Mornings.

Not got much to say, except that after being a zombie for the last 4 or 5 days, I've finally gotten a proper nights sleep, and even managed to wake up at a reasonable time this morning.

Now I just need to wait until I've successfully made a gzipped backup of my 500-GB drive so I can start trying to undelete files on it. So far its been copying for 2 days and I'm only at 40% done, so I don't think I'll be in a position to do any recovery until Monday.  I am hoping all does go well in the recovery aspect though, as it seems the list of files that I lost in the data disaster was much, much larger than I feared. So, yes, I have a recent backup of my music files, and my porn files seem entirely intact, but all serious work that I had stored on two partitions is gone. I *DO* have a 1-year-old backup of that stuff, but I have no idea what I've done since then that might have been lost.

Oh well, we'll just do our best, and whatever will be, will be.

Oh, and I have no idea why copying that partition is taking so long. I also copied and gzipped a 300GB partition, and that one only took 3hours...