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The adventure of HORRIBLE
14 years ago
LeonClaus (7:15:55 PM): Ok... So.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:16:01 PM): welcome back?
LeonClaus (7:16:05 PM): Let's start from the begining.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:16:21 PM): k
LeonClaus (7:17:10 PM): Yesterday, I finally became fed up with my enviroment. I was tired of being the passenger into how people treated my room. And yes, I don't pay rent, I don't really offer too much back, but it's not as if I don't want to help in any way I can, because I do. But that isn't what matters here.
LeonClaus (7:18:25 PM): I finally tore into my room yesterday at about 9 aM, taking garbage out, rearranging shit, and just generally moving things around to START making a difference. At 11AM a family friend, Andy, the son of my fathers late-best friend Tom, showed up at our doorstep needing a place to stay thanks to being evicted from his appartment. His family lives in texas, he's unemployed, ect ect.
LeonClaus (7:20:02 PM): So, then everyone began to help, assuming that Andy needed the better half of my room to crash. We decided Glenn gets to share my room, as I know glenn much better anyway. I cleaned out ALL of the garbage/toys/dead things out of my brother's closet that he'd never touched in 13 years, and just generally really made a difference in the room. Finally, when I had changed all I could, my mother, Glenn and I decided we'd go to walmart to purchase what we would need for the new space. And look for a desk for me, as the dresser thing wasn't cutting it.
LeonClaus (7:21:28 PM): We went to walmart, bought groceries, along with a cot and inflatible matress for Glenn, a 70$ Desk/Cupboard/Mini table combo for me, with a chair mat so I dont have to run ruts into the barren wood floor anymore, a new trashcan, an extension cord/splitter, and a pillow.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:21:49 PM): yay
LeonClaus (7:21:54 PM): We come home, with a 5'x2' block box I had to carry alone practically up three flights of stairs
LeonClaus (7:22:28 PM): It took me, with some handy-man help from Andy (locating screws/tools/parts of the desk), 3 hours to put it together, with only one true error--
LeonClaus (7:22:59 PM): The back piece of wood to hold the cardboard finish to the back was put on upside down. So it's not 100% bolted to my desk, but that doesn't matter.
LeonClaus (7:23:35 PM): I also fucked up the placement of the right/left sides of the keyboard shelf drawer things, and screwed up a doorway hinge/washer about 12 times.
LeonClaus (7:23:52 PM): I attempted to put together the other pieces of furniture, but couldn't.
LeonClaus (7:24:30 PM): I set up my computer on my newly made desk and attempted to make it work, after dusting it off. After my GOING AWAY FOREVER status update.
LeonClaus (7:24:56 PM): Something burst in my old PSU, and it refused to power my computer any more. It recieved power, but did nothing to disperse it to my computer.
LeonClaus (7:25:35 PM): After 2 hours of research I finally couldn't stay up anymore. Out of outrage and the heavy emotional place I've been in the past few days, I needed sleep. It was 2 am in the morning.
LeonClaus (7:26:03 PM): Waking up at about 1pm, I got up and fiddled with my computer for 1-2 hours, before contacting anyone I could on my phone/glenn's laptop to get any information I could.
LeonClaus (7:26:43 PM): Amber convinced me it had to be the PSU, and I thought I'd be fucked for a few days, forced to eat up my entire budget and then some to get a replacement part on newegg or something.
LeonClaus (7:26:58 PM): She told me to go to any store but Best Buy, and they should stock relatively cheap, effective PSU's.
LeonClaus (7:28:27 PM): I called all the local shops, and specialty electronic stores, no one stocked any. Andy wanted to help, so I asked him if he'd be willing to drive me up to Wilsonville, a 20-30 minute drive, to Fry's Home Electronic store. The best electronic store in all of Oregon. You need it? It's there.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:28:47 PM): Frys is like god
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:28:52 PM): we have frys here too
LeonClaus (7:29:15 PM): My mother offered to pay for the PSU, but I told her it would be another 50-70$, and after the desk, I couldn't really ask for that. She did offer me a 20$ to buy more canned air for dusting.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:30:25 PM): you keep talking, I'll be right back cause I gotta pee
LeonClaus (7:30:26 PM): Now, on the way to Fry's, I get there and find a 500 watt PSU for 45.99. At the time I thought my computer's old PSU was 550 watt, apparently HP Pavilion a6650f PSU's are 300watt, according to the internet. But anyway, it was a good purchase.
