Back from the dead
Quite literally. My computer crashed about two weeks ago, and I've only had it up and working again for the past few days. My hard drive pretty much decided to eat itself and die a horrrible death. My school has a computer repair department, since we are all required to have only the authorized, issued computers on the network and they are required to maintain them. But I really didn't want to make the walk of shame down through the dorm and to the basement carrying my ancient desk-top tower. I spent the better part of a week essentially without a computer until my fiance could come visit and take a look at it. It turned out that not only did my hard drive die and refuse to boot up my computer, all the information on it is essentially lost without sending it off to an expensive data recovery center. Most places want to charge somewhere between $400 and $1000 to do this. ::glug:: So I ended up doing the walk of shame anyway and had to ask them to just replace the hard drive but let me keep to corrupted one for data recovery. They looked at me like I had lobsters crawling from my ears. I guess I wouldn't be so put out about the loos of data if that loss hadn't included every single picture I have taken for the past five years. Every picture of my fiance since I met him, every picture of every doll I have bought, the road trip throught the Shenandoah Valley, the trip to Busch Gardens, the night I got engaged, the weekend I moved into my apartment in Virginia with my roommate and my fiance, the impromtu midnight pep rally to celebrate our win over Notre Dame, all my the pictures of my cats Stewart, Neko, Snickers and my loving, depated Shadow. Everything. It's all gone. So yes, I think it is worth it to pay to have someone recover those files for me. What kills me is I had just been talking about buying an external hard drive to back everything up just a couple days before, and was waiting to see my fiance again to have him help me get a good one without over paying. Damn my luck! ::cry::
Ok, enough of that. MJy computer works again, and I should be able to get everything back eventually. What else is going on. Oh, I read a really good book called The Thirteenth Tale. It is about an old reclusive author whom no one knows anything about. Every single interview she has ever given has been a different story about her life. But she writes to this one woman one day and asks her to come out and take down her real story, the truth, word for word. As the story unfolds, it is so fantastic and complex that you can't even begin to wonder what other stories she came up with that managed to cast a shadow over this one. Seriously a good book. Go read it, now. I promise you won't be disappointed. I also discoverd that sitting in a McDonald's on a Friday evening next to the children's play area while eating a double cheeseburger and reading The Silence of the Lambs is more than enough to elicit some dirty looks from other people in the place. Yeah.....maybe not the best idea I've ever had, but I honestly didn't think about it at the time.
I have also been knitting a baby blanket for the wife of one of my fiance's cooworkers since she is due next month. It is pink and yellow and very pretty. I will have to post pictures of it. I have also spent time playing my Pokemon Yellow game on my ancient and archaec Gamyboy Color. I have two badges and eighteen Pokemon! Go me! And, because I am a loser eccentric interesting and have no problems admitting it, I am also watching all of the Pokemon series online. >.< My roommates laugh at me, then ask if I am at certain parts yet or if I have caought thier favorite Pokemon yet. Yeah for being INTERESTING!!!!!!
That's about all for now. I need to get back to work on learning to write an appropriate, formal memo now for my Professional Communications class tomorrow. /rant
Ok, enough of that. MJy computer works again, and I should be able to get everything back eventually. What else is going on. Oh, I read a really good book called The Thirteenth Tale. It is about an old reclusive author whom no one knows anything about. Every single interview she has ever given has been a different story about her life. But she writes to this one woman one day and asks her to come out and take down her real story, the truth, word for word. As the story unfolds, it is so fantastic and complex that you can't even begin to wonder what other stories she came up with that managed to cast a shadow over this one. Seriously a good book. Go read it, now. I promise you won't be disappointed. I also discoverd that sitting in a McDonald's on a Friday evening next to the children's play area while eating a double cheeseburger and reading The Silence of the Lambs is more than enough to elicit some dirty looks from other people in the place. Yeah.....maybe not the best idea I've ever had, but I honestly didn't think about it at the time.
I have also been knitting a baby blanket for the wife of one of my fiance's cooworkers since she is due next month. It is pink and yellow and very pretty. I will have to post pictures of it. I have also spent time playing my Pokemon Yellow game on my ancient and archaec Gamyboy Color. I have two badges and eighteen Pokemon! Go me! And, because I am a loser eccentric interesting and have no problems admitting it, I am also watching all of the Pokemon series online. >.< My roommates laugh at me, then ask if I am at certain parts yet or if I have caought thier favorite Pokemon yet. Yeah for being INTERESTING!!!!!!
That's about all for now. I need to get back to work on learning to write an appropriate, formal memo now for my Professional Communications class tomorrow. /rant