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December 11, 2006
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Exhibit 1. My hard drive decided to "fry" itself over the weekend. It was working fine on Saturday - Sunday morning, blank screen. I didn't drop it, move it, or anything. It just imploded. (luckily, it's stll under warranty! But everything on it is gone.)
Exhibit 2. The really awesome sock I was working on for Matt is WAY too small. It doesn't even fit over my heel, so I'm pretty sure it's not going to fit him. Rip. Rip. Rip!
I guess the weekend wasn't a total loss, though. I had a really nice time at the Knit-In on Friday at Simply Fibers, and I finally got to meet Tammy! (and eat some kick-ass peanut brittle her dad made - yumma.) I scored some Aurora Bulky from the sale table, and almost bought a Lantern moon rice basket, before I realized that Christmas is right around the corner and someone might want to buy one for me! (Talk to Carol or Maddie at Simply Fibers for details...!) Of course, Tammy won one of the baskets in one of the many generous giveaways that night. (I of course won nothing. Don't forget this weekend was jinxed!)
On Saturday Matt and I went over to Steve and Tammy Kirks' house (different Tammy) for their annual Wine Tasting/Competition. Luckily for me there were relatively few entrants and I got to pay more attention to the delicious food rather than the wine, which just wasn't doing much for me that night. My buddy Greg has an excellent account of the evening here. Steve and Tammy managed to pull off a great party with relatively little cooking - it appears that the key is finding gourmet chefs as friends, who will each contribute a dish. =)
So, all in all I guess it was a decent weekend, but I'm still mad about my computer. Grrr...
Posted by zarah at December 11, 2006 5:28 PM
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Ouch! I've been through the hard drive crash before, and I feel your pain, sista! And the sock was so cool - I hate it that you had to rip it out. Thanks for the kudos on the peanut brittle, though!
Posted by: Tammy at December 11, 2006 6:46 PM
Oh no! Computer crashing is horrible. Do you have a back-up? I hope?
Posted by: Jennifer at December 11, 2006 8:39 PM
mine fried last week. i just got a new one reinstalled a few nights ago, but have yet to reinstall all my software. so, now i'm thinking, backup is not such a chore. hmmm ....
oh! and i couldn't pull the old hard drive out, so i just put the new one in the slot next to it :)
Posted by: gray la gran at December 11, 2006 9:22 PM
Yuck. Yeah, that kind of computer mess would certainly put a dent in the weekend, no matter how much fun it was. If it's any consolation, I saw that many places have the little USB drives on sale, I'm planning to pick one up myself for backing up.
Posted by: Jenna at December 12, 2006 8:53 AM
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