Something Epic

Now 99% positive that my Mad Dog External 16XDVD9 burner is *dead*. I currently have it hooked up to khristle's computer where I have once again flashed the drive with the absolute latest firmware, cracked open the housing and gave it a SERIOUS blow job (giggidy), knocking loose some 1/4-cup of dirt and lint from it's innards. We'll see if it's still dead after all of that.

But on the PLUS side, the Maintenance Dudes came by to fix our dead electrical outlet. But when they went to check the voltage, he outlet suddenly and miraculously now has GREAT AND MIGHTY CURRENT FLOWING FREELY!!! He checked and double-checked (it was our Maintenance Dude with The Neck... the one that looks like Ron Riggle for The Daily Show, so he knows what he's doing) and said it's working great! So I checked it out with multiple appliances, starting with the Food Processor...

Food processor is good.

Ice Shaver... Ice Shaver is good.

Coffee Maker... Coffe maker is good.

Then I decided to try our Magic Bullet. I had broken The Magic Bullet last week trying to make The Worlds Thickest Protein Shake. The Protein Shake won; the Magic Bullet lost. Tried it in multiple outlets in the apartment over the next few days wishing and pleading that it would somehow work in some other room (I can make you a Daquari, but I'll need to do it in The Crapper. Hope ya don't mind!), and it had been confirmed as 100% officially and completely BUSTED.

So back to regular continuity; I decided to try plugging The Magic Bullet in to the Miracle Outlet.

SAINTS BE PRAISED, THE MAGIC BULLET IS ALIVE!!!

Now of course the next logical step would be to plug the Dead DVD Burner in to the Miracle Outlet, right? I mean, right after we've tried plugging Grampa's corpse in for a while.

But I really think that some epic Toy-Story-Esque shenannigans were going on in our apartment over the last few days, involving The Evil Outlet slaying The Magical Bullet, and the quest that the Mad Dog External DVD Burner had to go through in order to stop Evil Outlet's plan for Total Apartmental Domination. In the end, I think that Mad Dog sacrificed himself so that the other appliances may live.

Just in case, I'm gonna hold on to the Mad Dog DVD Burner for a while and try plugging it in on Easter morning... just in case.

Sometimes a good blow just doesn't do it :(

Anybody got a used DVD burner thay'd like to part with cheap? WalMart has one for $33, seems like that's aout the cheapest I'm gonna get.

Luckilly, I sold the last of my Microsoft Software today at embarrassingly low prices ($460 worth of software for $180... how is that fair?) so I'll be able to afford a new drive assuming that khristle agrees that having entertainment is worht the $30!