My fellow IT department collegue told me to start coming in for 10 o'clock.

I'm supposed to start work 10 o'clock..

It seems I tend to get in 5-10 minutes late and "people" are noticing [even though only 3 other people are in at that time, not even the manager gets in before me].

I don't feel it justifiable to sacrifice one or two of my nightly enjoyment hours for this job. Strange as it sounds I think I could justify it if I were doing physical work - but no I sit in front of a monitor for 8 hours.

I'm being selfish in ways I know...

I'll just have to push myself from a Nayuki-style walking-while-not-there state quicker somehow before I get properly told off or I crack my head open in the shower >_>

Hmm. Job satisfaction levels seem to be decreasing.

No, sorry to disappoint, but I haven't been by a thunderbolt.

But somewhere nearby did get struck around 8:15am and scared the crap out of my parents.. who were up... me and my sister got woken up - disturbingly unwelcome >_>

More to the point, the power was gone, it was just the fuse so that was good, then around 9am when I was up - I noticed the router was fudgeed. It was off, and wouldn't come back on.

What does this mean?

Sensei has no internet at home till he gets a replacement router.

I am not amused

Sure, disappointing on [OMITTED]'s part.

Basically, my Dad is making me pay the Telephone-Internet bill so I had to cancel my Bayonetta pre-order cause I won't have enough money.

I have it preordered for the March release.

What I am wondering though... do I get the Odin & Shiva FFXIII Shirts?

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10105989

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10105996

And even sooner (January), the FFXIII OST (LE)?

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=SQEX-10178

I've played some of the older ones, completed VIII & X, played X-2, done a lot of XII but moved so I can never complete it

And I didn't like IX at all..

One thing for sure though, I love the look of this game, and knowing it'll be a linear-based game, which reminds me of FFX, means there will be no time for breathing so... while I'm certainly not the biggest FF player... I'm certainly excited for this one ^_^

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Critical startup failure.

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So, about 3am last night I put the laptop to Sleep, and it slept till about 10am when my Sister woke it up.

It suffered an IRQ-Type BSOD almost instantly.

I was in bed, see, and did not want to be disturbed, even if I found out my sister was going into the deep depths of Advanced Startup Repair modes without any foreknowledge of how to use it.

She tried the automated repair system, which was her last stab, and a stab I tried later, and it couldn't detect anything particularly wrong, it was booting, and failing, no bsod it would just go "Starting Windows" for a few seconds then auto-reboot.

Heres where I wasn't particularly amused.

I scheduled the laptop to make System Restore points every day at around 2-3am.

Or so I thought.

It said there were no points available.

"FUCK YOU COMPUTER!"

The finale was use the Windows Boot Manager to do a Safe Mode boot.

It only got through about have a dozen files (core system files as far as I could tell) before it flashed blue and died.

fudgeed.

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I'm able to tell you of my tale because I have dual partitions. I'm on my factory Windows Vista Home Premium in Spanish now. (It only reminds me how I hate vista with a vengence)

I'm copying over the installation image for 7 onto my Sandisk Cruzer specifically for system installations and I'm gonna try do a repair install to get back on track.

Windows is as reliable as its ever been.