[m i a o w] the cat

It seems that my life is currently doomed to be plagued by data-loss, crappy components and insurance companies that never call me back. Last week my new motherboard and chip arrived in the post via ebay. Good.

Tried to find a quick-printing shop in Hervey bay to print out the 60 page motherboard manual.
This place is a TOTAL BACKWATER and the only places that would do it wanted more than fifty cents a page. Hello?
Borrowed M’s mother’s computer to read manual onscreen.
Dismantled M’s old computer that I’ve been using for the past three weeks A.L (after lightening)
Successfully (to my own shock) replaced motherboard, installed new graphics card, swapped the RAM.
It went too smoothly.
My hard drive crapped out.
Big time.
Resized it with Partition Magic and finally got it going (about 30 hours later).
All was well.
Told self that 500MB wasn’t much free space and that I should, now everything was working, resize the partition somewhat bigger.
FUCKING BIG MISTAKE.
Somehow, the hard drive totally crapped itself and I lost the lot.
Over a weeks worth of work.
Over a weeks worth of work that I had SWEATED BLOOD OVER.
All emails, favourites, installed programs, resources etc.
Gone.
My Endnote file for my work project.
Gone.
Went into a 36-hour depression.
Realised that my last two and a half thousand words of crime novel were backed up on my Palm Pilot.
All hail the Palm Pilot.
Am now treating M’s computer very very carefully.
Will backup work every night.
Let this be a lesson to all of you out there who dare to feel a tiny bit smug after doing major surgery on your computer.
Am now saving up for new hard drive.

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Oy, vey. You have my sympathies!

Missjenjen typed this on Dec 16 03 at 8:36 am

:o(
thank you for your condolences.
naturally I’m sitting here, it’s Tuesday morning, and I *cannot* begin to retrack my steps on all the work stuff I have to pull out from the back of my brain (which is now the only place that it exists). Ay yi yi.
Ugh.

beth typed this on Dec 16 03 at 8:42 am

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