the P.Pole

I was up late last night finishing up physics homework (easiest course I’ve got this year, hands down) and just as I was in the process of shutting down my computer, I happened to remember to print something. Me being the irrational and hasty individual that I am, decided to press the manual restart button–you know, the little one that’s hidden below or around the power button. Well that was an ass of a move, as Windows’ “Saving your personal settings” was still on my screen. Essentially, I’d nuked my system files/user settings files something righteous and when I logged back on, lo and behold, my explorer bar was nonexistent along with basically everything else on my GUI except the wallpaper. I handicappedly tried to remedy things with my three finger salute, closing and restarting explorer.exe for example. Didn’t work. So, resolving to sleep instead and worry about my computer account–with all its oh so intricate user settings and configurations–tomorrow (today). When I woke up, I found that my dad had already fixed the thing with a simple system restore. Needless to say, I got owned pretty badly and went to school hanging my head in shame.