My laptops harddrive died... entirely. i had an expert look at it, and he said that it would be very expensive to get the information back. So... I have offically lost all the writing from the purchase of the laptop in March 2008 to this date.

All my Meet the Robinsons work. All my Deus Ex work, All my original work, and things i probably don't even remember doing.

There will be no posting of Deus Ex: After Illumination, unless my partner goes log diving for an evening and pulls it all. Over 200 hundred pages, I'm guessing, of work so far. Gone. poof, buh-bye. I should have backed it up to my external, but i thought... i was foolish and thought it would last. the only thing that lasted was the main part, the body... the brain... the brain dies. Why does the body outlive the brain like that?

Luckily, the expert i talked to said if I picked up a new harddrive, he would install any operating system I wanted. Erg.. technically, he wasn't an expert, but in school learning about computers, and I figured: what could it hurt? He would learn something, and he could ask his teachers and the like for their opinion, and I would get an answer that satisfied me. I figure: just need a new drive? what could it hurt? I would have my laptop back, and then I could just install everything, and start out the right way with a fully protected and backed-up system.

I got used to Vista, it was nice. I'm afraid to try Win7... XP-home is currently on this computer and it's pretty solid. I might go back to Vista.

LUCKILY! (i just realized) All my art-projects that have been on hold indefinitly were backed up, along with all my (22gigs of) music. With Winter coming on, and my going permanently to third shift at the end of November, I should be drawing more.

But I'm gonna go... got things to take care of.