I'm still alive. I'll post soon.

The ordeal is final over, the replacement card is in the mail, anyone who knows what I am talking about can join me in a sigh of relief. *sigh* Ahh, so much better. If you don't have any idea what I'm going on about count yourself lucky and suffice it to say I really love dealing with the feds, as I'm sure you all do as well.

"Go back to sleep America, your government is in control." -Bill Hicks

Monday, early; deadline looming...

Music: (stops)
External hard drive: vrrrrrrr.. vrrrr.. klik..klik..KLICKKLICKKLICKKLICK... (silence)

Me: “Aw fux.”

A very brief inspection of the drive reveals, its hotter than hell.

Solution: Disassemble the enclosure, allow to cool for a few minutes and copy the files (about 100 gigs worth) to my internal hard disk, before it overheats again... which is much easier said than done.

When that failed after a gig or so, it was officially time for some elementary school nurse tech.



Problem solved (except for the fact the HD is trashed) but at least I saved the data.

My search for things to photograph has (inevitably) led to my wandering around the local cemetery, at night no less. Morbid, yeah a bit, but it also makes for very attractive images. Shame my batteries ran out so quickly.

Well, it looks like work may be making up for lost time, the next few weeks seem to hold a veritable mountain of backed up work. Hopefully it doesn't hit all at once. Busy is one thing, but frantic sucks. Otherwise things have been nice and quite around here, as usual.

Mood: mellow

A blown sidewall, a spare but no tools, an almost adequately helpful cop, a few hours of standing on the side of the road, and a disturbingly friendly pistol packing trucker... last night was not what I had expected it to be, but what ever is?

The moral: AAA is good, and don't ever forget your cellphone.

Mood: groggy

Honesty, its really nice out.

Thanks largely to the fact that many of our clients take vacations, August tends to be a slower month than most. Translation: Time Off! Without having work on Friday or today, I seem to have been given an impromptu mini-vacation.

Now, what to do?

Mood: content

People often talk of reoccurring dreams and the underlying meaning of them.

Ever since I was a child, I can only think of one such dream, its not even a full dream, just a little element that is often repeated. For different reasons, based on the context of the dream of course, I need to throw or hit something. It has ranged from just tossing a ball, all the way to bashing in a zombie's skull. When I try, feel like my arms are asleep or just not strong enough to get the job done. The ball falls two feet in front of me, the blow bounces off and the zombie eats my brain etc...

Now, I could analyze this dream finding feelings if inadequacy, impotence and so on. However, realistically I think its just because I like to sleep with my head resting on my arm.


Side note: O my gothic armaments.

Mood: contemplative

I just realized I was eating edamame (soybeans) and drinking Perrier, for breakfast... at 3pm. I don't know what that means, but its definitely funny.

Mood: lazy