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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Matt-Man in the Shite Storm

I would say Hail and well met...but not today

Things have decided to jump on me all at once. I am not in a mood for typing but I do feel the need to tell people what is going on. So in a nutshell...

Terri's dog Jackson bit her again yesterday, a totally unprovoked attack. There was little choice but to put Jackson down. NOT A GOOD DAY!

Ben has informed me that the Matt-comp 5000 has a bad hard drive and it will run close to 100 dollars (not counting rebates) to fix. Ben since you seem to read this and since I will not be home anytime soon as I am keeping Terri sane I will ask you here and feel free to answer. I assume the answer is yes but here goes nothing. Is all the info on the HD gone?

There are some other things but those are kind of personal and private, not for sharing here. All in all let me just say that if anything else wants to kick me in the nads...Feel free! If anything out there thinks that I am giving up or going to get totally self focused and depressed......


HA! NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!

Yes things suck and I am in a pit of sorrow and pain right now. Yes I have never really felt worse in my life. Hell I just watched my bestest buddy of a dog be put down, can it get any worse then that? But I am not giving up.

Things change in time. Nothing stays the same. For everything there is a season. I waited for 36 years to find the one person that I could truly love and who loved me back. And guess what...I found her! So if that can happen then anything else can happen as well. It is just a matter of time and being patient whilst everything falls into place.

Ben I don't have the cash right now, I might soon. When I do we are going to go shopping for the HD. I also want to look into somekind of back up since there were a large number of really important files on there pertaining to projects for games and the like. I can't have this happen again.

I won't be back in town untill probably this weekend. I believe Terri is still coming down Saturday and as such I may just stay and come home with her. I know that this fouls up Fading Suns, unless you can play without me Ben at least for one session. It also crimps Star Wars, sorry but I have to be here for her right now.

So all in all I am out of the loop. My cel still works so if you call I can call back on her house phone. As long as I am here I have acess to her computer and can answer emails and comments on here. I will see all on Saturday if not sooner.

May the Force be with you

Excelsior!!!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yo, Matt,

How big a hard drive do you need? You can get a 40GB for $26 here: http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_drives/2119-1.htm

Or a 250GB for $82.99 here: http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_drives/762994-1.htm

And anything in between. Those HDs don't have shipping attached.

Also, don't pitch or break the old HD, it probably has some bad sectors, but I have the equipment to recover the data. If you keep the old HD somewhere dry and in a static proof bag (your new HD will come with one) it'll last quite a while. There's a few solutions here as well, depending on how fucked the drive is, it might be possible to read from it while booting from the new HD. DON'T THROW IT AWAY OR BREAK IT!

I'm always willing to give a hand, bro.

JOE "Bolt of Happy Lightening in an Otherwise Cloudy Day" Wolz

Anonymous said...

It's understandable, no worries. Just as long as you are still going to Gen Con!!!

Miles

Anonymous said...

Matt,
If you can wait a week or so, I may have a FREE HD you can have. It's a 40GB EIDE or ATA (not sure which just yet, but the same interface, nonetheless).

I'll know more on Saturday.

On a side note, I thought you might like to see some of the starships I've been working on over the last year or so. I posted them under the "Artwork" section on my blog:
http://www.harshrealities.info/ben

Ben said...

The drive has more then a couple of bad sectors. Its not actually being recognized by BIOS or the computer anymore as existing (Though this is a bit sporadic).

More or less, the data's gone. If someone has the tools to perform a recovery on a more or less dead drive then it can be done, but generally this type of recovery is expensive.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Ben, I have an imager. I got the equipment to recover the stuff from that HD. I've done this before.
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Matt, make sure you don't break, molest, orotherwise destroy that busted HD.

Gimme a call and I'll take care of it.