Cursed
August 08, 2008
I have been having the worst of luck recently when it comes to electronics I own.
The giant storm that squished Kansai a week ago destroyed my laptop. I actually opened it up and cleaned out its innards and it worked that night. I thought it was the luckiest thing to have it working again. Then, I shut it down and it wouldn’t restart again. I believe something on the motherboard is fried, perhaps maybe even the CMOS battery. I took the battery around town searching for a replacement but because Dell is such a bitch company, they did not use standard CMOS batteries and concocted something of their own design. I can’t even test out this theory and my laptop is a big ugly decoration right now.
The storm also took out my IP phone. It turns on but will begin to start ringing on its own accord almost immediately. There’s no tone neither. Yet another thing to buy/fix.
The remote control for our fan is also dead. No big deal. I never found a remote control for a fan to be a big necessity – I can still get my fat ass up and walk over there to turn it on or off. Surprisingly, the television remote works fine even though it was sitting in the same pond of water as the fan remote.
Then, two days ago, as the third storm of the month was just about to set Osaka awash, I wanted to take some pictures of the beautiful rain clouds forming outside and perhaps even get lucky and catch a lightning strike. I turn on my trusty digital camera only to be greeted by a white screen on the LCD. No matter what I did, the LCD remained white. Apparently Fujifilm installed a faulty light sensor on it as I wasn’t the only one with this problem. What I’m wondering though is why after five years of perfect operation did the stupid camera malfunction now?
I am so glad I don’t have a pacemaker because with this luck it would start pumping blood out of my ass. Anyway now I have a queue of things to repair and replace. Thanks karma, you vengeful bitch.
