Beavis, this sucks more than anything that has ever sucked before. Heheh…
If the title of this entry isn’t any indication, then let me decode it for you:
I am pissed to the utmost highest levels of pissivity and I am in an enormous, steaming cowdung shit of a mood. Well, actually I’m not that mad anymore. I’m just drained and feeling a little loopy, as in off the mark, as in 2 cans short of a six-pack.
Long story short, I attempted to upgrade my OS and my PC wasn’t having it. There isn’t enough room on the Internet for me to recount everything that went down. But here’s the result of everything that happened: I didn’t back my shit up before the big meltdown, so I am basically starting fresh. Those hot new layouts I’ve been working on for me and Sunray? Gone. I can recreate them in PhotoShop, but then I’d have to reinstall Photoshop. Small potatoes. Any mp3 I’ve ever downloaded is gone, except for the stuff I ended up burning. I suppose the upside to this is that the RIAA has no proof for the most part. The novels I’ve been working on. Gone. I’m not as upset about this as I should be. Most of it was a bunch of crap anyway. A lesson I learned a while ago is that anything worth remembering will be retained, I think I got that from Stephen King or somebody. And at least someone hasn’t had the opportunity to steal my shit. Any software that I downloaded that I had to pay for? Gone. I suppose this pisses me off the most, but I am sure there’s a way around that to get them back. Basically, I don’t have nothing on my PC except for the stuff that was on it when it was first purchased. 3 years of crap has been deleted, including viruses (I suppose that’s the good part).
In the end, I went through all this shit (my PC did everything but bleed all over my floor) only to learn that I really had no business trying to upgrade my OS in the first place. So I’m still on ’98. I will be on ’98 until I am able to just buy a new PC altogether and that really won’t be happening anytime soon.
If you have any compassion for what I just went through, just say something in the vein of “Welcome back” or “Lesson learned”. I can’t really bear to have anyone tell me that I should’ve backed everything up because the idea at this point is null and utterly ridiculous. My pet peeve is people telling me what I could’ve or should’ve done. It’s sooooo after the fact. (Lesson learned) Another thing to keep in mind is that it will take a while for me to get around to my typical busness of adding things to this website other than entries. I have to re-download my FTP program as well. I guess what I am basically trying to say is don’t ask for shit. Really. It would totally insensitive for anyone to expect me to pretty up this site at anything other than my own comfortable pace, including my hostee’s blog.
In closing, I’m glad I was missed. It’s good to be missed. I like it. But now we can get back to the business of being in business.
Later kiddles.
Brother I recently went through a similar scenario, so basically I’m still beating my head against the wall. I second the “Lesson Learned” spiel. I just wish I could have learned it another way.
*Sighs*
If I had dollar for everytime I lost something during an upgrade, I would be rich. Ok, maybe not, but its almost part of the teritory. At least you landed back on your feet. Its not always bad starting fresh.
Keep yo head up and welcome back!
Welcome back! I’ll get some CDs out to you in the mail as soon as I get some postage.
Man, I am soooo sorry. My heart ached just reading that.
Seriously- I just wanna give you a hug. That shit DOES suck man
Good to see you are back Nova. I was getting worried about you.
Welcome back. Lesson learned.
Welcome back Papi. Knock da fuck out MT for your new design.
Le sigh. At least you’re back, right?
welcome back,i sure hate that all your stuff is gone i know that is a &$++*((^^^&&&& pain in the @$$, i need to upgrade my OS but i’ma keep ’98 on here until i can get a brand new pc.
on my way to cop those questions before this post.
Boy am I glad you told me not to say you shoulda backed your shit up..Whew! You woulda been MAD at me. *lol* But hey, as far as the programs you lost that you actually paid for, all you should have to do is go to their site and reinstall it. Usually if you’ve purchased it, you should be able to just enter your info and get a new copy. I may be wrong though. I’m just curious as to why you shouldn’t have been updating your OS in the first place. Not enough memory? Anyway, I’m HELLA glad your back! (I know, I’m late as hell with this) Get on messenger so we can chat it up.
P.S. As funny as you are, you don’t even need a fancy layout. Just reading your ish is enough. See..people like me who aint got shit to say are the ones who need the fancy layouts. I gotta have SOMETHING for yall to come to..lol. Take your time, luv.