{"id":3743,"date":"2006-02-09T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3743"},"modified":"2020-12-31T16:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:50:22","slug":"stop-bothering-me-kid-your-forehead-slopes-transmetal-megatron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3743","title":{"rendered":"Stop bothering me, kid, your forehead slopes. – Transmetal Megatron"},"content":{"rendered":"

You remember back in December, when I was buying ‘s Yule present, that I ripped the sleeve of my trench coat the day that I got it back from ? Well, the other day I popped a button off of it on the way out of the bus. That means that there’s a ripped sleeve, on the seam, and two buttons missing.<\/lj><\/lj><\/p>\n

My poor armor.<\/p>\n

A week or so before that, I’d lost my keys. The dragon-clip-thing that I’d gotten from had just fallen off of my belt loop.<\/lj><\/p>\n

A few days ago, I was sitting in Theio’s, formatting the iBook, and had everything backed up to my USB jumpdrive. I had it and the headphones (couldn’t listen to music on the laptop while it’s formatting) up on a little wooden ledge next to the booth. I got up to leave, and left the jump drive and headphones there.<\/p>\n

I had never copied the files back from the jumpdrive to the iBook.<\/p>\n

All of my writing – gone.
\nAll of my saved photos – gone.
\nAll of my electronic notes and papers since I’ve come back to school – gone.
\nAll of my work timesheets and logs – gone.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I was a wee bit upset. But there is always light at the end of the tunnel. One can always decide to let these things go and move on. Re-build and pull in.<\/p>\n

I have a replacement house key and car key on a new clip on my belt loop. It’s the same color as the dragon clip was, and my mini-MagLite is.<\/p>\n

I have pulled as many of my school notes from outgoing emails as I can. Luckily, I am often requested to share my notes.<\/p>\n

I have pulled the most recent novel revision that I can from the outgoing email I sent to Huggy and Emily. The first seven issues of Steven scripts can be gotten from the Yahoo!Groups site. Most of the other writing exists in its original, hand-written, hard copy form at home.<\/p>\n

Best of all, there’s a hard drive from a dead desktop sitting at home that has all of my pre-Christmas writing on it.<\/p>\n

Casualties:
\n– Little City Mafia (can be re-typed from handwritten original)
\n– A few chapter intros to the novel revision.
\n– A paper on the Nacirema for my Rituals class.
\n– My Islam notes.
\n– One free (legal) mp3 download, that I think I can get again.<\/p>\n

Not as bad as it once was, and easily moved forward from. Now, why does this stuff come in cycles? What does it mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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