Epic Fail
June 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized
Ok everyone, how’s it going?!
I really don’t have that much to post about right now, but I haven’t put anything on here in a while, so I thought I’d at least make an effort.
Part of the delay has been that my computer took a great big dump last week, and my hard drive is officially fried. This is a little disconcerting on a couple of different levels. I had most of my important files and photos backed up (because this happened to me a few years ago, and I learned the hard way), but some of my most recent photos, files, and 100GB of music that I had are apparently now gone. If you don’t have your important files backed up on a separate hard drive, I cannot overstate the importance of doing this. It is incredibly distressing to lose photos and personal files, and just a big old bummer to lose everything else.
Since I don’t have $300-400 lying around right now for an entry level replacement computer, I decided to just install Ubuntu (which is a free replacement for the Windows operating system which you can learn about here ) onto a cheap, small refurbished hard drive I picked up at a local computer store. Ubuntu can’t run many of the programs that Windows can run, but for simple office tasks, internet access, and email, it’s a lifesaver.
The next step, I suppose is to find out if the data on that hard drive is salvageable using a technique that I discovered on the internets one day. That will probably have to wait a couple weeks, however, until I finally get a commission check. (Last month I missed my goal, and didn’t get one. That is unacceptable.)
I also managed to do some nice bike riding this week and some house cleaning, all thanks to the wonderful weather that we’re finally being treated to! This coming weekend is going to be an awesome good time as well, as my sister is in town from Missouri, there’s the White Bear Lake Manitou days parade and beach dance on Friday night, the North Branch Midsummer carnival and street dance on Saturday night, an afternoon of fun planned for the Wild Mountain waterslides on Saturday, and a Saints game on Sunday! What a weekend!
I’ll be sure to post an update next week, and tell you how it all went down. Have a great weekend!
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