Redefining
So I can’t REALLY complain about Vaio II losing his life. I mean, the dude lasted through the damp, dark hellhole that was Van Land for two years, plus being carted around North America a whole bunch of times.
Also, I saved about 98% of the stuff I had on him because his hard drive was too small for all my crap and I’d moved everything to an external a few months ago. So my stories, my pics, my music, my internet nonsense [AND MY BLOGS]…all saved.
So I really can’t complain.
But I’m going to anyway, because one of the things I DID lose was my playcounts for my songs. Which is a big deal for me, because I very often sort my songs by playcount and pretty much had a whole hierarchy going on where I defined my “top 50” songs by playcount.
Well, that’s all gone now, so next comes the arduous task of redefining my favorite songs.
That’s hard for me.
But exciting, too. I think with the nearly three years of downloading a new song every day, my musical tastes have evolved a bit. So things that were on my “favorites” playlist from before that may just have been on there due to past playcounts—even though I haven’t played them in months—have all been removed. Time to start anew!
Haha, I know none of you care, but this is pretty much the most exciting non-school-related thing to happen since September.
Happy birthday.
Vaio III is here!
He’s 750 GB. He’s got a back-lit keyboard. He’s compact and cool.
WOO!
I’mma go set him up.
I’m mourning
Bad news, all.
Vaio II is no more.
His hard drive had a serious mental breakdown, so I took him in to see if someone could fix him up. Nope.
Thank god for external hard drives, eh?
Big Compy’s still up and running, so I’m not totally helpless and curled up crying on the floor due to lack of internet.
But I’m sad. Vaio II was family.
Edit: His successor, Vaio III, has been purchased. He looks like this.
My new best friend
Vaio II has arrived.
And Vaio II looks GREAT. He’s so quiet! He can run on battery! He has FREE HARD DRIVE SPACE!!
Yay.
Vaio on life support!
So…uh…
Vaio’s screen kinda bit it. I was sitting there listening to music and moved the screen to adjust its tilt, and it instantly cracked and spider-webbed from the point of contact. So I now can see nothing but this beautiful spider web pattern on the main screen, and have an external Dell (ewww!) monitor hooked up so I can actually use it.
So yeah. Vaio’s on monitor dialysis. Other than that (and its lack of hard drive space and 400 db fan), it works fine still. But I guess I can’t really use it as a laptop if I have to hook it to an external monitor (even though it was already tethered via power supply and internet).

Man, Sony makes some durable computers.