LeonClaus (7:32:53 PM): So, I wont be buying anything fun or dandy the rest of the month, but being able to get on my computer is all I ask for. At the store, btw, I was doing a constant stomach clenching dance, after having eaten nothing but gut-wrenching Jack 'n the Box breakfast meal, after a miscommunication with this spacey retarded cashier on the JntB off the highway. Tl;dr I wanted to fall to my knees and spew from all ends. With pain, cold sweats rising up from my toes, and a constant lack of balance. After finding a place to pee (I had to use an employee bathroom), I at least felt more composed to consult someone without vomitting on them and doing a weird ass wiggle dance.
LeonClaus (7:33:31 PM): I buy the thing, come out of Fry's, we get in Andy's truck and get ready to go. Here I am thinking I'm going to barf all over everything, but once we got the truck going I felt much better.
LeonClaus (7:33:49 PM): So we're coming out of Wilsonville, on the country-side roads, when, suddenly Andy starts freaking out.
LeonClaus (7:34:09 PM): His engine heat flares up, his power light turns on, and he tried to SWERVE his wheel, the car was NOT responding.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:34:50 PM): antifreeze leak
LeonClaus (7:35:01 PM): He's freaking out. This fucking school-distract place has NO median to pull off to, there's no clear spot in place, and we're about to catch fire. I tell him, grab the wheel and drag that fucker down to the right, and we fucking. We were the luckiest fuckers ever.
LeonClaus (7:35:50 PM): The kids were coming home from school, but there was no one in that spot, our breaks locked up, and we drove up until our fender hit the light post, eating up the corner of an intersection, with just barely enough room to get by us.
LeonClaus (7:36:19 PM): I get out, engine's burning, and leiu and behold, antifreeze -pouring- out of the car. I THOUGHT it was a leak... But no, it gets so much better.
LeonClaus (7:36:27 PM): It was the collant belt.
LeonClaus (7:36:53 PM): It snapped, got caught AROUND the radiator's fan and grill, and the antifreeze was BOILING out of the tank.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:37:11 PM): scary
LeonClaus (7:38:07 PM): We're here, sitting about, making calls, seeing if we can get a tow truck, people staring at us while they pass the intersection. Stuck there for about two hours, expecting a tow, when my dad shows up moments after asking me to check the belt. This belt was worn so thin it was a fuckin' shoelace when it finally snapped.
LeonClaus (7:38:56 PM): So we get it all fixed up after hours sitting, eating up a whole lane and turning lane, no body damage, helping my dad replace this belt and carving the old one out of the radiator. And that's when we had the scary realization.
LeonClaus (7:39:09 PM): That was the last intersection before leaving Wilsonville into the countryside.
LeonClaus (7:39:37 PM): The roads from Wilsonville to Newberg are filled with more S curves and U tight corners on the side of the hills than any other in all of the Willamete valley.
LeonClaus (7:39:55 PM): If that belt snapped 2 minutes later, you know where I'd be?
LeonClaus (7:39:56 PM): Dead.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:40:17 PM): very scary
LeonClaus (7:40:34 PM): So we get home, I'm expecting the PSU to not work. It'll just be our luck right?
LeonClaus (7:41:05 PM): I fight with the processor's outlet, get everything barely into the motherboard. I'm freaking out when I finally plug in the computer, nothing was happening...
LeonClaus (7:41:09 PM): WHY WASNT ANYTHING HAPPENING
LeonClaus (7:41:14 PM): then I took a deep... deep breath.
LeonClaus (7:41:21 PM): Stood there until all I could hear was my heartbeat.
