Autumn trees shed their leaves to live again

As I walked home one October afternoon, I couldn't help but notice the beautiful sunset. In a way, it's a day slowly but surely leaving. The light fades, and there is nothing you can do no matter how hard you try, you can't outrun the sun. October skies represents a life looking for more. They show that sometimes, a fleeting sunset swiftly leaving the horizon can be beautiful. That leaving can both be painful and hopeful, bitter and sweet. There is hope, and a new dawn awaits after the sun sets, and only after the sun sets. The mistakes and misery of yesterday are washed away by the brilliant sunlight. I never really did catch the sunset or sunrise. But I know, while it lasts, sunset is beautiful.

Well it's been ages since I've changed my blogskin. I felt that it was time for a change from the green and blue themes, so here's a nice orange - red one with a magnificent photo of the sunset. For your info, most of my blogskins are either made by myself, or in this case, taken off some obsolete and semi-functional blogskin, heavily modified and used as my own. Oh by the way, I was upset at the fact that embedded background music isn't compatible with both IE and firefox, so I made my own flash music player. It's pretty basic stuff, but it works, and on both browsers too (didn't test with opera and safari though, but it should work like any other flash movie).

Anyway, lots of stuff has been happening, and I guess it's good to pen it down once in a while. For one, it's already october. Time really flies, in just over two months this year will be over.

This week itself has been pretty crazy. Sunday was good, went for lunch with sam and hoho just like the old times, back in ACE. Like the fun we had crapping and telling lousy jokes. No LAN, netspiel had long closed already. Gigantic burgers at Carl's JR and a really fun game of pool. This was my second time playing pool but I think I picked it up pretty fast, considering I even scored a double kill shot. Yep, the cue ball hitting two separate balls simultaneously into two different holes. I'm either that good or that lucky. Although I did pocket the cue ball a few times.

Well yesterday wasn't all that good. Maybe I was really sleep deprived, I kept making minor mistakes (such as repeated mistyping, tripping over something). What was really annoying was that I accidentally closed an important browser window and I have no idea what was in it (up to now, i still don't know). I do know that it was relatively important (if not I wouldn't have left it open.) I have a habit of leaving many windows (maybe over 10) open at once so I can multitask. It was a lousy mistake, and one just waiting to happen, I wanted to check my logoff screen and pressed alt-f4, but the focus was set to a browser window and poof, it closed. Got me really pissed as I searched through my history pages to no avail, trying to locate the window. Why doesn't firefox add a recently closed windows function. I would have gladly paid $2 to get that closed window back. Hah.

Another even worse thing. My sister was trying to install the Sims 2 on my mother's laptop. Well apparently there was a problem with the 3D accelerator, and the program wasn't working. She asked me to help, and try to help I did. And then, oh, I foolishly disabled the display adapter for the graphics card, thinking it might help in some way (actually, a reason why I can solve PC problems is that I am more persistent in finding solutions to such problems compared to many people, and that I try solutions at a much faster rate. Of course, IT skills also come in handy. Very handy. But that's besides the point.) Anyway, a little popup demanding a restart, a few mouse clicks and a minute later, I was stuck with a PC that showed nothing on the screen. Nothing. Just the BIOS loader, the splash logo from the boot screen and that's it. Blank screen. VGA mode doesn't work, Last good settings doesn't work and Safe mode freezes up. Oh what to do? Tried and tried various solutions, to the point of even trying blind keypresses, remote administration. Nothing worked. Windows narrator was immensely helpful, but the display adapters in the device manager had already mysteriously disappeared.

So my dad's going to try get his office tech support to help fix it (hah, I know you're rolling on the floor laughing now, like roflmao tech support lol). Anyway, if it doesn't work then I really don't know what to do.

P.S. For anyone who faced a similar problem and fixed it, please help me.

Well that's about it.

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