Oh man. I’m so sorry for your loss, Star Raven. 
So sorry for your loss Star Raven
Alan
I am very sorry to hear that Star Raven. I’ve been there, and I know how dreadful it feels. My thoughts are with you and your family.
I am so sorry for your loss.
So sorry to hear that, SR. Losing a parent is really tough.
Sorry to hear that.
I’m so sorry, Star Raven.
My own, considerably less sucky, drama:
On Friday, I was headed down to my parents’ for the weekend. I stopped at the toll booth, paid my toll, and pulled away. As I was putting my window up, I heard a “pop” and the window stopped moving. It wouldn’t go up or down. I then drove 20 minutes further down the highway to my parent’s house (20F/-7C at 70 MPH/115 KPH with the window down is not pleasant!) After a few calls, I found a repair shop that would look at it that evening. They tear the door apart, and it’s the “regulator” a small plastic piece attatched to the motor for the power window. And for my car, they do not sell it separately. The girl at the shop makes a phone call and they can get the part for $176 right then. :eek: If she waits til regular business hours on Monday, she can probably get it cheaper. So, I’m driving around this week with a non-functioning window until I can get back down to my hometown on Friday.
sigh
And I only have one payment left on the damned thing…
My iPod is a hobbled shell of its former self. I have a 120GB iPod Classic that I take to work every single day. This thing is my most important piece of electronics. I had an old iPod 20GB years ago and when it broke down in 2008 it wasn’t more than two days until I had the new iPod Classic. I’ve got 36GB of music on it and a half-dozen movies. Lately it’s been having trouble with “C” artists (specifically The Clash and CCR), and so I’d remove the artists from iTunes, sync, add them back, and re-sync. I figured the thing would need to be serviced or repaired within the next few months, but I would have time.
I didn’t. The thing can’t sync anything past a certain point on the HDD, and as a result, I have an iPod that only plays artists that start with the letters A and B. The upside is that this means Bear McCreary is there. The downside is that if I try to change my settings to just sync playlists, to try to treat my Classic like a really expensive Nano (which would be fine by me until my birthday, if not ideal), then it just dumps everything.
This is not a huge, epic disaster, of course, and it doesn’t compare to real tragedy. But it’s disappointing, just the same.
Have you tried managing playlists manually? That’s the system I must now use as I keep my library on two different hard drives, which at one point confused the hell out of iTunes on my laptop and caused it to create triplicate copies of everything I have on there (well, audio anyway. The movies seem to be fine). That’s 117 GB of information in there, and I don’t have the time to clear out the duplicate copies myself or the funds to buy a program to do it for me. Ugh!
Pardon the double post, but this seemed to warrant its own post rather than a remark at the end of a response to iPod issues.
A colleague of sorts (someone I was about to work with on a couple of projects for the next year or so, who had programmed my music a couple of times this year and shared a passion for some of the same musicians that I do. I only met him once in person, though, at the big concert I did last October, which he came down for Massachussetts for) died suddenly of what it turns out was a combination of multiple gastrointestinal and pulmonary infections, the flu and lack of sleep (from what I’ve heard everything could’ve been perfectly treatable, but he waited till he was dragged to the hospital Saturday night to see a doctor, by which point he’d suffered a lot of damage) last Monday night/Tuesday morning. He was 35.
I didn’t know him well, but knew him well enough to be in shock, still. He was one of the most impressive musicians and educators I’ve ever met and his death–particularly at such an early age–is an epic loss, both personally and professionally.
first can I open with gentle phaze hugz for everyone who is suffering.
To continue with my own (minor) drama, today I sat the “Intalling, configuring and securing Microsoft Windows xp” exam, this si the fourth and final exam I have to take before gaining MCSA certification. IT requries a score of 700 (or 70%) to pass.
I answered every question in about a 1/4 of the alloted time (usual for me) then went back over the entire exam and changed a few answers i wasn’t sure about, skipped the “comment on all 45 questions” bit and clicked “end exam”.
Cue ten second nerve wrackign delay followed by “you have scored 630, the required passing grade for this exam is 700”.
aaarrggh
It gets worse , this si seen as the “easy” exam, the other three (which i already passed, albiet after one resit for the networking one) are seen as much harder.
Final kick in the teeth?
Work will only pay for one resit out of all the exams you sit, irrespective of the amount of time (3 years in my case) the coursework and exams have been done for, so I will have to pay for the resit myself at 130 euro this is not money I Want to shell out
Thank you for listening to my rant, hope your weekend goes well.
Phaze
on the “at least Iv’e got the meet up to look forward two in two months, it’s a bright spot on my personally sucky horizon” ID
I have found with Microsoft testing that, day to day familiarity with the the topic can sometimes hurt your testing result.
you could have answered with “A” right answer but not 'THE" correct answer in Microsofts opinion. I had similar trouble when I took the windows 2000 Exams…hard tests = home run… easy test = resit… crrrrraaaaaaap…
hand in there. and good luck
First off. Sorry for your loss, Star Raven. Hang in there. We are all thinking about you.
Now, I don’t usually post in here but I did a very dumb thing and it sucketh.
I turned on my Terabyte drive to access some data and the dreaded click…click…click sound appeared. OK. Guess who has no brain and works in IT? Yep. Me. That’s who. I did not have a backup of the drive. I can hear Juan heating up the torture iron right now.
Granted, I have several on the files on other forms of media (e.g. my whole CD collection and some of my DVDs) and some of the data on other USB drives but I have no catalog of what I would lose. UGH!
Anywho, I download an ISO Ubuntu Rescue Disk and boot from it. I connected the USB drive to it and waited. After about 15 minutes, Ubuntu recognized the drive. While I type this I am exporting the data from the drive.
phew
I just hope I can get everything I need off there.
stoopid 'talos
So no meetup for me. I haven’t been on the forums much this week, kinda going through a grieving process about it. Finances suck this year. Le sigh.
Vader voice
NOOOOOOOOOOO
/Vader voice
I has a sad now.
I know I really wanted to go! But I haz no cash.
If by some miracle, I do make it this year its going to be very last minute and I’ll probably have to sleep on someone’s floor lol.
you are always welcome to my floor!
Of course, I don’t have a room… yet… still, I’ll share my carpet square with you, Baconface
Well, I’ve been passing multiple kidney stones this week. So no work (YEAH!) but pain and, um, “passing” blood (booo!)
And the drugs seem to be doing nothing but making me dizzy and light-headed.
We’ll make room for you if you can come! 