i woke up this morning to the local mix station playing an acoustic version of matchbox twenty’s “if you’re gone” that they recorded when rob thomas and adam gaynor were in their studio yesterday. happy sigh. it sounded awesome; what i wouldn’t give to have been there! i got in to work and immediately figured out how to connect to the radio station via the internet, because a few minutes ago they played the other performance from yesterday–an acoustic version of “disease.” it was fantastic. i’m not the type of person that waxes poetic and gets all googly-eyed over some band, but matchbox twenty comes close to making me do just that.
the flight mechanics lab computers have been barfing all over me the past two days. here’s hoping they don’t crash today, or i won’t really have much to do…
well, i didn’t end up going to the grocery store last night, so instead of salmon i had spiced couscous and hamburger, which i know sounds very very odd, but tastes good to me (i discovered it one night when i was getting rid of leftovers). perhaps there are some of my dad’s weird eating habits in me after all. if i start eating green bean soup i’ll know that i’m really in trouble. “one can green beans. one can tomato soup. heat it. eat it. yum!”
i’ll have to go to the store today or tomorrow. i just don’t like going to the grocery store very much, so i always procrastinate. but my list is getting pretty long and it’s been three weeks, so…yeah.
last night i made a last-gasp effort to save my slave hard drive, which died about a month and a half ago. i had gone online to fill out the warranty form from western digital when i saw a little statement saying to please thoroughly check the drive before sending it back to them because they get many returned drives that are actually still in working order. so i downloaded their diagnostic software and hooked the previously dead hard drive back up and voila! it worked. the diagnostic ran and came back and said nothing is wrong with the drive. cool, right? their program magically resurrected my hard drive from the dead!!
well, that was until i tried to use the drive. while it was well enough to let me copy some of the data and mp3s i thought i’d lost onto my good (but smaller) hard drive, it definitely was not well enough to be written to. every time i tried, the computer froze and eventually gave me “cannot write to drive d” on the blue screen of death. so it can be copied from, but not written to. their diagnostic tool sucks!
anyway, long story short, i am sending them their dumb drive back and i am actually quite annoyed, as the drive is only 6 months old and has failed. stupid computer.
in the meantime, the computers here at work aren’t dying at the moment, so i’d better take advantage.
