What's Stopping You?

Bought a new computer, which I'm currently emailing you from (I named her Churro). While at Microcenter, I discovered a neat gadget that lets me take an internal harddrive and make it an external USB-port HD that connects to both Macs and WinXP. This means that my old 100GB HD with my entire music (including my personal mixes and CD covers), bit torrent and pr0n collection is now portable!

The bad news: my boot disk HD is toast. I may try to pay to get it repaired. Among the various things I've lost include my entire email archive, including my entire relationship with (f)AD (who comments, "That sucks! The only reason I deleted my copy was because you still had yours!") and Mimi Usagi (which could seriously have been turned into a book with little editing). I've also lost my bookmarks and password collection, which is a hard blow.

Time to start cracking at the odious task of downloading all those progs I had on my old baby. While I'm at it, I'm going to try importing this backup collection from Dec 2005 and see what is on it. When that's done, I'm going to look into finally setting up my LAN, and try to put my printer on the network.

Also, the new computer doesn't seem to recognize my speakers. I may blow an extra $100 on a refurbished sound card rather than try to fix it. I still have high hopes of connecting my computer to the surround sound system in my living room. The wiring and everything is already done, I just need to get the computer to recognize it.