Sailor Soldier of Love and Justice

So my hard drive died yesterday right after we returned from the computer store. My computer is very inconsiderate.

I had not backed up my computer since before the cruise, so I was upset about potentially losing all those pictures. Well, sorta losing. The raws are all still on my camera, and the ones I nicely cropped are all on flickr, but it would have been a pain to have to download them all back onto my computer later.

Ben did some magic with an ubuntu live cd and is now transferring all the files to the network so we can replace the hard drive. Some of the files aren't making it, probably because the server is barely limping along, but most of what I'm losing are pictures that I uploaded to flickr. So that's not too bad. Five or six pictures instead of a hundred? I can live with that.

To thank him, I made ben a 5 minute chocolate cake drizzled in warm chocolate syrup. :)

In other news, we saw kick-ass today. It was ok. About half the movie was cool action stuff and the other half was embarrassing teenager stuff. If it was just the action, I would have liked it a lot better. I spent a lot of time hiding my face being embarrassed for the characters. When the movie was over, my face hurt from all the blushing. Hit-Girl was cool though. In a creepy way.

I have installed TWO programs on my computer all on my own! :D Yay me!

And my trip to the comic book store was a fantastic success.

In other news, bad game ideas make me very sad inside.

It's a good thing I have a cute dog and a cute boyfriend to help me forget terrible things like that.

Behold! For I type from the computer I built myself!!!!

Ben bought all the parts for me and told me how to assemble them. Then he just watched to make sure I didn't break anything. I was super super careful.

Then I installed linux! All by myself! It was easy. Though, for a short while I thought I had messed up the wireless somehow. Turns out our network wasn't set up right, so it wasn't me. Yay!

There's still some stuff I want to fiddle with to get it all just as I like, but I did all the hard stuff already. So behold my might! I win all the geek points!

My dog is wearing a Hawaiian shirt and that makes me incredibly happy.

I am sleepy, but I should make a quick update. Work was weird because there was so little stuff for me to do that I was actually filing papers for one of their other companies. Also, I have been given a large pile of books to read. Oh, but I finally finished that website. When it is done I shall post a link and everyone will have to tell me how flawless the spelling and grammar is.

After work, ben and I went to the pina's to pick up stuff that my mom mailed to me. I expected several boxes but it turned out to be only one. Grrrr, I want my computer! I think she is holding it hostage. She says suspicious things like "when you come to visit, MAYBE you can take it back with you." *twtich* MAYBE? She also claims I never asked for the computer. And that she didn't know where it was. I pointed out that the COMPUTER was in the COMPUTER room.

I am sleeping and losing the ability to type well.

Ben and I watched Hero when we got home. I found it to be very slow. I never made it to the end. Maybe I'll watch the last scene, just to see what happens.

Driving ben to work was insane. I nit nearly every red light. I'm thinking of writing to the transportation people and pointing out that when the lights are set up that poorly it makes even the best cars incredibly fuel inefficient. I hate wasting all that gas stopping and starting for every light.

Tomorrow ben has a dentist appointment. He needs to get his wisdom teeth removed. I'm going to make him lots of soft foods to eat. Also, I'm going to bake cookies to bring with me to the north Virginia anime club thingie.I hope the people there will be nice and like me and not be creepy or boring. Ok, sleep now. Too tired to see the screen.