1.  I got my tax money on Friday, and have been on a slightly conservative spending spree.

2. I bought Rock Band 2 (’nuff said)

3. Microsoft decided to make my computer act retarded.

To elaborate on the 3rd…

Everything was working fine. Kid was watching a movie on my computer, it went kaput, I restart, and get a stupid “Reload boot” error.

I didn’t feel like dicking with it, so I let it go for a couple days, figuring that somehow the boot file or MBR was fucked up. I know how to fix those problems, but was kind of enjoying the days off to be honest.

Well, I give in and try to fix it today. Neither fixboot, fixmbr nor bootcfg fixed it. So, what was the problem? Oh, that my main drive was jumpered as slave.

Now, this would normally be an issue that could be corrected the first time you use the drive. But no, I have been running this copy of xp pro on my computer for oh, about 7 months now. Not a single problem. And then *poof* Windows decides that it has to be on a master jumpered drive. WTF? I didn’t realize that Windows had such a picky AI installed.

But, needless to say, all is well in Athenaland now. Computer is back up and running better (because I also can-aired out the psu, cpu and gpu) and I will be back soon to give some insight as to why I both like and dislike my spiffy new Wii.