should have known better...

i should have known better than to think that technological fortune had begun to smile upon me.
12 hours after i "fixed" my computer, it crashed again. i can now get it to work for 2 hours before it begins to malfunction and needs to cool down for 5 more.
lisa's brother says i can fix this by getting a new hard drive for $150.

i won a flash drive in a library database fair drawing (i go to library database fairs).
it doesn't work.

on the up-side, my economist intelligence unit magic 8-ball has correctly predicted a number of events.