Renewing the Feel, Panic, and relief

Well this last weekend I finally got a new computer desk. I have been wanting to for a while now. The other one was just taking to much space. My new one is more tall than anything. It only takes up a few feet though, which is nice.

Any ways. So I got the new desk on money to help with space and give my room a new feel for the most part. So I took all my crap off of the old one and got every thing ready to go. I gave my parents my old desk, because they were in the market for a new desk as well (theirs was about 17 years old). So, I got my new desk together and started getting every thing set up. It was very excited. Well, I got my Imac up and the network back up, but when I plugged in my external hard drive, nothing happened. I freaked out. The light on it was coming on and every thing. It was plugged in to the wall and directly into the computer. I tried every thing I knew to fix it, but nothing worked.

I called around to a few places about data recovery. You see my external drive is my back up drive and ITunes storage drive. So I lost every thing. All my music that I paid for and every thing else. My magic I luckily had backed up on a jump drive. The cheapest recover place was going to charge me 60 bucks an hour. Which isn't horrible, but I didn't want them to screw me and charge me for 8 hours. The other price I got was from a guy I know and he was going to charge me 89 bucks flat rate. That I was cool with.

Well, this morning I went to target and bought a new Hard drive to replace my old one. I got it home and out of the package and decided just for the heck of it to use the new cable on my old drive. Low and behold, it worked. I shortly there after found out that I had the wrong power supply plugged into my old drive. It was horrible. I felt like such an idiot. So it turns out I didn't need the new drive. But I will keep it. But now every thing is great. I am so happy. I got all my stuff back. Yay!!

Well Deserved Time Off.

Ah, I feel so refreshed. I have had the last four days off of work. It has been absolutely great. I think I deserved it to. It was my weekend off any ways. Where I work we rotate saturdays. Well because of that every other week if we have that saturday off, then we get that monday off. This gives us a three day weekend every other week. It is great. So this last week, I took a personal day on friday to give me a few days off. It was really nice.

My four days off gave my foot some time to heal. For those that don't know, I am in a walking cast on my right foot because it has been broken for 6 months. This was just recently discovered. But I haven't had to do a ton of walking. I stayed off my feet most the time. Except for the occasional shopping with my mother.

Now I have to start thinking about what I want to do for my vacation next year. I think I still only get 1 week, But I could be wrong. I know that I am going to Dallas, TX at the end of February for a magic convention. This should be fun. Conventions are always a blast. The sad thing is, I want to go to a tech convention this year, But I have no clue where any are. Oh well, Hopefully I will come up on one.

Well thats it for now. It is getting late and I still have to get through a chapter of my CSS book. Until next time.