This past week hasn’t been all that much fun, to say the least. I had a slight scare when my mom informed me that she was going in for a cardiac surgical procedure. It went well and she’s fine. They didn’t find anything. I just wish she’d told me prior to 10pm the night before the procedure.
I thought I was done with stress for the week after that, but no. Sadly, Murphy came for a visit and crashed my PC. My latest backup is about a week old, so it’s not crippling per se but the weeks’ school work was there. So, I had to start over on the project after having completed 95% or more of it. Other than the school work, the only thing I’m really missing is my email.
I worked over the weekend to try to recover the machine, but it’s not meant to be (at least not yet). It’s a motherboard issue. This weekend, I’ll decide whether to continue troubleshooting or simply transplant the drives into another machine. I built that machine over four years ago. It’s been through a lot. Perhaps it’s ready for retirement. I would have already transplanted the drives, but that machine is my only one that can handle SATA drives in a Raid array. Oh well. On the bright side, I can now convince my wife that it’s time for me to build a new one!
Oh wait. . . I’ll have to build it with hardware that will support XP. I refuse to go to Vista under any circumstance. Barring that, it looks like a new iMAC is in my future. Microsoft has pissed me off one too many times of late anyway.
I’ll post something relevant to class at some point this week.
