Computer

This was the day devoted entirely to getting my computer working. After a leisurely stop at my neighborhood coffee shop, I called mom at the payphone (Dad had called my room the night before) and it was really nice to make contact with her. I then headed to Todai. Thankfully one of the guys planned to come in on a Saturday or I would have been out of luck - no key to the building. This isn't a very exciting report. After using up most of the rest of my calling card on hold with HP support I got a hold of someone who gave me some stuff to try and also told me I could do a live chat (i.e. free) next time I needed to get back in contact. Well, nothing he said to try worked. So I live chatted at least 4 times with HP and after a lot of things tried and reseating memory it seemed that the only solution would be to do a system recover - back to factory condition. I was really worried about losing software (not having any of my disks with me) but I took some measures and went for it. It worked!!!!! My computer is all better. And I didn't lose anything except for MS Office (which is kind of a big deal but a worthy sacrifice - and I can reinstall it with some CDs from the lab here). What a relief! It was weighing on me so much. But, as I told dad, it gave me a project to get my mind of off the other things. When I left at 7pm I had every intention of doing productive things - grocery shopping etc. but I just came home and slept again.