View Full Version : I hate my life!
Yekhefah
01-11-2007, 04:17 PM
Awww, and here I thought I could make you laugh. ::)
(For everyone else... what I wrote is "I drank beer for breakfast." Don't ask me why that's the Hebrew phrase I know best. I hung around way too many damn Israelis in college.)
Lola Rose
01-11-2007, 04:24 PM
Hehe... I think I can.... lol. but it'd be a pathetic waste of thousands and thousands if I couldn't, since I spent grades PK-9th at a private jewish school in miami.....
I did laugh! lol.... see. In bold.
I feel like we've got our own little jew club :)
Yekhefah
01-11-2007, 04:34 PM
You mean we don't? I dunno about you, but I got my copy of the Protocols as I stepped out of the mikvah.
::)
Lola Rose
01-11-2007, 04:46 PM
oh, this is an extra special jew club. Much more exclusive then the mikva club. We're the founding members (co-jewsh american princesses if you will) of the SW jew club ;D 8) }:D Co-japs 4 life!!!
^ this is what 2 hours of sleep in 3 days will get ya!!!
Yekhefah
01-11-2007, 04:50 PM
:laughing: You can be president of the JAP society if I can be treasurer! (Gotta pinch those pennies!)
Yekhefah
01-11-2007, 04:50 PM
And BTW, I think this thread wins the All-Time Thread Drift Award. ::)
Lola Rose
01-11-2007, 05:30 PM
hmmm. are you sure... there have been worse.... we just need to bring it back on topic... all together now
"LIFE IS SHIT!"
see, right back on topic :)
seriously girl, get thee to chat! ( just had a hamlet moment!)
VenusGoddess
01-11-2007, 05:32 PM
I'm sorry to hear about this Yek...not much advice I can offer except to stay positive (thoughts become things). ;)
And, I'm sure Adrian and Pooka won't mind sharing some lap space...so if you need a hug...just scooch them over a bit. heh
Mastridonicus
01-11-2007, 08:39 PM
It may be bad yek... but do they see you rollin?
R DEY HATIN?!
cherryripeboy
01-11-2007, 08:44 PM
[QUOTE=short skirts;938482]I feel so bad for you..it must feel like you've lost 1/2 your life right now.
I had something similar happen a few months ago. I was worried I'd lose everything too and had a few people tell me basically what they told you. One guy said if my harddrive wasn't gone I could do what cherryripeboy said- =$$$$
The bit with the tank or the external drive enclosure?
Enclosures usually start around $30 and if the GS installed it, you'd have to pay $39 for that service. Hence my suggestion and that assumes the HD is healthy.
The cheapest computer is still 355 or so tower only.
Oh and I absolutely had the day from hell. The only thing worse would be to be physically assaulted or tared and feathered.
I know how you feel Yek all too well. Yes I'm down, and yes they are still kicking me. Only wish i have the weapons and strength to continue fighting.
Yek, don't do the $70 diagnostic. That's like a $500 champagne room... good, but you can get the same thing without the strawberries for half the price. Find a local geek shop and wear something cute and cry. Really.
cherryripeboy
01-12-2007, 08:35 AM
^^ I double lena's advice. The GS will get you if they can.
Yekhefah
01-12-2007, 09:04 AM
Duly noted. Thanks, guys. I don't know where to find a shop like that because I'm seriously the only one in Los Angeles with a PC... there are Mac repair shops on every corner but no one uses PC's out here.
On the upside, my boss did pay me yesterday after all, so I can have it looked at over the weekend.
gameover
01-13-2007, 07:50 PM
Duly noted. Thanks, guys. I don't know where to find a shop like that because I'm seriously the only one in Los Angeles with a PC... there are Mac repair shops on every corner but no one uses PC's out here.
On the upside, my boss did pay me yesterday after all, so I can have it looked at over the weekend.
Yek, it may seem like that, bu seriously. PC's are like 99 percent of the market.
And, if you need cash, you should seriously just start dancing more. I've seen your pics, and if you were in my city, you'd make 1k from me every week :)
Duly noted. Thanks, guys. I don't know where to find a shop like that because I'm seriously the only one in Los Angeles with a PC...
Look in your phone book under computer repair. Pick up your phone and dial the numbers. Say, "hi, do you work on pcs?" "okay, thanks." Make a list of the ones that do and go there in person. Don't go to CompUSA or any big chains like that.
