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baby shower, geek stuff
Apr. 19th, 2007 09:25 pmBaby shower today at work! Very exciting, very nice, tasty food and lovely gifts! M left work early to attend, too. The only bad part was that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starrflowerr wasn't able to be there, although I more than understood--she's quite sick. There was a surprising (hehe) ducky theme, and I loved it all. So much cuteness!
Remember how I talked about M's broken computer? I ordered him a new hard drive, monster-sized, and it arrived today. He plugs it up, installs Windows, and I take over. We got to a certain point and then went out for a celebratory dinner (unofficially 35 weeks today, and baby shower, and just general niceness of the whole life thing ) We talked of computers, and what he could have lost. We knew that his C drive was gone, and one other unknown partition. Was it D, which contains programs? That would be vaguely inconvenient but not dreadful. Was it F, which contained downloaded files? Again with the inconvenience but probably nothing irreplaceable. Or would it be E, which contains every file he has ever used? Anyway, I pointed out that the error message was somewhat vague, and there was a theoretical chance that he could plug in the broken drive since we now had the thing running to see if we could copy everything over (say, the OS had really messed itself up but it could still be read.) And guess what! It worked! I don't know how the whole thing will turn out (we are formatting the large drive and backing up the data--it was E, by the way and of course.) but it looks like M has snookered me again. He claims that he tested it before declaring it broken. I think he's lying. Seriously, there is some sort of an issue going on but we don't know exactly what it is. The important thing seems to be that we're getting his data, which we thought we had lost. It's tough, this geek stuff. I could have written more about it and explained what it is that we tried and suspected and have planned, because we are very interested in that sort of thing. However, we're almost the only ones so I will leave one paragraph to cover it.
I put new sheets on the bed and showered before going there last night, and I finally got a good night of sleep! I woke up only twice, and both times it was great to come back to bed. It does seem like I am now greedy, and need more more more. Here's hoping that night two is just as nice as night one. I think I'll go find out.
starrflowerr wasn't able to be there, although I more than understood--she's quite sick. There was a surprising (hehe) ducky theme, and I loved it all. So much cuteness! Remember how I talked about M's broken computer? I ordered him a new hard drive, monster-sized, and it arrived today. He plugs it up, installs Windows, and I take over. We got to a certain point and then went out for a celebratory dinner (unofficially 35 weeks today, and baby shower, and just general niceness of the whole life thing ) We talked of computers, and what he could have lost. We knew that his C drive was gone, and one other unknown partition. Was it D, which contains programs? That would be vaguely inconvenient but not dreadful. Was it F, which contained downloaded files? Again with the inconvenience but probably nothing irreplaceable. Or would it be E, which contains every file he has ever used? Anyway, I pointed out that the error message was somewhat vague, and there was a theoretical chance that he could plug in the broken drive since we now had the thing running to see if we could copy everything over (say, the OS had really messed itself up but it could still be read.) And guess what! It worked! I don't know how the whole thing will turn out (we are formatting the large drive and backing up the data--it was E, by the way and of course.) but it looks like M has snookered me again. He claims that he tested it before declaring it broken. I think he's lying. Seriously, there is some sort of an issue going on but we don't know exactly what it is. The important thing seems to be that we're getting his data, which we thought we had lost. It's tough, this geek stuff. I could have written more about it and explained what it is that we tried and suspected and have planned, because we are very interested in that sort of thing. However, we're almost the only ones so I will leave one paragraph to cover it.
I put new sheets on the bed and showered before going there last night, and I finally got a good night of sleep! I woke up only twice, and both times it was great to come back to bed. It does seem like I am now greedy, and need more more more. Here's hoping that night two is just as nice as night one. I think I'll go find out.
