Last night I left work early so that I could do some clothes and burn some CDs (so I can work longer, so I can buy more CDs rip and burn them, so I can work longer...). Before I could do that I had to install a HD on Windows XP. Now, there's a lot of bad things floating around about XP, but I've generally had very good luck with it. I didn't know, however, how much they monkeyed around with HD installation. So, when I couldn't get it to give the drive a partition letter and didn't know what else to do, I consulted XP's Help and Support.

There went two hours of my life that I would never get back.

Apparently, their help menu does not feel the need to distinguish between a HD that isn't working properly and a video card (or any other software that needs drivers). So I wasted ten minutes with stupid questions like:

Did you install any drivers for it?
Does the manufacturer have new drivers available?

NOTE TO SELF: The computer cannot hear you scream "NO! IT'S A HARDDRIVE, DAG NABBIT!!" even when you have a microphone.

I kept waiting for it to ask "Are you sure the monitor connection is secure?"

So I spent my one night off... working on computers.

October 2nd, you cannot come soon enough...