Up, Down and All Around

Double Whammy

Was in the middle of a really exciting campaign of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom when the power suddenly went out earlier tonight. Aaargggh! And just to make Murphy happy, it had to be one of those times when I had not bothered to save the game at all anytime during the three hours or so that I'd been playing the campaign. Double Aaargggh!!

As if all that wasn't bad enough... when the power finally came back, my monitor wouldn't turn on!! The power indicator doesn't even light up. And to think I had, as a precaution, unplugged both the monitor and the CPU right after the power died because I was afraid of a big surge when the power came back.

* Sigh! *

Thankfully, my dad had just upgraded to a new monitor a couple of months ago, so his old one is still in working condition, and packed in its original box in storage. Took me a while to unearth the box, and even though it was already 2am, I simply couldn't wait and just had to go look for it right away. Goes to show how much of a 'net junkie I am, I guess.

So here I am, back up and running again after almost three hours of down time. And now I'm remembering why my dad had wanted to upgrade his monitor in the first place! hahaha! It's not the best possible screen to be using, but given the circumstances, I'm not going to complain too loudly. LOL.

The saving grace: my PC itself seems to be working fine. I prefer a busted monitor to a busted CPU any day! Still, I wish Meralco would get its act together and avoid these power trips completely.

I hope only my monitor's power thingy is damaged and that it can still be repaired. * fingers crossed *

Tags: Personal Computing

Posted by CF at 2:25 AM