Ironic
Last night on-call wasn't bad, fortunately. This morning, I took the kids to school came back had a good 2 cups of coffee and kicked butt at work. I was jamming this morning. I updated all my tickets, resurrected my projects and fired out emails for updates ect. Yes, this morning was good for me.
My brother-in-law came by for a surprised visit. A buddy had acquired a PC and wanted me to check it out. I set it up (it was only the base_no monitor ect.) and cranked it on. "No OS found". Hmm, maybe the harddrive is clean? I thought. The following converstation went like this;
I asked my brother-in-law, Where did your friend get this?
"Uh a friend of his was raided by the police and tried to take the harddrive out. He said it was still good. He owed him money but gave him this instead."
As thoughts of child porn, drug smuggling secrets in PGP on this pc ran through my mine I just shook my head. "OK"
I checked CMOS and it showed to be good. He left it for me to play with and I did for a while. Ironically, it began working. Cool. Must be a loose cable. I scanned through the harddrive and it was clean. Nothing my imagination had drummed up.
I then began to get back to my work. I had to reboot my work pc and then it happened. I get a black screen "Non-system disk or disk error" Oh crap. To no avail by harddrive had crashed. What the? Long story short I had to purchase a harddrive at Best Buy to fedex with my laptop to Corporate for them to set me up. I had to acquire a harddrive because they don't have any harddrives on hand. Million dollar company but not harddrives on hand. OK. I should get it back Thursday. Best Buy only had one availible, a 100 gigabyte drive for around 200 bucks. I will have to send in my receipt for reimbursement. This was ironic. I fixed a computer as mine went down.
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