It could always be worse

I just have to keep telling myself.
School is going well, social life is good, talked to Paul last night so that's fantastic.
Then last night I went to bed. Packed up the laptop and carried it upstairs, as I do every night. Put it on the bed, plugged it in opened it back up and the display didn't come on. I wigle the mouse thinking maybe It just went to sleep or is stuck i sleep mode, no dice. So I manual power off and reboot. Unfortunatly at this point I already know what is wrong, I'm just trying to prove myself wrong. Still nothing. I do the reboot: unplug, remove battery hold power button for 30 seconds, battery back, plug in an power on. Laptop powers up, fans come on, keyboard lights up.... No display.
Several months ago I had an issue with the display going out bit it always came back, after some research I found that the video card in my model is known to fail. They will almost always fix it under warranty within two years of purchase. My two years was up about 30 days ago.
This morning I called Apple in Japan, and they are going to pick my laptop up Sunday. Ship it to a fixer place. And I should have it back in about 10 days. And there is a chance it'll still be warranty. This is great.
So I had a nice lunch with Joselyn and on my way home I ran over a bolt. Huge bolt. Thankfully I made it to the auto shop and I am now waiting on a tire repair.

It could be worse.

Around the interwebs

I spend an awful lot of time on the internet. But with P being gone, outside of school I need to keep myself occupied. Here are some of my favorite sites that give me a good laugh.

(some are NSFW)

Failbooking

Texts from Last Night

(262):

dude this girl next to me farted in the middle of a quiz and denied my high five

(1-262):

bitch

People of Wally World

Epic Win

Oddly Specific

Failblog

Japan

I am going to try to get more active on here (like I don't already have enough to do...) but M-F I will be trying to post about specific things (or not so specific, you'll see) Wednesday is now Japan Day. Each Wednesday I'll try to post something about life in Japan.

Today= Driving

(click on picture for larger image)

almost everyone in Okinawa has a scooter, and if you don't, you know someone who does, these things are everywhere. They also have little regard for the law, they will go before the light is green, pass everyone on the shoulder of the road just to get in front, and drive like total asses most of the time.

In most of the neighborhoods we have these mirrors, see that one with the reflection of the little car in it? I would have never known he was there had the mirror not been here (perfect timing). That's because most of the back streets have completely blind intersections and without these mirrors there would be lots and lots of fender-benders.

just a shot of a bus with a cute sign on it.

Gahhh we drive on the wrong side of the road!!!

I live in an area that is fairly suburban, but this is pretty typical a small two lane road, apartments and a few cars.

the end.

stay tuned tomorrow for.....

Thursday- Around the interwebs, where i'll find and share interesting thing(s) that I find.