Re-installation

The PC is slowly getting back up to speed after being replaced. This time it wasn’t anything quite as catastrophic as the hard disk suddenly dying. It was more like the gradual decay of the machine, specifically its power supply unit. For the last couple of weeks it’s been getting harder and harder to power up the machine. At first it manifested as pushing the power button and getting a flashing amber light instead of the usual whirs that signified booting up, but that was remedied by simply unplugging the USB external hard drive that was attached. Soon that work around failed to do it, and over the last few days, turning on the PC has been similar to trying to get an old car to work, with multiple pumps of the power button until grudgingly, it finally starts up. Since we were faced with blowing a couple of hundred dollars to fix it, or splurging a few hundred to just get a new PC, we opted for the latter. I can’t really blame the old PC for dying; it was two years old and actually survived being freighted to the other side of the planet, so it definitely has the mileage.

In other news… Canada losing to Singapore in Ping Pong? UN. AC. CEPTABLE.