Wait--what happened?

Where did my blogging disappear to? Honestly, to my paranoia, haha.

I came back the other night, flipped on the lights in the living room and POP! The streak of blue told me that a bulb had burned out. Not a big problem; the fixture supported something like 6 or 8 so I went about the rest of my evening before discovering that the switch on the wall was no longer working. What the heck? I finally found the pull-cord to turn it off after e-mailing my girlfriend to let her know what happened. My crazy guess is that the POP! also popped the connection to the wall somehow. Of course, now I'm worried it's a fire hazard so it's staying off for the time being.

That same night, I'm sitting at my girlfriend's computer typing up the night's blog and suddenly her monitor starts flickering and getting vertical lines. Figures; I fried their lamp, now I've fried her computer, right? I shut it down and left it--perhaps it was the heat getting to the graphics card. The next day I turned it back on, everything looked good, started to finish up the blog entry... and a few minutes later I start to see flickering. !$#%@#$^ Sigh. So, I've pretty much left it off or asleep and not touched it since it seems that I am very anti-technology this visit and I don't want to break more of their stuff.

Well, I HAD to do my homework last night or I was going to be in deep sludge. My laptop has gone from insane overheating to now chain BSoDing--it's pretty much dead and I'm not going to push it because I don't want to fry my hard disks before getting my data off. So, I had to figure out what the problem was.

Using my powers of deduction (and the first lesson in PC Repair back in high school), I checked the SVGA cable's connection and, lo and behold, it was pretty much dangling to the wind at the monitor. Figures. I screwed it back in and now everything is working splendidly again.

I'm a moron. :)