LeonClaus (7:41:26 PM): Then I pressed the power button.
LeonClaus (7:41:28 PM): And it came on.
LeonClaus (7:42:22 PM): I rushed to get everything plugged in, to test everything out. On the first plug in, the processor DEFFINATELY was lacking. My start up is heavy. About 4 im programs, 2 nagwares made into the hardware, and internet connections for about all of them
LeonClaus (7:42:43 PM): I thought "Oh great, this PSU's going to make my GOLIATH a MONSTER"
LeonClaus (7:42:52 PM): My keyboard didn't work either.
LeonClaus (7:43:13 PM): I restarted, and obviously it all works. The start up this time was a bit better, since I had internet connected before the start up, but man IDK.
LeonClaus (7:43:43 PM): My old PSU, after looking it up, was a 300 watt, and this is a 500 watt. But with how the comp starts up, and how long it takes to start up Firefox, I dont know man...
LeonClaus (7:44:03 PM): I think GOLIATH has finally started to show she's getting battle scars.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:44:09 PM): it could be pumping more power then your can take.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:44:31 PM): or, when the old one fiied, it did minor (can still work) damnage to something
LeonClaus (7:44:50 PM): Probably the processor, IDK, I can get online that's what matters to me right now.
LeonClaus (7:44:56 PM): But... That's my story.
LeonClaus (7:45:01 PM): I could have died today.
LeonClaus (7:45:10 PM): But I was blessed, in a way that appeared to be bad luck.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:45:15 PM): it sounds like quite a adventure.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:45:47 PM): burno peed on the tech guy who installed everything..he got to excited
LeonClaus (7:46:02 PM): Pff. Yeah. Now I'm sitting here with a sore back, smelling of car, dust, sweat, blood, and tears, starvin' my ass off, fucking blood pumpin in excitement.
LeonClaus (7:46:06 PM): That sounds hilarious.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:16:01 PM): welcome back?
LeonClaus (7:16:05 PM): Let's start from the begining.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:16:21 PM): k
LeonClaus (7:17:10 PM): Yesterday, I finally became fed up with my enviroment. I was tired of being the passenger into how people treated my room. And yes, I don't pay rent, I don't really offer too much back, but it's not as if I don't want to help in any way I can, because I do. But that isn't what matters here.
LeonClaus (7:18:25 PM): I finally tore into my room yesterday at about 9 aM, taking garbage out, rearranging shit, and just generally moving things around to START making a difference. At 11AM a family friend, Andy, the son of my fathers late-best friend Tom, showed up at our doorstep needing a place to stay thanks to being evicted from his appartment. His family lives in texas, he's unemployed, ect ect.
LeonClaus (7:20:02 PM): So, then everyone began to help, assuming that Andy needed the better half of my room to crash. We decided Glenn gets to share my room, as I know glenn much better anyway. I cleaned out ALL of the garbage/toys/dead things out of my brother's closet that he'd never touched in 13 years, and just generally really made a difference in the room. Finally, when I had changed all I could, my mother, Glenn and I decided we'd go to walmart to purchase what we would need for the new space. And look for a desk for me, as the dresser thing wasn't cutting it.
LeonClaus (7:21:28 PM): We went to walmart, bought groceries, along with a cot and inflatible matress for Glenn, a 70$ Desk/Cupboard/Mini table combo for me, with a chair mat so I dont have to run ruts into the barren wood floor anymore, a new trashcan, an extension cord/splitter, and a pillow.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:21:49 PM): yay
LeonClaus (7:21:54 PM): We come home, with a 5'x2' block box I had to carry alone practically up three flights of stairs
LeonClaus (7:22:28 PM): It took me, with some handy-man help from Andy (locating screws/tools/parts of the desk), 3 hours to put it together, with only one true error--
LeonClaus (7:22:59 PM): The back piece of wood to hold the cardboard finish to the back was put on upside down. So it's not 100% bolted to my desk, but that doesn't matter.
