My brain scrubbed clean
*09/20/06*
Still waiting. Boys just left, and I’m missing my computer. Missed it badly enough to call yesterday only to be told they were “still working on it” (which probably means they haven’t gotten to it yet). So I’m still in the dark about whether or not my data is intact.
AWWWWWW, SHIIIIIIIIIIT. Just got the call. Harddrive dead, data lost. A glimmer of hope, there are some websites that say they can recover lost data. Maybe its something Dan can do. Oh, shit. Well, I will get a new, bigger harddrive, but start from a tabula rasa. I should have it tonight, or tomorrow. I feel like I’m receiving my brain scrubbed clean.
09/21/06
Sigh. I just spent the last couple hours with my “new” computer, that is, the squeaky-clean drive. At least it seamlessly joined our wireless network so I can at least surf the net. I’m not finding the disks I used to install Word, though, and I need that to be able to use the program to make documents on that computer. I have no idea where to look for that disk; I’d have thought it would be with the other start-ups. So I’m bummed. I wanted to start writing in it right away; reclaim my experience of journaling in a setting I’m truly at home in.
So I ran a lot of errands today, some of them not so productive. Didn’t get a phone, but then again we probably can’t afford it anyway. Still, I did pick up some contacts for Connor, get my coffee people treat, and the computer, as well as an exercise ball for Connor (which he popped with a pencil: “I wanted to see what would happen.”). In the process forgot to take the DVD back to Blockbuster. I had the box but the disk is still in our player. I stopped over at Dan’s, and he said he thought that my data may be recoverable. I’m certainly not going to want all of it; just my Project Document and my 50th year diary. My pictures would be nice, too. And it looks like we’re talking at least $600 to get a minimal amount. So close, yet so far from being able to savor my laptop writing experience.
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