Once again back, it's the incredible
21:00. Had just fired up the ol' WinMX, got my slot in some queues, figured I'd play a quick game of Starcraft before retiring to my bed. Before the intro screen had even loaded on the game, who shows up. Three guesses, and if one of those guesses is uncle, you'd be correct. He says that he has to be someplace bright and early tomorrow, and asked if he could use my phone to confirm his ride. A sigh of relief is breathed, as I figured he'd use the phone, chit-chat for a short while, and scram due to having to be someplace early. Funny how things never work that way.
He finished up his phone conversation, so I reconnected to the intraweb, got back into the WinMX queues, and restarted Starcraft. Played a 1-vs-3 game, uncle is still here prattling on and on about some super-hero game, his desire to purchase the seven seasons of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and watch them straight through, and of course, the Buffy role playing game. His obsession with all things Buffy and Xena are frighteningly sad, might I add. So, my awesome ignoring skills were put to the test here, as I was getting quite sick of Starcraft, and intraweb stuff is completely impossible to do with him yacking. Decided to pop in a CD (Primus), which had absolutely zero effect on his inane topic startings.
Figuring I might as well find something else to do, I decided on breaking out the old Nintendo ROM's and kill some time there. Looked through my catalogs, found that they had been placed on the disc labeled "Warez #2", popped that in, and.... fuck, the CD is screwing up. The games and programs folders were fine, but the emulation folder gave a "corrupt or unreadable" error upon clicking. Looked around for a decent CD-recovery program, eventually found one that had three modes of recovery. Tried the first mode, nothing. Second mode, displayed the files that were corrupted, but couldn't recover them. Third mode, supposed to the heavy-duty-fix-anything mode, was started. After ten minutes, it was at something around 2% complete, so I decided to look around for a site with some downloadable ROM's to kill some time. One was found, so I spent a good deal of time playing Uncle Fester's Quest and Bubble Bath Babes. Uncle eventually left, but not before mentioning that he was going to be renting Fahrenheit 9/11 tomorrow / today, and asking if I'd want him to bring it over. The choice of either getting a movie out of the Netflix queue but watching it with him, or taking up a week of my time to wait for it to arrive / watch / wait for them to receive it was debated, and I decided to grant him permission to return with the DVD in hand tonight. The CD program eventually finished, and said it had recovered all of the files. Holey moley, thinks I.... until I attempt to open the zip files. Corrupt, every last one of them. Deleted, trashed the CD, and bed-time.
He finished up his phone conversation, so I reconnected to the intraweb, got back into the WinMX queues, and restarted Starcraft. Played a 1-vs-3 game, uncle is still here prattling on and on about some super-hero game, his desire to purchase the seven seasons of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and watch them straight through, and of course, the Buffy role playing game. His obsession with all things Buffy and Xena are frighteningly sad, might I add. So, my awesome ignoring skills were put to the test here, as I was getting quite sick of Starcraft, and intraweb stuff is completely impossible to do with him yacking. Decided to pop in a CD (Primus), which had absolutely zero effect on his inane topic startings.
Figuring I might as well find something else to do, I decided on breaking out the old Nintendo ROM's and kill some time there. Looked through my catalogs, found that they had been placed on the disc labeled "Warez #2", popped that in, and.... fuck, the CD is screwing up. The games and programs folders were fine, but the emulation folder gave a "corrupt or unreadable" error upon clicking. Looked around for a decent CD-recovery program, eventually found one that had three modes of recovery. Tried the first mode, nothing. Second mode, displayed the files that were corrupted, but couldn't recover them. Third mode, supposed to the heavy-duty-fix-anything mode, was started. After ten minutes, it was at something around 2% complete, so I decided to look around for a site with some downloadable ROM's to kill some time. One was found, so I spent a good deal of time playing Uncle Fester's Quest and Bubble Bath Babes. Uncle eventually left, but not before mentioning that he was going to be renting Fahrenheit 9/11 tomorrow / today, and asking if I'd want him to bring it over. The choice of either getting a movie out of the Netflix queue but watching it with him, or taking up a week of my time to wait for it to arrive / watch / wait for them to receive it was debated, and I decided to grant him permission to return with the DVD in hand tonight. The CD program eventually finished, and said it had recovered all of the files. Holey moley, thinks I.... until I attempt to open the zip files. Corrupt, every last one of them. Deleted, trashed the CD, and bed-time.