sonofableep

after four days of uninterrupted thanksgiving gluttony and sloth, i return to work ready and eager to tackle the challenges of the coming week.  it’s a big week here at ol’ zenimax, and i’ve got a lot on my plate.  no matter!  i’m charged up!  let’s do this!  hell, i’m looking forward to it!

except i can’t login.  dammit.  reboot.  okay, now i can login, but my user profile has been completely wiped.  double-dammit.  well, i can’t worry about that now…i’ve got a lot on my plate, remember?  right.  okay, let’s just temporarily config a few things, reboot, and…oh nos, here comes CHKDSK!  oh cripes.

okay, chkdsk hits 100%, claiming to fix a few errors along the way.  fine.  but why are my screens black?  and why are the internal fans speeding up…and up…and up…GOOD LORD SHE’S GONNA BLOW!  aigh!  power down!  and stare at the black screens listen to the silence of my dormant machine.

now what?  the mind scrambles madly for a plan B, C, and D (i’ve got a lot on my plate, you see).  grab some work software and go write music at home for the week?  dredge up some old stuff written for something else?  throw in the compositional towel and license some existing music?  as alternate plans go, those all suck.  let me try and boot this sucker one more time…

okay, logging in.  okay, still no user profile, but if i never logout or shutdown, maybe i can get some work done.  oh look…most of my config files for things like Sonar, Audition, etc. went down with the user profile ship, and IT can’t seem to find them.  so my super-tweaked-and-customized DAW is now staring at me going, “hello brad!  i see this is your first time using this software.  let me give you a guided tour of our features…”.

didn’t i just write an “i hate PC DAWs” blurb last week?  shame to have to write another so soon.