No I actually didn't forget to post this time. As my luck would have it Hubby got the flu on Thursday and by Friday night I had it. His Superman immune system kicked it by Saturday night but my shitty immune system decided to be lazy again.
Actually, it's not that my immune system sucks, it's just not very strong at fighting things off quickly and instead overcompensates by allowing me to get really high fevers.
Luckily today is the first day I woke up without a fever right away, but my body is totally exhausted. It feels like a chore just to sit up in bed, which is really annoying because I managed to get a small break in my fever yesterday afternoon and was able to move around the apartment a bit.
I also woke up this morning to Hubby cleaning up the apartment a bit. His brain basically told him that when a person is sick and the area around them is crappy they can feel worse. So he cleaned up to help me mentally feel better and then my body would have a nicer time to physically feel better. This theory I think has a lot truth to it so I don't argue that at all. The only problem is I guess his man brain also told him to not communicate this nice gesture to me, because men don't normally communicate "small things". I don't know, that's the only way my brain made any sense of it.
So as I wake up and see all this, despite my exhaustion, my ocpd self was going just a bit insane.
This past week was not without craziness. Before I got sick I spilt a small amount of beer on my laptop. I of course took all the actions to shut it off and get it upside down, etc, but I worried if any that I didn't immediately wipe up got under the keys. So a friend and my first youngest brother offered to walk me though the process of cleaning it, through a video chat. I joked with Hubby about how I should ground myself to keep any static from getting to my computer. He suggested since all my clothes had polyester that I should just go naked with some rubber snow boots on. I decided my friend and little brother wouldn't appreciate Hubby's humor and just wore light clothing and boots.
My brother came online first so I started basic steps with him only to find I couldn't do anything after removing the back because Apple has this bullshit specialty 5-point screw that they designed and patented to "keep customers from messing around with the internals". Bull shit. Apple just wants to control their product and they know they can make money off their customers by keeping them from doing the most basic of tasks like changing a battery! Seriously? I thought for a moment that maybe they just thought their customers were so stupid that they wouldn't even let them change or remove the battery, but no. It's really that Apple just wants everyone to believe that their machines run off of magic and only they can fix it for you.....for a price of course.
I looooove Apple's software. It's the best I've ever had, but their hardware sucks balls. It's not the best out there and if any computer equipment ran off of magic it certainly wouldn't be any of Apple's stuff. While I love my laptop it also can't to a lot of things I want it to, like game for example. I can't really do any gaming with Apple machines because not only are they not powerful enough but many games are only designed for the PC. On top of that I really don't like supporting a company that monopolizes their product so much that they won't even let their customers do the simplest of computer maintenance on their own, to keep their machines happy. I should be allowed to change out my ram if I want. A monkey can do that. But no, Apple has to because of this dumb ass screw.
So long story short I've been thinking of building my own machine. It would definitely give me the control I want with my computer and be more powerful as well as upgradable. Plus, it would help me learn more about computers.
I'm not totally dead set on it yet as it would likely require me selling my laptop to get the money, if I wanted it sooner rather than later. I'm really spoiled on the portability of laptops. Like right now, I'm sick but I can at least keep my brain from utter bordum by having my computer here in bed. I have to think about it more, but my brother helped show me what kinds of things I could get to build a nice one for a cheap price.
Anyways. I unfortunately feel like a drained battery. I just got back a bit of energy from eating a bit but before that I could have been a zombie and no one would have noticed the difference.....minus the eating of brains and stuff. I'm going to quit now while I still have enough energy to maybe watch a movie.
Hey, Trust me on this one sis, the five point screw is the least of your worries. I have one, and when taking apart my apple after it went X_X the crap just gets worse. Admittedly I was attempting a salvage operation to recover my HD and any parts that could be sold on ebay. Luckily I have the HD, but the rest is six under.
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