For those of you who are unaware (that would be the majority of you), my hard drive gave up the ghost Friday morning. It just came back to me this morning.
The good news is, I managed to back up the most important things that hadn’t been recently backed up as the drive was in its death throes. The bad news is that it never occurred to me to back up my application data. Fortunately, we had backed that up in December when the laptop popped a resistor, so reconstructing Firefox has not been nearly as painful as it could have been.
Reconstructing my music collection, on the other hand…well, let’s just say we discovered that the folder containing one of my favorite artists hasn’t existed in a while. I was planning to re-rip both CDs anyway. Now I have an excuse.
I’m also in a losing battle with an allergic reaction, so this whole experience has been quite fun. I’ve decided for now to take a couple of days to make sure everything is up and running, and to allow myself time to adjust to my new OS. I am happy to say I am braving the wilds of Ubuntu! (Thankfully, I have a very patient roommate who tolerates my silly questions.)
The blogs will return next week. I’ll try to blog a little extra to make up for losing this week.






