for those wondering….
For those wondering what hole I’ve fallen into, it’s called the Hole of Technological Chaos. In addition to the massive workload I’m trying to shoulder right now, my computer got zapped right in the middle of rebooting and killed the part of my hard drive that my operating system was on. The good news is that none of my project files were lost! (phew) The bad news is that I’ve had to get a new drive (and, finally, a battery backup UPS device), and reinstall everything, from the ground up.
I’ve spent about 50 hours in the last four days on restoring my system, and trying to get various projects done in the time between reinstalling bits of software and hardware. I hadn’t really appreciated how many applications I actually use!! This is really taking forever….
I’m trying to look at this in the most positive light possible. For instance, I’m very happy to be running on a clean OS install. My boot time is about 1/4 what it used to be, and I think there is some improvement on runtime. Another plus is finally having a UPS device. I won’t have to worry about this anymore! Finally, I’m in a better position with my hard drive. I’ve replaced an old ATA100 40GB hard drive with a S-ATA 320GB hard drive. 40 gigs to 320 gigs is one heck of a nice change. Plus since I’m on serial ATA instead of parallel ATA, the drive is a lot faster than normal.
As for my cartoons…. I don’t know if I will ever get caught up with those at this point. This might be the end of TTTN.