Om nom nom.

On the brightest of bright sides, I have some Cinnamon Vanilla Créme creamer by CoffeeMate.  It says it's lactose-free, even.  I generally can't stand flavoured coffee, because nine times out of ten it's either hazelnut or french vanilla, and ew ew ew.  However, this is different, because one of the primary ingredients is crack.

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You know what's weird?

- I'm going to make an eye exam appointment.  I think I want glasses; give my eyes some time to rest.

- I want to go get a &%*$ haircut, and be done with this lazy longhaired nonsense.  Others have their reasons for having long hair, I'm sure; for me, it's sheer laziness.  I plan on getting it cut sort-of short (as in, still enough to be curly, I suppose).

- I'm studying, haphazardly, for my OR driving license.  (I got 8 out of 10 on the sample test.)  Getting my license means calling MA to unsuspend my license (it was due to unpaid this'n'thats).

- I got dentistry done, and now that it's the new year, I plan on getting more done.  Basic cleaning and suchlike, plus hell, maybe I'll get my lower wisdom teeth out at some point.  My bottom teeth are crooked, which makes it a righteous bitch to floss.

- I'm thinking of saving up to see... someone... to talk to them about how to get out from under debt.  I don't know what kind of someone that would be, but they'd have to both help with budgeting/investing/whatevs and help with dealing with the credit reporting agency folk stuff.  (I do not speak this stuff.)

This is officially Weird Shit.

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1. Boot up computer.
2. See this message and ignore it:
  Hit <DEL> if you want to run SETUP
3. See this:
  Pri Master HDD Error
  Run SETUP
  Hit F1 to resume.
4. Hit F1 - screen blanks and this displays, as usual:
  Scanning option ROMs
5. Woo:
  Boot failure in drive A

And what's this about?

"This issue can occur if your BIOS is damaged."

Oh.  Well.  Um.  Well, that might explain the previous unexpected system reboot.

How the blind monkey balls did that happen??  And how do I fix it?  It's a Dell L500, and I want to say the BIOS version is A04, but lord only knows at this point.  Dell Dimension L500c, BIOS version A02.

If I can get it to boot up (since this has happened before, but I didn't get the error message that time), can I do anything from within Windows?