Technical Difficulties!! ARGH!!

Ok, so, a few days ago, Kat posted pics of having her wrist tattoo redone. Someone had asked to see a pic of the original but she didn't keep any. lol I mentioned that I had some--I just had to get it off the desktop. Simple, right?! WRONG!!! The desktop. Yeah...umm...I can't remember exactly...but I think I got it in '02. I "upgraded" it with an NVIDIA graphics card in '07 (so I could play SL on it!). It has been in storage since Nov of '08 now. Til today! I plug it all up (scattered all over the floor, mind you!) & the monitor won't come on--just tells me it's in "Power Safe Mode" but I should be able to hit any key or move the mouse to bring it out of it. Nope. Doesn't work! So I Google the error message & see that Dell LCDs & NVIDIA graphics cards have a long-standing history of not getting along very well. AWESOME!! So I call my mom. Yep. She knows what I'm talking about cuz she's had the same problem before. Try her old monitor, she says. So I drive the 30 minutes to get to her house. Her old monitor...uhh...OK!! It's one of those ancient beasts that's as big as house!! You remember those?! LOL But...I'm willing to try whatever...cuz, you know, it's for Kat & all. *sighs* So I tote the thing home...

Coming home from my mom's, I am closer to Dan at the shop than I am my house so I decide to go ahead & swing by to talk to him about my tat. It just won't be for my birthday is all. I show him what I have & tell him my ideas. I knew they were going to the convention the 1st week of May anyway so he says when he gets back--the 2nd week of May. I'll get ahold of him closer to that time to actually schedule a sitting. I know *basically* what I want but have no clue or idea of how it can look decent so he's going to just use his talents & fix me up! :D

Anyway, so I get home with the ancient beast & lug it up the stairs! Ack!! Yeah. That was quite fun! :/ Plug it up. NOPE!! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! THIS one is telling me to check the signal! WTF?! So off to Google I go again. Guess what?! The answers I see all go back to that fucken NVIDIA graphics card!! GAHHH!!! So, yeah...I have no clue how to access the files on that comp without spending $100+ to upgrade to another graphics card! I'd rather spend that $ on my tat! ;-p I may eventually gather all the desktop pieces back up again & put them away. But not tonight. Or tomorrow night. Or...hmm...possibly Sun! lol ;-p In the meantime, I will continuously yell at Sebastian to leave it alone! hahahaha He's having fun with it! *snorts*

It is abso-freaking-lutely RIDICULOUS the shit I will *still* do for Kat!!! o.0 I need a labotomy...