Legend of the Corsair

Had a bit of a "moment" a few hours ago when, upon arriving home with a brand new CD (Burl Ives, all songs from RTRNR) I found myself overwrought by the fact that the CD/DVD drive on my iBook ATE! the CD and it is now stuck in there. I was so upset, because I realized that I was probably going to have to replace my beloved laptop. It lasted so long I'd thought it was going to be around a lot longer. But, no. It was not to be. The first sign of decay was finding a crack in the frame holding the screen in the upper right corner at least a year ago.

After crabbyolbastard talked me in from the ledge...

He convinced me that it wasn't worth it to go and spend $900 (minimum) on a new MAC. As a matter of fact, he convinced me that I was more than ready to get myself set up on a sweet Ubuntu system and that he just so happened to have one on a very nicely tarted up wide screen monitor laptop. Yep.

That's what I am writing this post on right now.

Tomorrow, or over the course of this next week, I'm going to have to start transferring stuff over from the old machine. Documents, bookmarks, QIF file and so forth. Yep. There was bound to be a little more drawing out of the pain of saying goodbye to the old friend that got me through so many years of school work.

I don't know how I'm going to recover the darn CD either.

You know I got on the wireless and decided to post with the new little machina! I'm getting used to the smaller sized keyboard and different feel to the keys (harder depression force than with the mac).

Wheeeee!

I had my whole system crash/freeze/self-destruct. That's right, my MAC went boom. ::sigh:: It has been a very difficult day, and the weekend is just starting to warm up. I can't find all of my application disks (especially my PALM OS for my Treo 600, and the way my sys crashed I have to re-install from the CD and not from the online site.) Blech.


WAAAAAHHHHHHH!

Anybody know where I can get a copy of the above mentioned CD? ::hopeful look::

Well, I'll probably remain incommunicado for a little while longer. At least I didn't lose everything - I had backups of a lot of things (assorted files) on either the server or external HD.


WAAAAHHHHHH!