At the moment, I'm typing this from "ol' Groanie", probably the most reliable computer in the world, and aside from the fact it's 8 years old, and has a 28k modem as well as a 4 GB hard drive, she's a keeper, she just 'groans' a wee bit on the boot up. And hell, if computer life's were measured in dog years, ol' Groanie is one old bitch technically speaking, but she's what I got for the time being. And I really don't mind the 60 seconds it takes to get from page to page, it gives me time to appreciate the fact I have internet access at all. Viva La Groanie!
Keep in mind that I've not been tackling this huge repair job alone, I've involved HP support, and my A+ certified brother Matt, who is most likely rethinking continuing on to A++ at this point , but I can guarantee him loads of extra credit as teacher and peers tackle the lil freeze up issue in class tomorrow, my compaq has now reached the fetal pig part of it's life. If the suicidle survives this resurrection, she'll just die again in 10 months, a nice little accessory that comes with this particular model of Presario. Joy.
No offense to my little blue compaq with it's chic lil tower, sure, your fast and have a CD-RW drive and your fully compatible with my virgin high speed internet connection, but we need to come to some sort of middle ground now so I can use your bitch ass until I can afford a new and functional PC. Remember, it was me who replaced your Floppy drive without use of Viagra and I replaced your hard drive when yours crashed like a drunk in the gutter weeks after the Warranty expired. With that in mind I ask you to let the student fix your ass and I promise that I won't open you up and play with your connecters, I promise I won't add another piece of software or hardware until I have a new computer, I'll defrag every once-in-awhile, sometimes and I promise I will not molest your BIO's again, I will leave well enough alone, like the zit on my chin that is now a festered bloodred and double in it's original size, I will leave you alone, just get better soon.
She was a steal at $750, LOL, hey- it was Costco and golly, she's going for about $500. on ebay now, but I like the quirky lil thang, kinda, shoot me. One good thing about this is that it gets me all fired up about my own A+ education, although it unfortunately sidelines any continued web devopling lessons for lack of speed, shoot me, but I'm at my freakiest best when I'm learning something new until the next shiny object appears. Anyhoo, I've Googled her model number and only gripes and glitches appear in the links, I bought me a lemon, but golly sometimes with a lil sugar Lemons are good, even if you have to beat the pulp out of them.
