Wakeys.

Yesterday I lay down for a quick nap at 4:30 pm and had real trouble dragging myself out of bed at 7:00. I was feeling really groggy until around midnight when I went to bed. THEN I felt quite awake. I eventually fell asleep a little past 2:00 am and awoke at 10:00, so I guess I got somewhat caught up on sleep.

Todays plan is to go out for a brunchish thing with taxlady and then stop in at Microbytes to buy me a new hard drive, and a replacement backup drive (and some more RAM, while I'm at it).

So far, all I've managed is a shower, coffee and webcomics, but that's fine. Its still the early.

Iconz

So, now that I'm a paid member and using the secret spidey servers™ at LJ, I can have a bunch more icons. Some I had already grabbed from various places, but one that I recently found and wanted to turn into an icon is this image:



Because you know I'm always thinking important thoughts.

My best attempt at turning it into an icon has been this:



and that doesn't really seem to work, does it?

Memewhoring

Now you can go and give brownie points to friends on LJ, much like you can do on Orkut.

Here's my pitiful score (which I only have because I went and rated myself).



Click on the image to rate how much you love me.

Going Down.

Am about to shut my computer down to do major surgery on hard disks and RAM. Hopefully I'll be back online in a few hours, but nothing ever runs to plan with computers.

So far, so good.

When I stuck the new 200GB drive in the removable drive bay, the bios recognized it as a 203 GB disk at once. Windows tells me its 189.92 GB, but that's typical. Right now, its happily formatting away, and I haven't got any errors. If I can reliably write to and verify data at the end of the disk (I put a small partition there, for testing), then I'll declare it a win, perform a full backup to the new backup drive, and then format the second 200GB and migrate my files there.

After that I'll have to actually open up my machine to put the drive inside, and I'll install the new RAM while I'm at it. I don't know if I'll get that all done tonight though, as this fomat is taking FOREVER.

(In the new drive's defense, its SWATTING HUGE, and I don't think my controller is correctly using the higher speed transfer modes. That's something that I plan to try and fix, once I have a full backup).