Thursday Thirteen #51 | Suspension of Disbelief

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Thirteen Things about LINDSEY

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1. I had an amazing T13 of quizzes all ready to go on my computer for last week . . . until the crash. So last week’s T13 didn’t happen. Apologies. Please love me anyways.

2. Oh the crash. Here’s the deal. For that graduate program that I started last week (seems like last year), we get new computers. As you know, I went to undergrad at Wake Forest, and all the students receive laptops. Well, Wake Forest graduate students get the same deal, though the computers are very different (more on that in a minute). I was excited to get a new computer, blah blah, the first thing I did when I got home was start working on transferring.

3. Get the computer home, install all the programs on it, transfer my email and Firefox settings. All that’s left is my actual files - Word documents, pictures, all the files from MagicMouth, the things I’ve been working on for my website, etc. A total of many many GBs. Big transfer.

4. I decide that life will be easier if instead of saving to DVDs or my external hard drive that I just take the hard drive out of my old computer and with a USB connect it to the new computer and just directly transfer the files. I’ve done this before, so I’m not too worried.

5. I hook it up to the new computer, and it doesn’t recognize the drive. At this point, I’m mildly annoyed. I’m gonna have to do this the hard way. I put the hard drive back into the old computer.

6. OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

7. I panic. I try absolutely everything I can think of to get the stupid thing to work. I take it in to the IT dept at school, and they try everything that they can think of. The drive is corrupt, completely unrestorable, crashing other computers . . . it’s dead.

8. So they say they’ll get me a new drive, but that doesn’t restore any of my data. My data is gone.

9. Luckily, I have a backup from May back when the thing crashed before (they think the problems were related), so I have a partial backup. Lost some files for the company and for my websites, so that super sucks, but other than that, I can manage.

10. So that’s what I’ve been up to. Trying to rebuild. And get acclimated into this program - it’s the hardest school I’ve had in my life. You’ll hear more this weekend.

11. Don’t forget to stop by on Friday for the Blog Tour of Homes, and this weekend please sponsor me for Blogathon 2006 - I’m blogging for breast cancer!!!

12.

Your EQ is 140

50 or less: Thanks for answering honestly. Now get yourself a shrink, quick!
51-70: When it comes to understanding human emotions, you’d have better luck understanding Chinese.
71-90: You’ve got more emotional intelligence than the average frat boy. Barely.
91-110: You’re average. It’s easy to predict how you’ll react to things. But anyone could have guessed that.
111-130: You usually have it going on emotionally, but roadblocks tend to land you on your butt.
131-150: You are remarkable when it comes to relating with others. Only the biggest losers get under your skin.
150+: Two possibilities - you’ve either out “Dr. Phil-ed” Dr. Phil… or you’re a dirty liar.

What’s Your EQ (Emotional Intelligence Quotient)?

13. This is too good to pass up. I’ve been playing The Game for about 2 years now, and I come to find that it’s on Wikipedia. Priceless. Also check out www.losethegame.com. Add yourself to the family tree - just remember: your birthday is when you found out about the game, not your actual birthday. Enjoy ;-)!

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20 Responses to “Thursday Thirteen #51”

Something's Missing Says: July 27th, 2006 at 7:28 am
Hey — very cute blog — found you via TT. Sorry for your computer problems — I *hate* them!

My My Thursday Thirteen is up!

Happy Thursday!

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modern princess Says: July 27th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Oh man, that totally stinks. Sorry about the hard drive. Glad you have a fairly recent back up as it could be worse, I once had a friend who had never backed up anything in her life. “Doh!”

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Kate Says: July 27th, 2006 at 8:34 am
Sorry about the computer crankyness. Knock wood….mine has been fine so far but I feel your pain.

Good 13!

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Raggedy Says: July 27th, 2006 at 8:44 am
Good List!
Rah Rah Rah on the blogathon…
Have a wonderful Thursday!
My TT is up

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carmen Says: July 27th, 2006 at 10:14 am
What did we ever do before computers? We changed typewriter ribbons. They never crashed. But admittedly, I’m addicted!

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meredith Says: July 27th, 2006 at 12:25 pm
Nothing can make you feel more helpless than computer problems.

Happy TT. Mine is up,too.

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Nancy Says: July 27th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
That is so Mercury Retrograde to lose your computer files. Next week will be better. Promise.

happy TT!

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Mysterious Lady Says: July 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Sorry about your puters!

Happy Thursday!

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YellowRose Says: July 27th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Computer problems are the most annoying problems there are!! Glad you got things worked out.

Happy Thursday!

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Skittles Says: July 27th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
I am sorry about your comp. I know loosing data upsets me a lot. Hope you have a great weekend.

Thanks for visiting my blog today. Yes I finally got up and did dishes and made that 2 huge cups of coffee with some flavor of creamer in it.

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tbirdonawire Says: July 27th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
I don’t keep good backups and I know one of these days this is going to happen to me.

Note to self….
Get your hard drive backed up!!

Good luck at school!

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NOLADawn Says: July 27th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Yikes! I would cry for days if I lost everything… thanks for reminding me to back up my stuff soon
Thanks for visiting my TT.

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Shannon Says: July 27th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Great blog.

Sorry about the computer.

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cat Says: July 27th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
I’m terribly sorry about the trouble your computer’s been giving you! Losing EVERYTHING on your hard drive? EEK! Thank the gods for the back up disk from May. Thank you for visiting my TT today. I hope your laptop is up and running asap!

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Cindi Says: July 27th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
Oh the saga of computer problems. We can oh so relate to that nightmare. Ours happened when our house was hit by lightening two summers ago. Even though puters were off, several parts and pieces, and one computer go poof. Oh it was a sad day.

Hope it all comes out in the wash.

Cindi

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GreekGoddess Says: July 28th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
happy blogathon tomorrow.. I’m doing it too Happy TT

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mama kelly Says: July 28th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
OMGs — Im sorry for the crash and all the lost data — at least you had a backup but still you lost months of stuff

good luck in your continuing education

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MamaDuck Says: July 28th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Agh, I hate that, I need to back everything up on here again too. Happy T13 a little late, sorry, just not enough time in the day to visit everyone yesterday ;).

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Denise Says: July 30th, 2006 at 11:02 am
Thanks for stopping by last Thursday. Sorry for not posting sooner, we were on vacation and I’m just now getting caught up! Bummer about your data - at least you had a partial backup, but it still stinks!

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