Not exactly Armageddon..

Yesterday,I experienced what we in the Geekosphere refer to as a "Catastrophic system failure"!
That's the actual technical term...Catastrophic.
As if Al Qaeda blew in on Hurricane Katrina,smuggling a mega-tsunami across the border in the heels of their air-Jordan's...And yet,that's exactly how it feels!
Is that shallow and self-centered of me?
Fine then.

Having my computer suddenly flash the blue screen of death,and blip off into oblivion is not necessarily tragic.Normally a simple re-boot solves the problem.
Every once in while however,no amount of wheedling and cajoling,(cursing..begging...and finally, crying),will breath life into my hard drive..umm..You know what I mean...Oh hell with it.

Comes now,the Viagra of computer repair,..the format.

Wipe everything out,and start over.A process I've described in great detail before,what with the tendency I have to push my laptop to the limit without regard to it's state of health.
Anywhiz..This is about me.

The greatest torture in this process is the whole "Windows Update" ordeal.
My installation software is two years old,and Microsoft likes to produce Three updates an hour,seven days a week.Consequently,there are 432,784 updates to download.(UPdates to DOWNload?..no wonder I'm dizzy)..
That shit slows my computer down to a snail's pace,so I'm taking this opportunity between "ready to installs" to post,because it's too hard to surf Bloggertown while that green hard drive indicator light is strobing fast enough to give someone a seizure.

432,784 updates to install..Right now,I'm on number 23.