Well I’m almost back up and running now. Dell overnighted me a new hard-drive, which I was convinced wasn’t the problem, but low-and-behold it was. I was guessing it was just a connector that had shorted out but appearently the drive seized up. So I spent the majority of the day formatting the new hard drive and re-installing all of my applications back on to the laptop. The last backup I had of my data files was from around the 16th. So I lost about 10 days worth of work and data. Not a huge loss but enough to cause some confusion in my already confusing life.

I attempted to get the data off the old drive by buying a little USB portable drive kit and plugging the 2 1/2″ drive into that, but it’s unrecognizable as even an external data drive.

AND to top it off, my OTHER external storage drive (I keep 2 other drives) also died. This just isn’t my week. So now I’ve also lost 40 GIG of music collected over the past 7 years as well as many software applications that I kept archived there, having long since misplaced the original installation CD’s.

Not a good week. I’d say I’m glad it’s Friday, but there really isn’t any such thing as Friday when you are self-employed… or as my roommate calls it, “self-sponsored”.

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