I had to get a new laptop. My old laptop was bought in fall of 2005 for $1200. last year I dropped a wheelchair on it and cracked the screen. This summer the wheelchair came back to finish the job, leaving me with a totally black monitor. Despite my love of gothness, a completely black screen is kind of useless, so when Aldi's was selling a Medion Akoya for $600 at the same time that our sales tax was suspended for a couple days, I had to get it. It has better hardware than my old computer and a working monitor, but came with Vista, which I refuse to use. I decided to install Ubuntu and wipe the bastard microsoft off my hard drive. The only problem is that I have no clue how to use linux…

My sound does not work. I think it's a driver issue, but I can't find a working driver because I'm not sure what sound card I have.

My wireless does not work. I have no clue how to start fixing that.

I can't play Starcraft yet, which is the only reason to even own a computer.

I don't think Game Maker works on linux, but Python does, so I'm ok with that.

And my job sucks too. I maintain bioreactors in an R&D lab for a multinational pharmaceutical company. We're supposed to making viruses and bacteria for vaccines, but someone screwed up an experiment so they won't be using the reactors for 3 weeks. I have to quit my job to go back to school in 3 weeks too. That means I have nothing to do at work for the next three weeks………… bored….. bored….. BORED!!!!!!!!7!!!!!!!7!!!!7!!!!!!!!