Yekhefah
01-14-2007, 12:24 PM
Fair enough. I still can't afford it for another couple of weeks until I get my next paycheck... and it looks like for a new computer and my short, I'm gonna have to go back to dancing and just give up on sleep and a personal life for the next few months. It's going to be hard to maintain my career job at the same time, but it's just gonna have to happen. I'll head out tomorrow night and find a new club. *sigh*
Lola Rose
01-14-2007, 12:32 PM
hey, at least it's only temporary, and you'll be able to do your short :)
Yekhefah
01-14-2007, 12:39 PM
*IF* I make the money. That's three or four grand in as many weeks, WHILE working a full-time day job. I hope it can be done but it's certainly no guarantee.
Katrine
01-14-2007, 01:50 PM
I know I've said this before, and I don't want to seem insensitive, but can't you dance on the weekends, or on your days off for some extra cash? Whatever you do, good luck.
I also suggest looking for some russian owned computer geek shops in the west hollywood area. You can barter with them and probably make a deal. Or I could be way off, not sure. I can call my cousin and ask. Russians can do all kinds of things with PC's, many smart geeks.
Yekhefah
01-14-2007, 03:13 PM
Hey, thanks. I'll look around in WeHo then; it's close by.
And yeah, I'm giving up the days off and I'm going to find a new club tomorrow night after work. Going to try and pull four or five nights a week (any more than that, and my day job will definitely suffer).
It's finding a new club that's the hard part. *sigh* I really hate the hiring process.
Kandy04
01-14-2007, 03:37 PM
I agree computer problems are the bane of our existence. They make our lives easier MOST of the time. Do you actually need a laptop? I only ask (and I should know better really) but I have a desktop computer you can have. I'd have to ship it but it works fine. It's not a high end machine but works fine. Tower, keyboard, mouse, monitor if you need it.
I hate to see anybody in this much despair...when I have a computer in my basement I don't use.
Kandy
Yekhefah
01-14-2007, 07:31 PM
That's really sweet, Kandy! But yeah, I do need a laptop for work. Thanks though. :)
fancygirl
01-14-2007, 07:59 PM
are you close to UCLA or any other college, community college, hell-- even a high school?
Look up their websites. Then look up:
Computer technical support.
Most colleges have this. email whoever the head mucky muck is and ask for referrals to have someone look at your mac in their free time.
Also-- call and pretend to be a student, then ask questions. They can walk you through that on the phone if there's a safe mode or anything else helpful.
Also ask if they have any way to read the files off the computer and back them up onto a hard drive. They might be nice enough to do this for free if you bring in the protable hard drive. Or there might be a small fee.
Even at a community college, there should be an IT support group somewhere in there, whether at the computer labs or somewhere else. Email a computer professor and ask for referrals.
Even at a high school you might be able to get a tech teacher or the local techno geek club to look at your computer and help you for cheap.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS take advantage of school systems. They're their own little support communities.
AND, in the spirit of that article melonie posted in response to the woman living on 12K a year, Churches are pretty darn good networks to tap into as well.
Print flyers about your plight and needing help. You might get a youth group member doing it for volunteer hours, or a person doing it for cheap/free out of the goodness of their hearts. Post those suckers from the Chinese Baptist place to the Mosque to the Catholic church.
aviendha
01-14-2007, 08:14 PM
Yekefah, a memory problem would be relatively cheap to fix. If they diagnose it and that is the problem, do NOT buy memory from them! Go to newegg.com or some place that will sell it to you for much cheaper. Well...I'm assuming you know how to replace laptop memory and while that's not particularly difficult, everyone has their comfort levels with technology and that's just reality. If you know anyone who can replace it (even the IT staff at your job), try to do that. No sense in paying the Geek Squad $50 to do what is literally a 5-minute job.
Otherwise, if it is an issue of replacing the computer, please PM me and I can offer you some options.
fancygirl
01-14-2007, 08:18 PM
worse case scenario: call a Mac store, get a guy technogeek and try to trade lapdances for getting him to fix yo' shit.
cherryripeboy
01-14-2007, 08:18 PM
Ram on laptops is usually easy, you need to know what type, and where it is. Most are just in one of the unscrewable panels on the bottom. The worse are under the keyboard, and can take some working on to get to. If you have odd problems, after the change then you may have bad ram.
Have you heard from them yet? Now would be a good time to call and give them that service order number. It is not like they have a guy waiting for your call all in front of a computer or something.
Yekhefah
01-15-2007, 11:08 AM
I'm going to shelve the issue for another week or two and continue working off K's computer. I'm going to try to dance my way to a new laptop. I'm not sure the PC is worth fixing; it's given me trouble for years and it's fairly old anyway.