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Lucinda is ALIVE!
That's the good news.
The bad news:
I had to wipe her hard drive in order to do it (maybe I didn't, but in the choice between wiping the hard drive and getting her up and running, and not wiping the hard drive and hoping that I could pay some computer-adept person to copy everything, I decided that my files weren't that important and that I wanted this issue over with badly enough to lose some data. Plus, I remembered copying a bunch of stuff to Mandy, the second hard drive.
The good news:
I did back-up to Mandy.
The bad news:
I apparently did so in March.
And only copied my pictures at the time.
This is annoying.
The good news:
Some of my more recent pictures are in Facebook. And I didn't take all that many pictures last semester. And I'm sure I could get ellipa to send me more copies of the ones she gave me - in fact, I might be able to find the original CDs.
The other news:
Thinking back on what I had in March, even if I'd saved everything, it wouldn't have done much, because the not-picture things that I would like to have were, for the most part, not on Lucinda in March.
And in annoying news, Lucinda doesn't want to play nice with the firewire cable, so I'm using the memory stick from my camera with its USB connector. It holds 2gigs, but copying pictures is still going to take forever. And I'm wary of turning Lucinda off before I have a copy of all the data I could save safely stored on the laptop that might be Miss Eliza Tudor.
Also, I spent far too much time this afternoon chasing a handwritten invoice (for $500) through layers of beaurocracy so that the president of ceramics club could get her money back, despite the objections of the student bank. That *will* go though, however. I have an e-mail from the disbursements office to prove it.
And homework? What's that? It's a good thing that I've decided to give up procrastination for Lent, because the way I've been going today I won't have time to breathe for a week. The ECC dinner was yummy, and I had fun cooking, and my not-enough-time-spent, not-my-mother's-creamed-spinach actually tasted surprisingly like my mother's. Also the pancakes were excellent.
And in more bad news: my 2gig memory stick seems to thing that it only has about 30mb of free space. This is very puzzling, frustrating, and way too much work for this hour of the night. I give up on copying data; Lucinda will still be here in the morning.
But to repeat the good news: Lucinda is ALIVE, and I can cross fixing my computer off of my to-do list.
The bad news:
I had to wipe her hard drive in order to do it (maybe I didn't, but in the choice between wiping the hard drive and getting her up and running, and not wiping the hard drive and hoping that I could pay some computer-adept person to copy everything, I decided that my files weren't that important and that I wanted this issue over with badly enough to lose some data. Plus, I remembered copying a bunch of stuff to Mandy, the second hard drive.
The good news:
I did back-up to Mandy.
The bad news:
I apparently did so in March.
And only copied my pictures at the time.
This is annoying.
The good news:
Some of my more recent pictures are in Facebook. And I didn't take all that many pictures last semester. And I'm sure I could get ellipa to send me more copies of the ones she gave me - in fact, I might be able to find the original CDs.
The other news:
Thinking back on what I had in March, even if I'd saved everything, it wouldn't have done much, because the not-picture things that I would like to have were, for the most part, not on Lucinda in March.
And in annoying news, Lucinda doesn't want to play nice with the firewire cable, so I'm using the memory stick from my camera with its USB connector. It holds 2gigs, but copying pictures is still going to take forever. And I'm wary of turning Lucinda off before I have a copy of all the data I could save safely stored on the laptop that might be Miss Eliza Tudor.
Also, I spent far too much time this afternoon chasing a handwritten invoice (for $500) through layers of beaurocracy so that the president of ceramics club could get her money back, despite the objections of the student bank. That *will* go though, however. I have an e-mail from the disbursements office to prove it.
And homework? What's that? It's a good thing that I've decided to give up procrastination for Lent, because the way I've been going today I won't have time to breathe for a week. The ECC dinner was yummy, and I had fun cooking, and my not-enough-time-spent, not-my-mother's-creamed-spinach actually tasted surprisingly like my mother's. Also the pancakes were excellent.
And in more bad news: my 2gig memory stick seems to thing that it only has about 30mb of free space. This is very puzzling, frustrating, and way too much work for this hour of the night. I give up on copying data; Lucinda will still be here in the morning.
But to repeat the good news: Lucinda is ALIVE, and I can cross fixing my computer off of my to-do list.
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