... and by funny I of course mean horrible and frustrating beyond all belief. 8D

My computer crashed.

My computer that I had only had for like... less than 6 months.

And it was completely my fault.

The unfortunate series of events unfold as follows:

My computer was running pretty shittily - really slow and doing stupid things, so I assumed I'd gotten a virus, not unusual, but annoying since I have Norton on the computer.

So I called my dad and asked him what Anti-Malware program he uses on the computers in his office and found what LOOKED like the right thing, paid 50 bucks and downloaded it.

It was a huge fucking virus.

Thank GOD I can still access my document files, or this would be even worse than it is, but as is - I couldn't access my Control Panel, couldn't use my printer, couldn't connect to the internet....

So I took it into Future Shop, and they took one look at it and were like "We will have to format it and it will take 1-2 weeks." I work from home, so I can NOT afford to lose my computer for that long, and so I started looking at the new ones there.

I managed to get $1300 worth of financing and am now the proud owner of a Macbook Pro, and $1300 worth of debt. Unfortunately I no longer have Photoshop, Word, or any of my programs that I loved and cherished. Thankfully, I am a compulsive pack-rat and DID have all the mac versions of all the drivers for my printer, scanner and tablet on hand, or else things would have gotten REALLY ugly.

so the moral of the story?

FUCK MICROSOFT.

And they all lived happily ever after

The End.