LeonClaus (7:23:35 PM): I also fucked up the placement of the right/left sides of the keyboard shelf drawer things, and screwed up a doorway hinge/washer about 12 times.
LeonClaus (7:23:52 PM): I attempted to put together the other pieces of furniture, but couldn't.
LeonClaus (7:24:30 PM): I set up my computer on my newly made desk and attempted to make it work, after dusting it off. After my GOING AWAY FOREVER status update.
LeonClaus (7:24:56 PM): Something burst in my old PSU, and it refused to power my computer any more. It recieved power, but did nothing to disperse it to my computer.
LeonClaus (7:25:35 PM): After 2 hours of research I finally couldn't stay up anymore. Out of outrage and the heavy emotional place I've been in the past few days, I needed sleep. It was 2 am in the morning.
LeonClaus (7:26:03 PM): Waking up at about 1pm, I got up and fiddled with my computer for 1-2 hours, before contacting anyone I could on my phone/glenn's laptop to get any information I could.
LeonClaus (7:26:43 PM): Amber convinced me it had to be the PSU, and I thought I'd be fucked for a few days, forced to eat up my entire budget and then some to get a replacement part on newegg or something.
LeonClaus (7:26:58 PM): She told me to go to any store but Best Buy, and they should stock relatively cheap, effective PSU's.
LeonClaus (7:28:27 PM): I called all the local shops, and specialty electronic stores, no one stocked any. Andy wanted to help, so I asked him if he'd be willing to drive me up to Wilsonville, a 20-30 minute drive, to Fry's Home Electronic store. The best electronic store in all of Oregon. You need it? It's there.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:28:47 PM): Frys is like god
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:28:52 PM): we have frys here too
LeonClaus (7:29:15 PM): My mother offered to pay for the PSU, but I told her it would be another 50-70$, and after the desk, I couldn't really ask for that. She did offer me a 20$ to buy more canned air for dusting.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:30:25 PM): you keep talking, I'll be right back cause I gotta pee
LeonClaus (7:30:26 PM): Now, on the way to Fry's, I get there and find a 500 watt PSU for 45.99. At the time I thought my computer's old PSU was 550 watt, apparently HP Pavilion a6650f PSU's are 300watt, according to the internet. But anyway, it was a good purchase.
LeonClaus (7:32:53 PM): So, I wont be buying anything fun or dandy the rest of the month, but being able to get on my computer is all I ask for. At the store, btw, I was doing a constant stomach clenching dance, after having eaten nothing but gut-wrenching Jack 'n the Box breakfast meal, after a miscommunication with this spacey retarded cashier on the JntB off the highway. Tl;dr I wanted to fall to my knees and spew from all ends. With pain, cold sweats rising up from my toes, and a constant lack of balance. After finding a place to pee (I had to use an employee bathroom), I at least felt more composed to consult someone without vomitting on them and doing a weird ass wiggle dance.
LeonClaus (7:33:31 PM): I buy the thing, come out of Fry's, we get in Andy's truck and get ready to go. Here I am thinking I'm going to barf all over everything, but once we got the truck going I felt much better.
LeonClaus (7:33:49 PM): So we're coming out of Wilsonville, on the country-side roads, when, suddenly Andy starts freaking out.
LeonClaus (7:34:09 PM): His engine heat flares up, his power light turns on, and he tried to SWERVE his wheel, the car was NOT responding.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:34:50 PM): antifreeze leak
LeonClaus (7:35:01 PM): He's freaking out. This fucking school-distract place has NO median to pull off to, there's no clear spot in place, and we're about to catch fire. I tell him, grab the wheel and drag that fucker down to the right, and we fucking. We were the luckiest fuckers ever.
LeonClaus (7:35:50 PM): The kids were coming home from school, but there was no one in that spot, our breaks locked up, and we drove up until our fender hit the light post, eating up the corner of an intersection, with just barely enough room to get by us.
