My Western Digital hard disk is dead, pretty much. I now have a silver stone in my computer, along with a new Seagate hard disk. I really have a lot of space now, and so I also have a bunch of different partitions for the sake of better organization.

Not much has happened, but we did get report cards on Monday. I didn’t do very good, but I did better than expected, better than anything I had last year, and I tied with Alex. =o I also would have tied with Konrad had he gotten an A- in math like the report card originally said, which he disputed since he only had a couple A- grades in math. I’m still not too sure who got the Headmaster’s this quarter, but it seems likely that it was Montoya. I was surprised to see Payne get a 3.89 (same as Mehlman). Congrats to him!

There hasn’t been too much to post in the past week because I haven’t found much online. Sorry about that… I have, however, picked up Morrowind again, since I never really got into it, and I think I’ve gotten into it this time. It’s fun, but like someone said on an FAQ, it’s a little too serious. Well, One Piece is still awesome! Yeah! =D

Now Playing: Markus Schulz - GDJB (11-10-2004) part 3 / genre: Progressive

Edit: And Ryan got a new hard disk today! Whee.

Goodbye, old Western Digital hard disk (40GB). Apparently it was manufactured four years old, but I don’t know when we bought it. It failed yesterday with sounds similar to “Bad head1.wav” found on some Hitachi FAQ that my brother showed me. I read on some website I found on google to try to freeze it and try later. Today, when we got a new hard disk to replace the old one, I tried the old frozen one first; but no, it did not work. So that’s that.

What I’ve lost includes… my graphics (the ones I’ve made) archive (including psd files for designs and such), some funny graphics I’ve found scattered across the internet, photos (with the exception of the few kept on Gmail and the vast collection of Hong Kong/Beijing photos I took, which are on my laptop), all sorts of web design/web backup stuff (blog scripts, message board scripts, blog layout, site layouts), my Firefox download folder (D:_stuff) where many things were stuffed and never taken out, music videos (maybe around twenty), DDR/bemani videos (people playing, mostly freestyle stuff), classic videos (Tokyo Breakfast, Strongbad’s dragon, All your base, Mario 3 in “record” time) and other videos like my brother teaching electrical engineering.

So, bye. But! With a new hard disk is a new opportunity to reorganize everything on my computer (kind of). I plan on moving some bulk amounts of files around when I get a new hard disk finally installed.

I told Jonathan and Ryan of the story of putting the newly-bought hard disk in. (Spoiler: It didn’t work. We’re exchanging it.) This is how it goes. Excuse the instant -essage style of conversation used; after all, it was through Trillian.

stephen: every time i open up my computer, i am opening an adventure
jonathan: really?
stephen: yes
stephen: unexpected things always happen
jonathan: I thought it’s just twist a few screws and plug things in
stephen: this is what happened in today’s “adventure”
stephen: yeah
stephen: that’s what you expect every time
stephen: i put in the hard disk like normal
stephen: (the new one)
stephen: well actually
stephen: i started with the old, frozen one
stephen: tried a few times, didn’t work
stephen: so i took it out and put in the new one
stephen: connect, turn it on
stephen: somewhere it shorts in within a few seconds of turning it on, computer turns itself off
stephen: try a few more times, same result
stephen: remove new hard disk, try again, works
stephen: tried taking out the master/slave selector, even though it was already on cable select -> taking it out puts it on slave
stephen: put it back in, turn it on
stephen: still doesn’t work once again
stephen: took it out, neither did it work without the hard disk in
stephen: tried a few more times
jonathan: ouch
stephen: didn’t work
stephen: yeah
stephen: waited a little more
stephen: AND THEN IT WORKED
stephen: whooooooo
stephen: i thought we would have to replace my processor and motherboard again like last year!
stephen: so yes.
stephen: something wrong with that hard disk
stephen: silly seagate people
stephen: we’re going to exchange it tommorow
stephen: omg hard disk drama keke

The Past Week

Okay, here’s a brief overview of the past week or so. Last Saturday was Homecoming at Cistercian, and I had a really good time (although they didn’t have DDR as they promised– only Pump!). I need to learn how to play craps, though; I think I’m not too bad at blackjack. (We played with just chips/fake money.) Then Sunday resumed with normal life, continuing through the rest of the school week (except for the PSAT on Wednesday, which really wasn’t that bad). One thing that’s changed, however, is that it’s starting to get cold!

Today

Well, today, I went to the state fair. It was enjoyable and relaxing, not a bad way to spend some time.

I took the first picture, of fountains at the fair. The second picture is of me eating funnel cake. My face was a little weird when I was eating, but that’s all right…

Yes, it’s still getting cold!