a forced fresh start
Man, Saturday was a shitty day. After almost hitting another car trying to parallel park in the snow, having to give up and drive a block further from the door, locking myself out of the car while trying to get my drumset out for rehearsal and holding everyone up for half an hour, my computer just spontaneously died. More specifically, the hard drive died. I took it to the Apple store in the morning, where I was told that it was a manufacturing defect and that it was so far gone that they couldn't recover any of the data, but that I could at least have it replaced for free. So I got a new drive that's twice as big at 160GB, but lost all of my data from the 3 years I've had this computer. All of my college papers are gone, and all of my college pictures that didn't make it to Facebook (admittedly there aren't that many since I don't own a camera) are gone. There were pictures in there of people I will likely never see again, and I don't have any other pictures of them. Will I forget what they look like? At least my stuff from my time in Japan is still safe, because that was from the previous computer and I did back up all of that stuff years ago. I managed to get the most recent music off my iPod Touch, but not the Nano because that decided to also kick the bucket yesterday. I didn't see a need to put all the music on the Touch because I wasn't in the mood to listen to it, so there was only about 3 gigs out of 30 there to recover. I also had a little bit of my really old stuff from the old backup, so now what's missing is all the stuff in between.
It's definitely a good time to take stock of what was important to me. I'm sure there's a ton of things that I lost, but can't remember right now today. I'm the most sad about losing the pictures; both the cute things that I collected from the web and the pictures that people sent me. And then there are the silly things I will miss like the handwriting fonts we did a few months back, or the things I made for myself in Photoshop and various flash applications. I don't need them to survive, but I'm sad that they're gone!
Mom's getting me an external to at least back up my crap this go round. =| I asked her for one several times last year and she didn't think I needed one. Yeah?
Oh and I need my wisdom teeth pulled really bad. Either I'm clutching the right side of my face in pain, or I'm hopped up on Tylenol C and can't drive anywhere. I'm scheduled for next Thursday but it's not soon enough. At least I have a computer? I mean it could have been worse; they could have told me I had to send it in for this.
It's definitely a good time to take stock of what was important to me. I'm sure there's a ton of things that I lost, but can't remember right now today. I'm the most sad about losing the pictures; both the cute things that I collected from the web and the pictures that people sent me. And then there are the silly things I will miss like the handwriting fonts we did a few months back, or the things I made for myself in Photoshop and various flash applications. I don't need them to survive, but I'm sad that they're gone!
Mom's getting me an external to at least back up my crap this go round. =| I asked her for one several times last year and she didn't think I needed one. Yeah?
Oh and I need my wisdom teeth pulled really bad. Either I'm clutching the right side of my face in pain, or I'm hopped up on Tylenol C and can't drive anywhere. I'm scheduled for next Thursday but it's not soon enough. At least I have a computer? I mean it could have been worse; they could have told me I had to send it in for this.