OMG-update 2

   It is a success!!! I have been able to recover ALL of my pictures. I was very afraid for a few days, but I have managed to get them all back. I lost all of the programs that I have saved over the lats few years, but they are all replaceable. I am just glad to know that all of my pictures are safe and sound. I can breathe again.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
   I have been using a program called “Recover My Files”. It is a good program, but it is taking forever to complete. I am not wuprosed, since I am looking at recovering roughly 200GB (that’s GIGA-bytes) of files.
   I am mildly pleased, since the program allows you to see partially recoverd sectors, and I am seeing pictures that we have taken in the last month or so. This means that I will “likely” get most or all of my pictures back.

ORIGINAL POST
   So I was trying to create a little more room for all of my pictures and music and what-not, when there was a catastrophic failure of my MFT (Master File Table). This is the file that tells the operating system where all of the other files on the Hard Drive are.
   I am afraid that I may have lost all of my files. ALL OF THEM. Everypicture EVER taken by Jamie or myself, and EVERY movie made, and EVERY Song EVER put on the Hard Drive.
   I am dong a recovery effort for the files, but it is not looking too good.
   I am going to be sick if these files aren’t recoverable. The last time I backed up the pictures to our laptop was in August of 2005. Everything After that was backed up on my two hard drives on the desktop computer. Unfortunately, When I was repartitioning, I repartitioned both HDD, causing BOTH to become corrupt. I figured that if one went that at least there would be the other for purposes of recovery. I never imagined that BOTH would fail simultaneously!!!

Sad, Very Sad.

The collapse happens about 4:30 minutes into the conversation.

Jessica Alba… wait for it…

Listen carefully for Jessica’s personal message to you (you may need to turn up your speakers, the audio is sort of soft)
winterrowd.com

I just love those……

Pranks that is. Sicko.

Revamp #2,361.1 Beta…

So here is yet another rendition of this blog. I am not too sure what I am trying to accomplish, but when I find it, I am sure to change my mind.

I worked at the old jail last night, and locked myself out of the control room. I am so used to closing the door, that I just left the room and locked it behind me. I am an idiot.

In the New Jail Finally.

   So we are in the new jail now. The move went very smoothly except for the elevator broke at about 2am, so half the jail had to walk the 3 flights of stairs in shackles instead of travel the lift. Boo hoo for them. Mostly I feel sorry for the officers who lugged all the chains up the stairs when they were coming to get new loads of detainees.
   At last it is finished.

Prednisone = Steroids = Maniacal

So the doc put me on prednisone. It is a steriod and is known, by me for instance, to cause “severe insomnia”. (cue maniacal laughter)

If you read my prior posts, you already know that the only reason I originally went to the doctor was to help me to sleep through the night. (cue laughter again)

The real funny thing however, is that I am working graveyard, so I am awake anyway. Ha ha, except for the fact that I am so tired that I can’t actually do anything. So, the real question is “Should I be at work?” The answer to that question is no, and so with that I will call in and let them know that I won’t be there tonight. Hopefully I can sleep tomorrow.

((I am so dazed that it has taken me 20 minutes of typing typos and retyping typos to get this post done))

Itchy & Scratchy Pt2

If you have seen me in the last, say four days, then you will know that I have been itching my skin OFF. Originally, I thought that the offender was the new bottle of TIDE with FEBREEZE. I even sent TIDE a nasty-gram e-mail complaining of my experience. Sorry. (They are sending a free sample)
THEN, after the rash/itching failed to stop when we cleaned everything with new laundry detergent, I decided that I should probably go to the Doc and find out if I actually had some other problem on my hands. By this time, it was too late in the day to get in to see my regular doctor, so I would have to see the on-duty Doctor. That was yesterday, July 17th.

The doctor told me that I had SCABIES. SCABIES!?!?!?!?! Yuck.

I didn’t like the sound of that, but I knew that it was very possible to have contacted someone with scabies, since I work in corrections at the County Jail. I was mad at myself for not being more careful. I always try and “glove up” if I know there is a chance of physical contact, but there are always those times that are unforseen. Well, @#$% (translate = darn).
So I got some pills to help me with the itching, and then had to get four tubes (count 4 = one for each of us in the house) of anti-scabies-cream. So, with the co-pay of $10 to see the doc, and $10 for each perscription, I have spent $60 on getting rid of scabies, not to mention the TIDE I got rid of and the cost of the new allergen free detergent and the recleaning of all of my clothes, and the recleaning of all of the bedding in the house… Ok, so we are out of money… what’s new.
After using the cream last night, it was obvious this morning that the “MIRACLE SCABIES CREAM” didn’t do the trick. Oh, yeah, NOT ONE OTHER MEMBER OF MY FAMILY EVER ITCHED. However, I was itching as bad as ever. I just figured that I was gonna have to grin-n-bear it until it just went away.
Enter Jamie, who called my regular doctor (Grubbs), and made me an appointment after seeing me as misrable as she ever has seen me.
I go in to see Doctor Grubbs and you wouldn’t guess the first words out of his mouth after he saw the rash… wait for it……

He said “That is definetly not scabies”. Well, @#$% (translate however you want on that one). If I dont’ have scabies, what do I have?

Lucky for me, my doctor went and got a textbook to show me what I actually had. It is a type of Milaila or heat rash.
So, rack up $20 more for the visit and some more pills, and we have a grand total of … carry the one … over $100 easy.
If you see the Paypal Icon to the left of the blog… you know what the right thing to do is. He-he-he.
So, in short. I had allergies, then scabies, then heat rash. I got, new detergent, then scabies cream, then prednazone. I am out $100. How I feel…. Priceless.

The Itchy and Scratchy Show

I have recently found out that I am allergic to Tide with Febreeze. I came upon this revelation by way of millions of small red itchy bumps on my body. About the only place rash/bump free is my head. I think that this kind of torture should be used on POWS in G’itmo. I know I would talk in seconds of subjected to this kind of hell.
Jamie feels bad, but there was no way for her to know that this was gonna hit me this way. At least she is being helpful with cleaning all of my clothes with non-allergenic soap. I have a good wife.
In other news, and for the humorist in us all you have GOT to check out this site. It is AKJAK dot com. It is a video of star wars, except vader has been replaced by other James Earl Jones movie Quotes. You will never forget hearing darth say “Hey Baby!”

Mac VS PC Original

For anyone who hasn’t seen the original MAC VS PC Commercials that Apple has put together lately…

Below is the spoof of these ads. Pretty good stuff.

Mac VS PC Commercial spoof