It was only a few days ago that I traipsed lightly on the prize-winning grass of Good Karma. Good Karma! My machines work! All is well with the world! La la la! I can't possibly foresee the hand of Irony in this situation!
So, just to make sure I felt the insult, Irony went to bat and gave my computer what shall henceforth be refered to as The Smackdown. Not only did I turn on my computer to a blank screen, but it turns out the part I need is no longer manufactured. Of course Fry's Electronics, Best Buy, and Comp USA don't carry the part. But surely The Mac Store carries it! Oh wait. I forgot. This is Ye Olde Smackdown, so NATURALLY Mac no longer carries the part - nor can they order it. Nor is it cheap. Nor can they guarantee this part will fix the problem. The only thing I can say for certain is that I no longer have access to my email, website, or other projects. I have to do everything on Kevin's machine, which I guarantee you I'm about to break any second now.
And the best part? (Oh, this is SO the best part...) I also boldly bragged that we figured out how to record Lost on to our DVD-R. And we did. What we geniuses did not factor in was that tricky Daylight Savings Time. So, prior to The Smackdown, we were downloading the episode and going through a battery of QuickTime related nightmares in order to watch it. (QuickTime doesn't really work on my computer anymore, since the iTunes Incident of 2005.) So, we weren't able to watch the show until late yesterday. If you're doing the math, that's four days of downloading and using foul language to express our gross displeasure. Four days. Which is more than half of a week. Which is entirely too much time to care about a television show. Which is probably not something I should mention if I want you to think I'm cool. Which I do. Or maybe I don't. I like to keep you guessing.
So, here is the moral of the story: Don't write about good things happening to you in your blog. And especially don't brag about your small victories. If you do, you risk a change in Karma, incur the wrath of Irony, wrack up new debts, waste four days trying to download codecs and off-brand video players, and invent new swear words. Oh, yeah. And feel like a total tool.
Update (April 12): The board we ordered didn't work. So, we took the machine into our local Mac fix-it shop and they determined that it's the processor. SHOCKER. It's only the most expensive, vital part of the computer. Rad.
Quicktime still doesn't work? What versions of Quicktime, Pro Tools, and OSX are you running?
Posted by: Paul | on April 10, 2006 12:13 PM