S-O-C-K-S

ok kind of an update on my computer. not really much of anything changed. i think i may have struck upon something when i finally got the computer to tell me that all the information on my computer would be lost. i guess that it was its way of telling me the harddrive would be formatted. i agreed and the process. a scant ten minutes later it was 50% complete, but then it seemingly froze again. again i let the program run overnight, but when i checked back in the morning, the pross was still only half done.
this morning i decided i would use the windows to try formatting it. that seemed to have complete, and i followed up with installing the windows OS again. this time was a little different. previously, when i would try to install Vista, during the "expanding files" portion, it was constantly set on zero. now, for the first time, it was slowly growing percentagewise. since i have to go to work, i will not know if it was actually a success until i get home this afternoon. here's hoping!
in other news, my current roommate is systematically trying to drive me insane. from his random letters with the poor spelling and grammatical errors. for example, he apparently thinks that the "took" is spelled "tolk". wtf is that?! i would say it was the public school system's fault, but went to school here. i think he's just an idiot.
at any rate, he just randomly had the internet, and quite possibly the cable with it, turned off. this is more than likely due to his love hate relationship with his digital cable box, i.e. he was too stupid to operate it, so it was always malfunctioning. at any rate, this comes at one of the worst possible times. for crying out loud, i am in the middle of a grand theft auto event, and it requires that my xbox be logged in to track my status. *sigh* mayhaps i can get one of my friends to let me use their internet long enough to update my games status this weekend.