, rather, hopefully they don't have anything against Macs!)...
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is... WATCH OUT. They're evilll...
DeleteSounds like the zombie squrriels that decided to infect my desktop.....
ReplyDeletexoxo
Momo-chan
Ugh, that sucks! Hopefully they leave you fast!
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