Rest In Peace, dear friend...

I had to say goodbye to a good friend this weekend... This friend has been with me for a while, proving her friendship by supporting me when i was overseas... at times, i felt like she was the only friend i had...

but she was sick... some rare disease and they i knew that it could be anytime when she would finally pass, leaving me heartbroken and alone...
and saturday night it happened...

my laptop died... it's been threatening a hard drive failure... and the cd drive didn't work anymore... and it was getting slow... but saturday, something went crazy... and it took me 20 minutes to try and restart it... then a few error messages... then a crazy screen... then the error message that i need to install a windows cd because a file is corrupt or missing...

i don't have windows cds, because someone put it on my computer for me... and before the offers roll in, remember, my cd drive doesn't work... so i don't really have a way of getting the file onto my computer... i tried attaching the external hard drive i have to it, hoping it would be like life support... but it didn't work...
so, even though the hard drive didn't completely crash, my computer is completely non-usable... hopefully i'll be able to get a new computer soon... until then, i will mourn the loss of my dear friend...