RSSWe are keeping the house! Computer Explodes!
Aug 14
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Hey readers!
As I’m sure you can tell from the title, things have done a complete 180°. After spending much of yesterday at a loss for what to do, my prayers were answered. The new owners of the house called my mother after the auction and said that they had won. My mom was very upset at the time and said that they had been bidding against my grandparents who were trying to win the house back for us. The new owner of the house, who’s name I’m not sure of (I’m horrible with names), said she would call my mom back the next day. Five minutes later, she called back and said that they would sell the house to my grandparents for what they paid for it. My grandparents jumped on the offer since we were out of other options, or at least out of options as far as my mom was concerned.
When I heard the news, you couldn’t cut the smile off my face. Faith and prayer really do work! I don’t think I could have asked for a better resolution to this. That said, I ended up having to replace the pads in the swamp cooler in the dark last night and now my back is out of place and will be needing a trip to the chiropractor.
As if yesterday wasnt enough of a roller coaster as it is, at around 3pm, my computer exploded. I was at work when I recieved a call from my mother in a panic because she heard an explosion in my room followed by all kinds of bad smelling smoke. Having computer parts burn up before, I was certain that is what it was. I was just hoping it was her computer and not mine. No such luck. I threw down everything I was doing, locked the door, and proceeded to break all the speed limits trying to get home. I told her not to call the fire department unless she started to see flames as I didn’t want them blasting my computer with water.
As soon as I got in the house, I could smell that a computer part of some kind had gone up in smoke. I ran into my room and began sniffing around to figure out where the smell was coming from. With her computer being five years or more old, I sniffed that figuring that something went wrong in it as it has burned up two video cards in the past. When I realized it wasn’t hers, I went over to my computer and started sniffing but didn’t really smell much there either. After blowing out some dust, I thought to smell the power supply. That is what had gone bad. Once I determined that, I got the computer out of the house since the smoke was making my mom’s breathing problems worse. After work, I went shopping around for a new power supply, but found nothing. I figured I would just end up going to Colorado Springs to get one like I often do for parts I need immediately. Instead, around 10pm last night I decided to just have one overnighted from Newegg. I figure having one by Friday is good enough as I have my laptop that I can use until then. I lack my 2TB of media, but that is ok as long as I have access to services like Hulu.
It ended up being a far more eventful day than I ever care to have again, outside of winning the lotto of course.
-pcnerd37
