I blew up my external hard drive yesterday. Same error with the new casing. Write delay. It’s been doing it for a year now so something’s going on with the drive. Of course I was dumb enough to put important data on it, since it *had* been fixed. Well norton disc doctor did a check then promptly hid half the files on the drive. I got 75% back and promptly ordered a 120 gig hard drive (with huge rebate) at Circuit City for in store pick up.
Get in the car. Oh that’s right. My mom had the good car. The old car we had let one of her friends borrow for the week. So what car did I get stuck with? Yes, the car that had no heat, had the radio taken out and one of the wheels isn’t on properly. I got ten miles down the road when the space where the radio had been started to smoke. I turned around and started back home, that’s when the tire started making wonderful sounds as if it were going to fall off. Somehow I made it home.
My plan today was to get up as early as possible and go to circuit city. Instead? 6 inches of snow today (2 on the ground already) and another 6 tonight. I might get there tomorrow. Maybe. God only knows at this point.
Reformatted this computer yesterday. Oh yes, that’s where this story was going to go. I should be okay once the new drive goes in. I’ll have about 70 gigs free to mess around with and 50 gigs of data ready for it. I just have to move 39 gigs from the existing disk elsewhere until I can put the new disk in. I’m not exactly sure how I’m going to do this but … you know, after the past couple of days, I can do anything I put my mind to. Why? Because it’s going to be a fight and it’s going to be a PITA and …
Oh hell, I’m letting this DVD finish burning then I’m going to go out and haul wood. My dad is actually using *more* wood now that the wood stove is fixed. This is going to be ugly. I don’t want to move. There’s snow on the ground. I put food out for the birds (who Stef is helping me identify) and most of it is covered in snow. I think that it’s kind of neat that they all come to our house for food. But I do think that it’s crazy that whenever it’s snowing they’re out there instead of finding a place to stay warm.
Crazy.
I’m off most of the day so I’m going back to putting everything on this PC. Wish me luck or a life or a beautiful snow angel to come take me away from this misery.
I had a dream I won a trip to Australia last night. Then I couldn’t go because the airport was snowed in.
Dammit.
k9