Well, there's a smidge of backstory for my journal title, so sit down kiddies, for this is a tale that isn't worth being made into a deviation, yet a tale all the same.

So... my old XP computer, had it for about a year, right? Desktop, it was, which I affectionately called 'the monster' because of the sheer amount of power behind it. You might also be wondering why I'm referring to the monster in the past sense.

Earlier today, my monster 'died' so to speak.

People who talk to me on MSN or Steam will know I've been complaining about the fact my XP has been freezing so much. Freezing, as in that it sorta hangs a bit, rendering me unable to do anything at all, before it gets back to what it's doing. These freezes have been getting progressively worse, first for about 20 seconds, now lasting anywhere from five minutes to a half hour. Exaggeratively I'd say two hours, but what I said before was more accurate.

And these freezes would be a pattern, of sorts. First it starts with a program. Then it sorta seeps onto the desktop so I can't use anything there. Then it gets into the taskbar and GUI which makes it so everything is, literally, stuck. And finally, in the worst case, the screen goes white and my cursor, which is the only movable thing, won't even move.

So, my monster didn't die. But I was thinking "fuck it if I'm gonna wait three hours for this thing to unfreeze", and really, by this point, it probably would be three hours. So I unhooked it and set it in the corner to think about what it's done.

How am I working, you ask? I'm on my Vista laptop, the very same I had before the monster.

"But Kit, what about your old projects?" Well, I managed to salvage some files from the monster, that being chat convo records, Game Maker files, my favorite art pieces, and things I've written (tho a lot of good that does since I saved them in Word 2007 format and my Vista uses 2001).

The monster isn't dead, really, but it may as well be for all the good it'll do now. I just hope my Vista will be a good substitute, or, in the worst case, my main computer.

Thanks for reading.
-Kit