The Light at the end of the Tunnel
And the ground beneath your feet’s reaction to it
Well after an exhileratingly horrible couple of days before the weekend I have managed to remove all assignments in my way with the exception of two. Normally this would be something to be happy about, except for the fact that both these pieces of work (although another word could equally well be substituted for work) are about three weeks overdue.
Combine this with the fact that they are about %10 each, and you have something that is too big to ignore and too small to really want to spend time on. Also consider that the work will take hours upon hours of painstaking analysis and you can begin to see why this is not such a wonderful situation. But I will somehow get them done, somehow.
As well as this exciting plethora of overdue work I have recently taken my computer into the shop whence the stupid IDE expansion card came to convince them that their card sucks. They took one look at it, and pronounced it fixed, to my great surprise and happiness. Then I took one look at their proof (they showed me that my computer now registered 3 CD devices and a zip drive), and realised that this particular bunch of retailers were, (as we say in academic terms), completely fucking stupid.
There is a program, a wonderfully useful program, called Daemon Tools. Most people who need something like it know about it. As I am sure you have already guessed, oh intelligent reader, this program gives you a thing called a virtual drive. Why is it useful? Apart from copying DVDs or CDs raw onto your harddrive to play at a later date in the virtual drive, it also allows you to check if an image you are about to burn works. Sure enough, the clever-clogged people at this store had mistaken my virtual drive for my DVD burner.
So, I did the only thing possible, I quietly disabled the virtual drive in front of them and watched their looks of satisfaction drown in a tidal wave of incomprehension. I think it is time, yet again, to find a new computer store.