The food poisoning is a real downer. *hugs back* I'm not as young as I used to be (who is?) but I sure don't bounce back like I used to and that is rather a downer. I'd really like to be able to eat again.

You know what's mildly amusing? This drive was also my backup drive. It was partitioned so that part of it was backup for my critical data and then a section was just for playing around and having fun. I'm extremely lucky, I know, that when it died it didn't take the only copy of my financial data or anything else critical to continuing real life as I know it. But reassembling the thousands of cool textures for making icons? And my literally tens of thousands of screen caps? Sadly, that just isn't going to happen.

Damn :( Can you afford to take it to a tech for data recovery?


And yeah, it'd be lovely to eat. I ate something yesterday and today, I feel like complete... well, dead would probably feel better. *sighs* At least I can drink my mocha latte without any trouble, but that's about as far as I'm going to get, I think. About the only thing that sounds good to me is fried rice. Not sure if that's good or bad. ;)

I think it depends on how much it costs, honestly. I've never had a hard drive fail. The only reference point I have is a friend whose financial drive failed and she had no choice but to pay $1500 for data recovery. I won't pay that kind of money just for stuff that's purely recreational. A couple of hundred, though, I might just to save myself the wear and tear of hunting down my favorite textures again.

Wait -- you're suffering food poisoning now?!? I'm sure you posted and I missed it, I've been missing a lot especially for the past week, but I'm soooooo sorry. It really really sucks. :( Everything I've read indicates that a post-poisoning diet should be BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, & toast) so fried rice probably isn't exactly what they mean but it isn't that far, either... ;-)

Not to worry, hun. You didn't miss anything. I didn't post it because I ass-umed that my groggy, gropy, "where's my head/stomach/planet" feeling was just some lay-over from insomnia. Um, nope. Have had stomach issues but no throwing up. It's annoying. The stomach says, "We're going to make you nauseated all day long for no good reason, mwahahahahaha." Jeeeeez. Throw it all up already. Maybe I need alcohol. *sniggers* No, but it'd be a nice test to that silly hypothesis. :-p And *now* Fried Rice isn't sounding good either. Bananas hate my stomach, so I can't go there anymore. :( Applesauce... hmmmm, maybe not. Bathrooms breaks have recently faded. *gg* Apple juice, otoh, sounds good. Toast... maybe. Though I'd be tempted to use the garlic butter... *blinks* maybe not. :-p

$1500? Ow. Ow ow ow. Erm, yeah, never mind. A couple of hundred might be worth it just getting the financial data back... and a few lovely caps. ;)

:( :( :( I got the full blown works, leaving me in no doubt. Stupid bacteria/toxins/virii/what ever. No food sounds good to me. Water does, though.

I'm definitely mourning my Michael Shanks and John Barrowman collections. The loss of those fine gentlemen is a tragedy. Luckily, the internets giveth freely and I'll eventually be able to restock my larder. Nonetheless? Weeks of nothing but collecting went into those accumulations and it'll be a right pain to replace them. I feel a bit badly complaining since it's not as if I lost irreplaceable, "woe is me" kind of stuff but it'll halt me in my tracks when it comes to playing with Photoshop.

I'm such a graphics whore that I don't mind searching for more quality pics even when I have "enough." ;) Playing in my PSP sandbox is fun too.

And my tummy finally decided I could eat a salad as long as I put spice in it, aka, chipotle sauce, so I went down to Wendy's and got a Southwestern salad. So far, my tummy's okay. Seems to be thinking about things, but so far, nothing's wanting to come back up. I think it's all decided to out through the other end. Oh FUN.

Absolutely. In fact, I tend to search for pics when I'm "blocked" or just making crap instead of icons or bored or...otherwise not being productive. There's a huge diff, though, between adding 20 or so cool new pics to an already burgeoning drive and looking at an empty drive needing filling. :( I could spend weeks doing nothing but searching for caps and pics, downloading, and not have a collection as good as before.

Ah well, it's really not an end of the world issue though I'm terribly sorry to have lost some tough to replace videos.

Hope your digestive system was okay with the salad. Salad is what I suspect made me ill so I'll probably be giving it a miss for a while. Very sad. There's no part of food poisoning that's fun; I felt like I should be starring in a horror movie myself. ;-) Not eating yesterday was a good thing because I feel tons better today and I'm hopeful again of restarting a normal-ish eating plan.