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newnumber6So, the latest in a series of annoyances, mostly minor with a few slightly less minor of the past week, the latest cuts in the universe's quest for 1000...
Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30am as usual to get ready and go to work, showed up at 6... and waited more than 3 and a half hours for the truck to arrive. It was apparently, running late. Then, after getting home, wanting to relax a bit before making up some sleep, I turn on my computers and... discover that one of them won't boot up. Apparently something in the HD died, or the whole HD died, I'm not sure yet. I didn't lose anything vital at least - most of my writing is here on this one, and most of the important stuff on the other computer I backed up here (and vice versa, cause I'm paranoid). Assuming the data's unrecoverable (I don't know at this point, but there's not enough there important to bother with trying to take it somewhere professional to do it, so if I can't get at it myself, it is), I think I lost a couple scripts I was working on, but those were more experimental/goofball than anything else, and the rest is all stuff I can easily (well, somewhat easily) download again, it'd just be a pain to get everything as I wanted it. The main problem is that it is my faster computer so until I get a new HD to run it off and install an OS on it, I can't watch movies (or even video clips, really). So bah. Bah I say. I mean granted right now all there is is SG:A's finale, but in the next little while will be a couple things that I won't be able to get on TV and I would rely on downloading to get my fix.
Anyway, let's get some Book Foo out of the way.
Finished: The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman (reread)
Started: Excession, by Iain M. Banks
I've already read FW many times so no detailed comments.
Finished: Jumper, by Steven Gould (reread x15ish)
Started: Otherland, Vol 2: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
My only comments on Jumper is to reiterate: waaaaay better than the movie.
ETA: Yay! Thanks to some magic disk utils on CD my brother had on him, I was able to get the drive to boot up again and all seems to be running. It's too early to say if it's a permanent fix, but it works for now and everything seems to be there. Now to find SGA
Yesterday, I woke up at 4:30am as usual to get ready and go to work, showed up at 6... and waited more than 3 and a half hours for the truck to arrive. It was apparently, running late. Then, after getting home, wanting to relax a bit before making up some sleep, I turn on my computers and... discover that one of them won't boot up. Apparently something in the HD died, or the whole HD died, I'm not sure yet. I didn't lose anything vital at least - most of my writing is here on this one, and most of the important stuff on the other computer I backed up here (and vice versa, cause I'm paranoid). Assuming the data's unrecoverable (I don't know at this point, but there's not enough there important to bother with trying to take it somewhere professional to do it, so if I can't get at it myself, it is), I think I lost a couple scripts I was working on, but those were more experimental/goofball than anything else, and the rest is all stuff I can easily (well, somewhat easily) download again, it'd just be a pain to get everything as I wanted it. The main problem is that it is my faster computer so until I get a new HD to run it off and install an OS on it, I can't watch movies (or even video clips, really). So bah. Bah I say. I mean granted right now all there is is SG:A's finale, but in the next little while will be a couple things that I won't be able to get on TV and I would rely on downloading to get my fix.
Anyway, let's get some Book Foo out of the way.
Finished: The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman (reread)
Started: Excession, by Iain M. Banks
I've already read FW many times so no detailed comments.
Finished: Jumper, by Steven Gould (reread x15ish)
Started: Otherland, Vol 2: River of Blue Fire by Tad Williams
My only comments on Jumper is to reiterate: waaaaay better than the movie.
ETA: Yay! Thanks to some magic disk utils on CD my brother had on him, I was able to get the drive to boot up again and all seems to be running. It's too early to say if it's a permanent fix, but it works for now and everything seems to be there. Now to find SGA
