Imitation crab is ah-mazing.....and it's fun to eat. I like unraveling the little bits until it's like one strip of fake crab-stuff.
But what did I come on here for.....oh yeah.
So long story short, my Outlook at work bonked out on me while I was transferring photos from my camera's SD card to the computer. So for some magical reason, my SD card bonked out on me too. I rebooted the computer a couple times and re-inserted the card a few times, nada. Thereby causing me to flip out (in a controlled fashion) for the entire day trying to recover the photos and videos on the card.
This is where you would leave now. Bye friend.
Oh hello friend, did you still want to listen?
Well.....I feel kinda bad having to install/uninstall like four different file recovery programs so that I can recover as many files as I could. And of course, they were all trial versions, so I could only recover so much at a time. They only allowed like 1-2GB worth of files to be recovered. Then I gotta buy the actual thing for like $30 upwards, which I'm probably never gonna use again (because I learned my lesson, ya silly girl). There was actually one time during the day I decided to check if my Outlook was working okay
OH SNAP BACKTRACK. Ok ok ok ok. Before ALL THIS STUFF happened, I burned my left wrist carrying a cup of ramen back to my desk. I have to go to the water cooler all the way in the lobby so that I can get hot water immediately. And the microwave oven was about the same distance, but I don't think that way of obtaining hot water is as 'healthy'. ANYHOO...I was doing a spectacular job of carrying my cup of ramen all the way back to my desk, and then when I get to my desk, I noticed I was tipping the cup over JUUUSSSTTT a teensy bit. And I wish I could figure out what direction is was tipping in, but the small plate I had over the cup was covering my view. So tip goes the liquidy cheapness onto my left wrist. Where my watch band is. Ahhhh.....fortunately it wasn't too much. And I was able to get some wipes from Robert's desk to clean up the stuff.
Alright, so now that I got that out of my system, back to my technology dilemma!
So when I was checking if my Outlook was okay, the program that was doing a deep scan of my SD card bonked out and I had to run the process AGAIN. I mean, 30 minutes for completion isn't so bad, but STILL. And the funny thing about this program, is that it generates FIVE copies of each photo! So I'm picking through each 'set' to figure out what's not a thumbnail, what's not glitchy-looking (and quite a number of them were), etc. THAT was the time-consuming part. Even sorting out the photos was quicker!
So while I am happy that I was able to recover all the photos from my camera, I was (at least at this point) unable to recover my videos. I mean, the videos were recovered, but whenever I go play them, no video and audio, I get an error message saying that I gotta 'reacquire the content'. Reacquire the content??? What, am I supposed to reenact getting on Zach's dirtbike, playing 20 questions with Leah at Sarah's bridal shower, the drive with Vincent and his parents in VA, the friends at Devon's party singing "We Are The Champions" in an expertly off-key manner? And that's where the whole install/uninstall the four different programs comes in, but none of them ever worked. Aggghhh...I'm a speck in the universe, I'm a speck in the universe, I'm a speck in the universe, I'm a speck in the universe....
They're just videos, right? But like, here's the thing, I don't buy souvenirs or take too much stuff home. I just take pictures and videos. THOSE are my souvenirs. My memories. I don't like stuff. Okay, I like it occasionally, as long as it's practical. But videos man, totally captures the moment. And Joseph always makes fun of me for not just living in the moment. But I like documenting all these different events. I mean, we DO come back around to these later and have a laugh or cry at them.
I feel like I pretty much blew off all the people I like at work. I ranted a little to Sara about my dilemma (because that's what we do when we come by each others' cubicles) and we barely spoke to each other after that except for one moment where she gave me an extra copy of the company profile from 2007. And then Joe walks by my cube after his lunch break. And I SOOO wanted to chat with him, but I was in the zone getting all my pics recovered. I'm just sorry that he caught me at a bad time because I feel like he could be my ally at work other than Sara and William. And William, he is such a sweet dude. I overhear him sometimes since he's in the cube next door, pep-talking his girlfriend over the phone "set your goals and go for your goals", that sort of thing. He's part of Finance, so he gets me when it comes to getting super-accurate information. I didn't get his email because of Outlook being down for me, so he printed the stuff for me. I forgot to tell him have a good weekend, and I know it's a small thing, but stuff like that is always nice. I was in a state of controlled anger the whole day, and I really did not want to explode on anyone, so I had my earbuds on the whole time.
Anyway, that's all I gotta say for now about that. I'm supposed to wake up early tomorrow, but I'm not sure about the snow. Said we're supposed to get like 3-6 inches. But I barely saw anything when I walked out of the office. Actually, as side note, I didn't really leave work until like 20 minutes after I texted Vincent because I had my USB drive that was able to hold all the photos from my camera, so I ended up transferring the pics from the computer to the USB, which took like 20 minutes. Okay I lied, I did have more to say LOL. I wish I could talk to Vincent now but he's probably busy with house-sitting duties. Praise journaling!
Maybe I'll just finish studying for the meeting until I fall asleep. Good night friend.
EDIT: So SOME of my worries have been lifted because some of the photos from the SD have already been transferred to my external hard drive *thanks past self profusely* But I'm sure for a few events I wasn't able to transfer over in time, so the videos of those have been lost...bleh again. At least I have photos.