Mayday! Mayday!
I nearly killed my computer. I’ve been wanting to put up a post about my recent show in NJ, my trip to the East coast in general, and a salute to a great year and a tough post-season for the Phillies… This would be happening, but I have inadvertently scrambled my computer’s brain and have very little control over it right now. If you want to read a little on the show you can go here.
What happened? Glad you asked. I changed a setting to not allow my computer to go to sleep when it was unplugged. It was supposed to be temporary but I forgot to change it back. So I closed it, put it away, and then left for 9 hours. The poor computer was just sitting there in NYC, wide awake, suffocating in my backpack. It wasn’t until 16 hours after I put it away that I took it out. I thought it was dead. I plugged it in and it started but everything was messed up; Lack of oxygen to the brain… no email, no calendar, no address book, no bookmarks.
I drove back to Chicago with the thing asleep in the back, not sure if it was gonna make it. I spent about six hours on the phone today with Apple support and finally, thanks to the great technicians Leo and Andrew, have all of my essentials back up. It’s gonna live, but my computer is still very, very confused and it may take some more surgery… I promise to update with pictures and stuff (about real life) when we get rolling again.
Robbie F. Castleman wrote:
Poor little guy. Apples do go bad in a hot car or moldy backpack. Dogs and puppies, too. On the other hand, PCs are just machines–little replaceable androids that have no feelings at all, don’t care about you and pretty much are already dead. So, you don’t get attached at all. This is the secret of Microsoft… Now you know. There is a price to pay for Apple stuff–affection and a sense of loss when you nearly kill it. Hey, your choice, buddy. I say, it’s better to have never loved a computer than to suffer its loss…I’m sure that’s a country song somehow…but I lack the twang. Hope your little guy makes it back in perfect health–whatever you do, don’t just unplug it, don’t call the code, don’t give up. Believe. Also, don’t mention the Saints season in its hearing. It can’t handle that right now. It needs all its strength for the challenges it faces right now to live and to forgive you.
Posted on 08-Oct-07 at 8:20 pm | Permalink