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7:42 PM
battlecollie:  arguably the worst day of my life, technology-wise.
battlecollie: so, last night, IamTash and I decide to play a new MMO together, since I’ve got shit-all else that I want to do until Freenode lifts my kline or Micah has time for Paws-stuff
battlecollie: I go buy windows.
battlecollie: 300$.
battlecollie: I try and run Boot Camp; it panics halfway through, both of my interior drives’ partition maps are Completely Fuck’t for reasons unbeknownst to me.
battlecollie: so. I finally get *windows* to install on one of them, but it wipes both completely in the process, because it doesn’t recognize the maps that we just fucked up, unsurprisingly.
battlecollie: I download Rift, that takes about five hours.
battlecollie: mind you, this is all LAST NIGHT.
gqbrielle: battlecollie: oh lawd o_o
battlecollie: so, wake up, decide I need to go back and fix all the damage done last night
7:46 PM
battlecollie: (notice, it’s 7PM here, I just got online for the first time today, and I'm still angry. this *can’t* be going to o well.)
battlecollie: poking around, I discover that the Lion "system recovery" partition was wiped too … which, since Apple doesn’t use operating-system disks anymore, means I have no way of installing OS X.
battlecollie: I think, okay, I’ll install an old Snowpard, and upgrade to Lion, yah? I drive to my storage unit Cross town, and dig my old snowpard disk out of storage.
battlecollie: half an hour later, I’m discovering that it won’t boot from that. it’s too old/scratched/used.
battlecollie: okay, no biggie, I’ll buy a new one. d20.
battlecollie: I go to EVERY COMPUTER STORE IN TOWN over the next three and a half hours. NOBODY IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING CITY sells any physical copies of OS X anymore, out-of-date or otherwise.
gqbrielle: o_o
gqbrielle: !what @ battlecollie
battlecollie: I'm like, okay, I'll buy a disc repairer, try and fix up my old scratched disc
gqbrielle: damn purr is gone. i already forgot.
battlecollie: try that. no dice. d0.
7:49 PM
battlecollie: so I'm like, GOD DAMNIT WHATEVER, I JUST WANT A DEV ENVIRONMENT. I'll go install Arch Linux and use that until Apple inc will ship me a Snowpard disc or a Lion USB stick or something.
battlecollie: I go back out. I buy CDs. I come back, I torrent Arch.
battlecollie: turns out, Windows won’t recognize my CD burner.
battlecollie: so I have no way, now, of installing ANY OPERATING SYSTEM OTHER THAN WINDOWS
battlecollie: well that, of course, is completely unacceptable; I can't survive the week+ that it would take to ship me an OS X disc on WINDOWS ALONE!?
battlecollie: I’m left with exactly one resort:
battlecollie: drive 380 miles north to the only Apple Store in this half of the state.
battlecollie: I carry my god-damned seventy pound Mac Pro hunk of god damned mess up three stories of stairs and across a mall that, I swear, is two miles long;
battlecollie: they use one of their Apple-repair-tech machines to remote-wipe and clone a copy of Lion over it.
battlecollie: takes, oh, file minutes, because my machine has a OCZ Vertex 3, one of the fastest SSDs in the world.
7:52 PM
battlecollie: five*
battlecollie: WHY.
battlecollie: DOES.
battlecollie: EVERYTHING.
battlecollie: IN.
battlecollie: THE.
battlecollie: WORLD.
battlecollie: EXCEPT.
battlecollie: APPLE.
battlecollie: SUCK.
gqbrielle: o.o;
battlecollie: I hate everything, everywhere, and everyone. 24 hours later, I'm back where I started, but with none of my data; and I have to embark upon the same task, now that I ACTUALLY HAVE AN OS THAT DOESN’T SUCK INSTALLED: getting Windows and Arch triple-booted on this thing, and re-installing Rift again.
battlecollie: oh and I have to clean up the house when I get back to wilmington (did I mention I'm still up north at the Apple Store?),
gqbrielle: you did not.
battlecollie: because I have a prospective renter coming tomorrow.