I just had one. Got up Saturday morning to nasty wet rainy miserable weather. Ok, stuck in the house, I’ll work on a few niggling computer projects. First up, fix this tablet pc I got. Go to boot it, stylus is stuck in it’s recepticle and I manage to break it off such that the business end is stuck inside the tablet, rendering the thing useless. Doh! Time to dissasemble.

Meanwhile, I’ve been charging my new toy and it’s time to fill it with music. I start transferring mp3’s from cd archives onto my main desktop because it works sort of like iTunes does on a mac, you need a computer based music archive to synch it with. I note that this seems to be taking an inordinately long time but I’m engrossed with the tablet. I manage to disassemble it and retrieve the business end of the stylus without too much trouble, but when I puncture the lead seal on the end of a new tube of crazy glue it pops like a zit and splatters minute but annoying quantities of crazy glue around my work area, including quite a bit on my fingers. Which of course stick together. At least it narrowly missed splattering on the tablet’s screen, but now I was pissed.

After some cleanup I check up on the mp3 process and realize something isn’t right, file transfers are going really slowly. I flail around and decide ehh, it’s windows, reboot usually clears up these indsiduous issues. One reboot later I have a pc that….won’t boot? Wtf? Now I am fully angry, the technology is collapsing around me.

An hour of digging later, I conclude that one of the drives on the system, a 120gb maxtor, is on death’s door. How do I conclude this? It won’t reliably mount, and at one point during this process I discover that when it won’t mount, if I pick it up and drop it on my desk from an inch or so up, it mounts. I spend the rest of my Saturday trying to find drive space for about 80 gigs of stuff, (mostly mp3s), a process that’s constantly interrupted by system lockups and long silent ‘i’m just trying to mount this drive again’ pauses by the PC as it struggles to work with the dying drive.

To cap the day off, by Saturday night I can tell from my swelling glands and scratchy throat that I’m coming down with the cold that’s been making the rounds. Oh…and though I finally coax the tablet pc into running chkdsk, it still won’t shut down without locking up. Sigh.

I guess on a slightly positive note, the cold leaves me with Monday off, so there’s something 😉