... it's no twin towers, but my iMac not booting up is almost as tragic, right?

/me is shot

Aaanyway. Let's get past that awkwardness so I can talk about my conversation with the Apple tech support. Cuz it was weird and wonderful.

I installed updates on the iMac, restarted it, and then... nothing. It wouldn't boot up the OS. The loading gear just kept spiiiinning. This was around 10 pm Thursday. Naturally, I couldn't sleep and just stayed awake until the Apple Tech support opened at 6 am. and I called them up at 6 on the dot.

I got this dude who seemed like a patient and friendly tech support guy. He started taking me through processes to hopefully get my comp to boot. I had to do a lot fo restarting and waiting... and since I hate awkward silence, I started some awkward conversation. Then it got more fun (as I watched progress bars on the comp).

So I found out dude was Canadian and I mentioned the pics of Stephen Harper and the sweatervests and kittens (insert his shock at an American knowing who Stephen Harper is) .... and he said I couldn't have seen pictures because Stephen Harper was a vampire (is every Canadian in on this joke or something?!), and of course I made G20 jokes.

During the hour I spent on the phone, we made fun of Lithuania (stop being so contradictory, Lithuania) and Europe in general, he said Vancouverites were tweakers and said Toronto was better, we agreed that I wasn't really on the phone and was actually getting tech support from the Canadian igloo god in a dream vision. At some point, I said I drew comic books and dude was stoked and said he wanted to open a comic book store cuz he was a comic book nerd.

Best tech support call ever. Also Canadians are adorable.

And my iMac works now. It was my fault anyway. I'm never putting off update installs ever again. Also, I just ordered a 1 TB external hard drive. :T