Night Before Big Day; Disaster Strikes

For those of you who don't know, I am going to be in Japan for the next two months. SURPRISE! I am going there to study Japanese to hopefully get a better grasp on the language. So tomorrow, which will be in 20 minutes, I will be flying out to start my quest.

Today was suppose to be nice and easy. Most of my packing was already done so all I had to do was settle my nerves by relaxing and watching a movie.

I received a phone call from my aunt wondering if I could help out my cousin with a small computer project he has for school. So having some free time I gladly went over taking some of my techy stuff just in case I felt it necessary to use.

Well push came to shove and I ended up using my lappy to try figure out how to help my little cousin. Not only do I fail miserably at fixing his problem, I also manage to crash my laptop in the process sending it into a deep spiral of blue screen death.

Uh oh.

They say that samurai consider their sword as an expansion to their body. If you take away their sword, it's as if cutting off a limb. ( Don't quote me on that, I'm getting my sources from Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai) I believe it's almost the same way for me with my computer. I don't think I could last two months in a strange place without it.

I frantically drive home knowing that my options are limited. I can't take it to a computer store, they'd take too long. I only have until before tomorrow. My tech friends are a bit to far away and I couldn't go see them anyways, I have my sister's birthday bash to go to in about an hour. (Happy Birthday Britt!!!) I'm going to have to man up and fix this myself.

With my lacking skills of reading overly long windows errors, I wasn't sure I could simply just repair the computer as if nothing happened. I'm going to have start from scratch. I'm going to have to completely wipe my computer and reinstall everything I had put on there before tomorrow. But first, birthday party! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!(Haha! She almost looks like she's disappointed with what she got!)

Party's over now. Back to business. Now instead of having one last night out with my friends,
talking about old times while relaxing in the hot tub, my night turned into this...
Me slaving away installing lots of different programs, moving files, banging head against keyboard, etc. So, 4 hard drives, 20 program installs, 3,000,000 + files, and some 3 hours later, I am finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I even took time to write this blog.

However, I see that it is now tomorrow and I have to be up in less then five hours. So hopefully tomorrow (today) will be a better day. I'll keep you posted.

-Blake
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