WTF!

Seriously. WTF?

Spring break comes along, so I've got plenty of time to work on the website I haven't touched almost 4 years, catch up on some homework I was lagging on, and just waste a lot of time in general. Nope. So much for those plans. My computer has always had a few li'l glitches and hangups, but recently has been a bit slow. I go to restart and it won't boot up. Not only is it not booting up, it's not detecting hard drives, or RAM. Also the CD drives aren't getting power, and I've no idea if the hard drives are as well or not. And now that my monitor is in power-save mode I can't see what's going on at all, unless I activate it using the keyboard. Oh yeah...computer won't boot up far enough to let me. Son of a gun. Seriously.

Also, no one is buying my van. Sad as I am to be selling it, I'm really eager to have her off my hands and get some cash for a down payment on a newer car. I even called the pick-a-part junkyard, and they said they wouldn't take it because apparently it's "too big for the crusher" after no one wants it and they are done with it. Seriously. A little hippie van too big for their crusher.

So, I called Carmax (because "we'll buy anythng") and they actually said they'd buy it. Drove it in for an appraisal, and after about half an hour or so they came back with an amount that my van was worth to them. $50.00. That's right. Five-zero. Granted all they were going to do is send it to an auction block and can't guarantee any return on their part, but I was at least hoping for maybe 500. Ouch. However, the guy that was helping me out, told me about a program called AirCheckTexas sponsored by the Houston-Galveston Area Council. Meeting the requirements of the program, I am eligible to receive a voucher to take to the dealer with my vehicle and get 3000 off a trade in. Pretty sweet, no?

Hopefully in about 2-3 weeks, I'll be driving around in a newer and more reliable, although substantially less stylish, vehicle.


Also, the heater broke in the house again. Same night the temperature dropped to the mid-thirties (wtf?) It is once again fixed though. Not as major as last time we had no heat.

School is going well. Passed my Tai Chi midterm, doing reasonably well in my Programming class, multimedia class, and web design class.

I think that recaps pretty well for now. Mainly I wanted to gripe about my PC being crappy and deciding to hate me.

Til next time,
Stay warm and stay smilin' !
CJ