trauma / talisman / writing

[oiran]

My trauma is, I know, a lesser trauma in the scheme of things. There have been much bigger traumas happening all around me for the last week, so I should be thankful that this is mine.

But.

Oh god.

My big hard drive? Dead. ~30G worth of my life [/dramaqueen] currently unavailable, possibly permanently. I can't even stand to list all the treasures that are now MIA. Well, they're treasures to me, anyway. Fuckity.

Mr. Glove says, "I thought I told you to back your files up."

Me: "That's what I did. To the BIG HARD DRIVE."

It never occurred to me to burn backups to CDs. Because I am old and thus they represent movies and music to me, not data. Oh god oh god oh god. This better be fixable or I'm going to seethe with rage until my heart pops. Which I guess isn't that big a punishment for the universe, after all. I'll have to think of another way to make the universe pay...

In other news: Talisman! Whoo! I love Lex! And...I thought it was funny how the names are now Nah-mahn and Seg-eeth instead of Newman (from Seinfeld) and Saget (as in Bob). It sounds more made up, yet less laughable. The Lex/Lana "pure of heart" speech was pretty gaggy, but we haven't been forcefed Lanalove recently, so I suppose I can just ignore it and move on. I also enjoyed the healing hands of Saint Bo, the Vessel. I'm getting this mental image of a frustrated Jor-El shaking his head and saying, "Dammit! I entrust these bumpkins with my only child, and they let him play with knives!"

the writing part of this post: Anyone want to beta an Ai no Kusabi story? I'm going to post it with an overview of the vid, and I'll include that with the beta file, though I'd love it if someone who's actually seen the vid was interested. Incentive: it's pornalicious. Maybe incentive/maybe not: it's technically non-con in parts. I'm going to be done later tonight, or maybe tomorrow. It doesn't have to be a hardcore beta - basically, I just want someone to read it over and tell me if it makes sense in its own little universe (as explained by me, at any rate).

Comments

[tigress35.livejournal.com]

*hugs* on the hard drive. I'm currently dealing with a hard drive crashing on a school project (I don't own the drive nor the contents on it, but I have to make it work again if I want a grade) and it sucks a whole whole lot. Hopefully yours will work out better than mine!

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Well, so far, it's bad news. But Mr. Glove is a computer person and knows tons of computer people, and hopefully someone can recover my data so that I can burn it all to CDs. I can't believe I was so stupid to not do that to begin with.

I am trying to stay hopeful, because my only other option is to kill myself and everyone around me.

[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

Hardrive trauma is the worst. I back mine up all the time now since the last loss.

I blew out a tire on my car tonight. Also traumatic.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

It's like losing a good chunk of that tiny portion of my brain that I actually use. No, wait. That's a shitty analogy, as it implies that my hard drive is unimportant (with the added negative of somehow insinuating that my brain is small, too).

But it sucks.

However, you are some sort of superhero with your tire jack action.

[stone-princess.livejournal.com]

I'm no superhero.

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

This might not help you any since I suck at beta readings but I’d like to read your AnK story. Especially since you mention it’s pornalicious.

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

As always with me, it's taking longer than I thought to finalize it. But I'll send it along when I'm done just for your thoughts.

[writerlibrarian]

{{{{{{velvetglove}}}}}}}

Hard drive failure is the worst. Especially if there is no warning. I had one (I call it the great windows disaster of december 2002; I had to reformat the disk) I lost everything. I only had back up of a few things (lost all my sound files from my Herk fandom; that hurt I never could find them again; and my pictures files of Highlander).

Now I know better. I copy on CD every other month even if it's a pain. The hard disk died finally in december of last year but I had some warning signs. That doesn't happen often.

Hope you can get back whatever you can. Good luck.

Chantal

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I feel so stupid, because when I got this hard drive (it's an external to my laptop), I also got a CD/DVD burner and immediately copied about half our CD collection and burned a ton of CDs and was very giddy about the whole disc-burning thing...but I associate CDs with music and video and didn't think of it as a data storage medium. So it never even occurred to me to burn my documents and images to a disc. See, the big drive was where I backed up to. Oy.

I have prayed to the computer gods (demons?) and have promised I'll burn everything to CD if they'll just let me have my data back.

[paddyg.livejournal.com]

Never seen AnK, to my deep and bitter dismay, but I've read several fics and I'm an anime addict/grammar nazi. If you get no better offers, I'd be happy to read your story. The pornier, the better.

And good luck with that hard drive problem. Every time I read about this, I write myself a note to back-up my hard drive onto CDs. Have I done it yet? No. Will I do it now? Hope so. Wishing you miracles for your computer!

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

BACK YOUR COMPUTER UP!!!!

And I'm still fidgeting with the story, as is my usual pattern. I'll be sending it to you soon, though, I hope.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Dude, that totally sucks about your hard drive. *crosses fingers*

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

It completely sucks. I am pretending it might be salvageable still, because (as you know) I'm already a nervous mess about other issues, so this one will just have to wait.

[anitac588.livejournal.com]

Oy, harddrive troubles are the worst. My computer is being formatted b/c it was giving me too much trouble. Even with (double) backup on CDs I am still not sure I have everything.
Hope yours can still be saved. OH and :
Mr. Glove says, "I thought I told you to back your files up."
Me: "That's what I did. To the BIG HARD DRIVE." Hee, Mr. Glove, be more exact next time, ;-).

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Mr. Glove!

I really wish I could blame this on him not giving more specific instructions ;)

I used to have to do a tape backup for work every night, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the "removable media" concept. I just never thought about CDs that way. Grrr...

[meret.livejournal.com]

Yeowch! I hope you can recover your data!

[velvetglove.livejournal.com]

I do, too! I'm pretending that all hope is not lost because...well, because the alternative is just a little too much for me to contemplate at the moment ;)