Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Faith

So if I believed in God, I’d say he was trying to fuck me.

Outlining had been progressing nicely on the first spec up on the roster. I was in fact scheduled to finish it up today, and after taking tomorrow to work on a TV pilot with a friend, I was looking forward to writing pages this Friday.

For me, writing pages is the real fun part of the process. Outlining and treatment writing are the logistical heavy lifting of the process, and at least for me at this point, still a bit cumbersome (though absolutely necessary).

So right after lunch, I walked into the office to wake the computer up and finish the outline, and the screen wouldn’t turn on. The computer was fine, mind you – I could restart it, adjust volume, the whole nine – I just couldn’t see anything.

Which as you can imagine, is not so helpful when one is trying to write down and organize story beats.

Apparently there is a known issue with a certain model of graphics card made by the company Nvidia (I’d link to an article about said issue but I’m writing this on my phone, which has no cut and paste functionality see here and here). Users of Dell, Apple, and HP laptops have been dealing with this issue for the last 8-10 months.

Today the issue picked me. So here I am at the Apple Store at The Grove in L.A., looking at a two hour wait to talk to an Apple Genius, who will then take my machine and tell me I’m looking at between 3-14 4-6 days for them to replace the entire motherboard to my laptop.

All of this happening, of course, less than a month after I quit my job to focus on writing full-time.

Like I said, if I still believed in God…