Man, I wish it were possible to somehow get the logs back from the Evo RP Tif and I had on GreatestJournal. 8( I even went to the e-mail address I had the notifs going to, but Yahoo purged everything before 2007, and the RP happened in 2004.

WHY DID YOU DIE, GREATESTJOURNAL? I wish I'd had the foresight to back everything up...

In somewhat related news, while looking for the old notifs, I got sidetracked by the old e-mails Tif had sent me in 2002/2003 (I put them in a save folder, so they survived the purge). We acted like a couple before we were even a couple. 8|

Today was a lazy day. I actually did a few useful things, though, like make dinner, but other than that... Yeah, it was pretty much ON MY BUTT ALL DAY. It was great. 8D

So here's a meme.

THE "i've always wanted to tell you" MEME

I hate religious 'debates'. Someone almost always resorts to some sort of bashing.

God, why am I so down today?

Iiii have a new livejournal layout! I only changed it about a month or so ago, but I wanted to go with something wasn't fandom-related, and I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it. I made a few changes, and there are still a few tweaks I'd like to do, but for the most part, I'm satisfied. With it I have a new mood theme! Whoo.

In other news, I've temporarily switched my browser to Google Chrome because Firefox has been eating up my resources like a mofo. The last time I used Chrome, my computer didn't seem to take to it very well, so I was back on FF within a day or two, but so far so good this time! I only wish they had a plugin that was equivalent to LJLogin. Fortunately, I've only been using idgiebay and attorney_at_lol lately, so I'm using the double browser trick for now. If anyone has any experience with making plugins, the person who made LJLogin says they have no problem with someone writing a version for Chrome, though they have no plans to do it themselves.

Well, time to go get dinner. Ciao~!

I know I redid my LJ layout recently, but I kind of want to redo it again. Hm...

In other news... Yeah, I dunno.

I want children.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE idgiebay WHEN...

...and that's all I really have to say. 8|;

Give it to me, baby.

ANON MEME

To make this entry less useless, an update on my external hard drive...

The Geek Squad could do nothing for me, other than tell me they could send the drive to their headquarters, at which point someone would assess the damage and call me to give me an estimate that could range from $250 to $1500. LMAO.

I was using the trial version of a recovery program, which was able to find all of my files and folders but couldn't transfer them anywhere because... it was a trial version. I'm thinking of buying it and doing the recovery myself, but I'm going to try one other thing. My mom suggested giving the drive to the guys that run our network at work and seeing if they can do the recovery, because they might do it for free. That would be ace. o3ob

If not... Well, I'm not going to let myself get upset about it anymore. There are a lot of irreplaceable things, like old artwork, but most of my art is up on DA. The only problem is I wouldn't have access to the PSD files, but... c'est la vie. I WILL GET THROUGH THIS.

Well, this sucks...

I was in a good mood all day. I was excited because I was going to (and did) take Phoenix off of hiatus, but now I'm just frustrated. My external hard drive just... stopped working. The part that kills me is that the data is still there; I can see that 50 GB of space is being used when I look at the drive's properties, yet when I actually open the drive, well... Maybe it's best if I just show a picture.

( SCREEN SHOT #1 )

I have no idea what that '
v' folder in the beginning is. When I click on it, I get an error, telling me the path is invalid.

( SCREEN SHOT #2 )

As you can see, 50.6 GB is being used. The few files and folders that are showing up are all 3 KB and below, so my data must still be there, right...? I think I'll take it somewhere tomorrow and see if the data can be recovered. As much as I pride myself on being technologically savvy, this is so obviously beyond me...

God, I hope it can be recovered. So many years of my life are on that stupid drive. Every single piece of art, every creative project in general... I know it was stupid of me not to have a backup. Believe me, I'm kicking myself over it.

If you can think of anything that might help in the meantime, I'm all ears.

...I am obsessed with Avatar.

I remember so many commercials from my childhood, but I'm not sure I can pick out a favorite. One that stands out in my mind is this Caramello one, circa 1990, because I still occasionally get the song stuck in my head. XD



There are a few others I remember every once in a while...

( More old commercials under here! )

...Okay, lunch break's over!