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So Fran had a complete hard drive meltdown and everything on my main and back-up drives was totally lost. The only good news is that my external back-up drive survived so it wasn't a total loss. Still: all my PC games and save files, half a year's worth of my iTunes library and the extensive list of TV shows/Movies I wanted to check out are kaput.
Dad tried to salvage the data but it isn't looking good for my main drive, though he's waiting til he has some free time to take a crack at the 80GB back-up drive. Oh, he's also kinda busy at the moment since he got a new job, haven't posted about that yet. Still a caretaker job but at a combined infant/junior school, we figure that younger, less obnoxious kids should make his job a lot less stressful.
Took a few days to recollect the songs I could remember from the chunk of my library that went missing and of course the playcounts are fucked to hell, meaning I'm having to check through most of my podfics and be like "Did I listen to this one yet?"
Speaking of podfic, I've been taking part in amplificathon. The hard drive failure has put me too far behind the curve to stand a chance of winning, so I'm mostly focused on finishing up the last few fics I have permission to record before the end of the month. I'm working on an 80K fic at the moment, only 6 chapters left to record plus all the editing.
Oh, just to top everything off, Google are on one of their "We must control every aspect of your online world" kicks again. I tried reinstalling Live Messenger and it referred me on to Skype. Now, I have no problem with Skype only once I installed it and tried to access my hotmail account it shunted me over to Outlook. After a few days of Outlook sending me to an error screen when I tried to log-in, it finally gave me the option to regain access to my hotmail account and asked me for a shitload of information to verify that I am the account owner. This would be fine except I've been using that e-mail account since I was 15, how the fuck am I supposed to remember the answer to a security question from over six years ago? I don't even remember if I bothered putting a security question on my account or not.
I filled in whatever I could and I guess they finally decided to accept it. Apparently they'll check the information I gave and decide whether I'm really me sometime in the next 24 hours. If not, I'll just have to get a new e-mail account and reset my contact address on every site that I visit... Which given Google's nefarious plans that started all this bullshit in the first place, I'm sure will just be a barrel of laughs ¬__¬
Doctor Who's back and I'm kinda 'meh' about it so far. It's not bad, the show's certainly been worse, but it doesn't give me fuzzies either. I'm holding out hope that they're building to something with Clara, they're certainly dropping all kinds of hints that she's Important but when I compare it to Amy and the 'Crack in the Bedroom' plot, it just doesn't measure up.
ETA: Just checked my backlog and wow, it's been over a month since I last updated.
Okay, other big news is that Hanna moved back from Essex. While I offered my sympathies that her relationship didn't work out, I was honestly glad to have her back. She, Yasmin and I met up for a day on the town a couple of weeks ago. It was the closest we've been to the old days in a long time, mostly just wandering round town, window shopping, with only a brief stop off at The Bell for lunch.
Dad tried to salvage the data but it isn't looking good for my main drive, though he's waiting til he has some free time to take a crack at the 80GB back-up drive. Oh, he's also kinda busy at the moment since he got a new job, haven't posted about that yet. Still a caretaker job but at a combined infant/junior school, we figure that younger, less obnoxious kids should make his job a lot less stressful.
Took a few days to recollect the songs I could remember from the chunk of my library that went missing and of course the playcounts are fucked to hell, meaning I'm having to check through most of my podfics and be like "Did I listen to this one yet?"
Speaking of podfic, I've been taking part in amplificathon. The hard drive failure has put me too far behind the curve to stand a chance of winning, so I'm mostly focused on finishing up the last few fics I have permission to record before the end of the month. I'm working on an 80K fic at the moment, only 6 chapters left to record plus all the editing.
Oh, just to top everything off, Google are on one of their "We must control every aspect of your online world" kicks again. I tried reinstalling Live Messenger and it referred me on to Skype. Now, I have no problem with Skype only once I installed it and tried to access my hotmail account it shunted me over to Outlook. After a few days of Outlook sending me to an error screen when I tried to log-in, it finally gave me the option to regain access to my hotmail account and asked me for a shitload of information to verify that I am the account owner. This would be fine except I've been using that e-mail account since I was 15, how the fuck am I supposed to remember the answer to a security question from over six years ago? I don't even remember if I bothered putting a security question on my account or not.
I filled in whatever I could and I guess they finally decided to accept it. Apparently they'll check the information I gave and decide whether I'm really me sometime in the next 24 hours. If not, I'll just have to get a new e-mail account and reset my contact address on every site that I visit... Which given Google's nefarious plans that started all this bullshit in the first place, I'm sure will just be a barrel of laughs ¬__¬
Doctor Who's back and I'm kinda 'meh' about it so far. It's not bad, the show's certainly been worse, but it doesn't give me fuzzies either. I'm holding out hope that they're building to something with Clara, they're certainly dropping all kinds of hints that she's Important but when I compare it to Amy and the 'Crack in the Bedroom' plot, it just doesn't measure up.
ETA: Just checked my backlog and wow, it's been over a month since I last updated.
Okay, other big news is that Hanna moved back from Essex. While I offered my sympathies that her relationship didn't work out, I was honestly glad to have her back. She, Yasmin and I met up for a day on the town a couple of weeks ago. It was the closest we've been to the old days in a long time, mostly just wandering round town, window shopping, with only a brief stop off at The Bell for lunch.