LeonClaus (7:36:19 PM): I get out, engine's burning, and leiu and behold, antifreeze -pouring- out of the car. I THOUGHT it was a leak... But no, it gets so much better.
LeonClaus (7:36:27 PM): It was the collant belt.
LeonClaus (7:36:53 PM): It snapped, got caught AROUND the radiator's fan and grill, and the antifreeze was BOILING out of the tank.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:37:11 PM): scary
LeonClaus (7:38:07 PM): We're here, sitting about, making calls, seeing if we can get a tow truck, people staring at us while they pass the intersection. Stuck there for about two hours, expecting a tow, when my dad shows up moments after asking me to check the belt. This belt was worn so thin it was a fuckin' shoelace when it finally snapped.
LeonClaus (7:38:56 PM): So we get it all fixed up after hours sitting, eating up a whole lane and turning lane, no body damage, helping my dad replace this belt and carving the old one out of the radiator. And that's when we had the scary realization.
LeonClaus (7:39:09 PM): That was the last intersection before leaving Wilsonville into the countryside.
LeonClaus (7:39:37 PM): The roads from Wilsonville to Newberg are filled with more S curves and U tight corners on the side of the hills than any other in all of the Willamete valley.
LeonClaus (7:39:55 PM): If that belt snapped 2 minutes later, you know where I'd be?
LeonClaus (7:39:56 PM): Dead.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:40:17 PM): very scary
LeonClaus (7:40:34 PM): So we get home, I'm expecting the PSU to not work. It'll just be our luck right?
LeonClaus (7:41:05 PM): I fight with the processor's outlet, get everything barely into the motherboard. I'm freaking out when I finally plug in the computer, nothing was happening...
LeonClaus (7:41:09 PM): WHY WASNT ANYTHING HAPPENING
LeonClaus (7:41:14 PM): then I took a deep... deep breath.
LeonClaus (7:41:21 PM): Stood there until all I could hear was my heartbeat.
LeonClaus (7:41:26 PM): Then I pressed the power button.
LeonClaus (7:41:28 PM): And it came on.
LeonClaus (7:42:22 PM): I rushed to get everything plugged in, to test everything out. On the first plug in, the processor DEFFINATELY was lacking. My start up is heavy. About 4 im programs, 2 nagwares made into the hardware, and internet connections for about all of them
LeonClaus (7:42:43 PM): I thought "Oh great, this PSU's going to make my GOLIATH a MONSTER"
LeonClaus (7:42:52 PM): My keyboard didn't work either.
LeonClaus (7:43:13 PM): I restarted, and obviously it all works. The start up this time was a bit better, since I had internet connected before the start up, but man IDK.
LeonClaus (7:43:43 PM): My old PSU, after looking it up, was a 300 watt, and this is a 500 watt. But with how the comp starts up, and how long it takes to start up Firefox, I dont know man...
LeonClaus (7:44:03 PM): I think GOLIATH has finally started to show she's getting battle scars.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:44:09 PM): it could be pumping more power then your can take.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:44:31 PM): or, when the old one fiied, it did minor (can still work) damnage to something
LeonClaus (7:44:50 PM): Probably the processor, IDK, I can get online that's what matters to me right now.
LeonClaus (7:44:56 PM): But... That's my story.
LeonClaus (7:45:01 PM): I could have died today.
LeonClaus (7:45:10 PM): But I was blessed, in a way that appeared to be bad luck.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:45:15 PM): it sounds like quite a adventure.
DRAGOONQUEEN180 (7:45:47 PM): burno peed on the tech guy who installed everything..he got to excited
LeonClaus (7:46:02 PM): Pff. Yeah. Now I'm sitting here with a sore back, smelling of car, dust, sweat, blood, and tears, starvin' my ass off, fucking blood pumpin in excitement.
LeonClaus (7:46:06 PM): That sounds hilarious.
/just had his serpentine belt replaced and now it seems like his transmission is out, during the week he has to drive places every day of the week.
godluck or something
And I had a rental that just a leak, but it did the same sorta stereotypical steam-out thing. No fun XD