Am I Too Blue? (Lucinda Williams)

Okay... well... I need all the healing energy the universe can send in my direction - long story short... my computer has bluescreened (flatlined?). Long story long... I got home from work yesterday, logged on and was given the message my virtual memory was low (no jokes, please) - I closed out of all programs, ran a Clean Sweep through Norton and set it to defragment the disc while I was at a meeting - when I got home, the defragmentation was complete and I decided to reboot, figuring that would help clear the system...

The computer tried to restart, but kept defaulting to the above-mentioned blue screen, with a big-*ss STOP and then a lengthy error message - I did attempt to F8 each time to get myself into safe mode... but it wouldn't let me. After three tries last night, I turned it off and went to bed, hoping all would be well in the morning - an 8:00 a.m. log-on had the same azure/cerulean/denim/indigo/midnight/navy/periwinkle/royal/sky results...

I called my tech guy, who is coming over first thing tomorrow - in the meantime, I'm holding the vision/thinking positive/invoking the law of attraction/sending skyward thoughts/burning all the purple candles I can muster that the situation is resolvable...

I'm also realistic enough to know "it is what it is" and am resigned to the fact I'll have to be okay with zero retrieval of data, despite the fact so much of my life (family/friends/concert series/folk club/festival/church/etc.) is documented and organized on my hard drive - just typing that threatens to turn my breathing to hyperventilation...

I did a bit of googling and came up with the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) - that doesn't sound good, does it? (rhetorical f*cking question)...

SONG: Am I Too Blue? by Lucinda Williams

BOOK: Zen Computer by Philip Toshio Sudo

POEM(S): Haiku Error Messages (Salon's 21st Challenge)

Three things are certain:

Death, taxes, and lost data.

Guess which has occurred.
-- David Dixon

Everything is gone;

Your life's work has been destroyed.

Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?
-- David Carlson

I'm sorry, there's -- um --

insufficient -- what's-it-called?

The term eludes me ...
-- Owen Mathews

Windows NT crashed.

I am the Blue Screen of Death.

No one hears your screams.
-- Peter Rothman

Seeing my great fault

Through darkening blue windows

I begin again
-- Chris Walsh

The code was willing,

It considered your request,

But the chips were weak.
-- Barry L. Brumitt

Printer not ready.

Could be a fatal error.

Have a pen handy?
-- Pat Davis

A file that big?

It might be very useful.

But now it is gone.
-- David J. Liszewski

Errors have occurred.

We won't tell you where or why.

Lazy programmers.
-- Charlie Gibbs

Server's poor response

Not quick enough for browser.

Timed out, plum blossom.
-- Rik Jespersen

Chaos reigns within.

Reflect, repent, and reboot.

Order shall return.
-- Suzie Wagner

Login incorrect.

Only perfect spellers may

enter this system.
-- Jason Axley

This site has been moved.

We'd tell you where, but then we'd

have to delete you.
-- Charles Matthews

wind catches lily

scatt'ring petals to the wind:

segmentation fault
-- Nick Sweeney

ABORTED effort:

Close all that you have.

You ask way too much.
-- Mike Hagler

First snow, then silence.

This thousand dollar screen dies

so beautifully.
-- Simon Firth

With searching comes loss

and the presence of absence:

"My Novel" not found.
-- Howard Korder

The Tao that is seen

Is not the true Tao, until

You bring fresh toner.
-- Bill Torcaso

The Web site you seek

cannot be located but

endless others exist
-- Joy Rothke

Stay the patient course

Of little worth is your ire

The network is down
-- David Ansel

A crash reduces

your expensive computer

to a simple stone.
-- James Lopez

There is a chasm

of carbon and silicon

the software can't bridge
-- Rahul Sonnad

Yesterday it worked

Today it is not working

Windows is like that
-- Margaret Segall

To have no errors

Would be life without meaning

No struggle, no joy
-- Brian M. Porter

You step in the stream,

but the water has moved on.

This page is not here.
-- Cass Whittington

No keyboard present

Hit F1 to continue

Zen engineering?
-- Jim Griffith

Hal, open the file

Hal, open the damn file, Hal

open the, please Hal
-- Jennifer Jo Lane

Out of memory.

We wish to hold the whole sky,

But we never will.
-- Francis Heaney

Having been erased,

The document you're seeking

Must now be retyped.
-- Judy Birmingham

The ten thousand things

How long do any persist?

Netscape, too, has gone.
-- Jason Willoughby

Rather than a beep

Or a rude error message,

These words: "File not found."
-- Len Dvorkin

Serious error.

All shortcuts have disappeared.

Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
-- Ian Hughes

QUOTE: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." ~ Robert Frost