In case you didn’t notice but cared, I filled in the recent gaps in my SmackDown stuff with time/finish/important details with recaps from 08/28, 09/04, 10/02, 10/09, 11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/04 and 12/11. Thanks to file sharing, I also did the 11/08 Velocity (in full) that I missed because over zealous deleting (which I’m still doing.)
I should plug thesmartmarks.com for being a resource for some of this data. I completely endorse them as a place to find match times. In the future, I think I can manage the 15 minutes to time/finish things myself, but it was a lot easier than digging through tapes I didn’t have much desire to look through; mostly, the data is more useful as info to use in the title histories (Cruiser, SD! Tag and US Title updated (tag will be added to the side bar soon) – I may have time tommorow to look at how much work doing the SD! part of the WWE title, but I dunno if I want to do it.)
I may update the Cruiser ladder or the info pages or catching up on CMLL, but I hope to get my new hard drive in and I impluse bought a copy of Final Fantasy…IX (swerve) and I could just play that instead of doing stuff here. Eh.
Q: If you lost your hard drive right now, how much would you pay to salvage it, not knowing how much you’d get back?
A good portion of the stuff on that hard drive I spent the most time on this site is on this website. A lot of the rest of the stuff is either still avalible on my old computer (I only stopped using this in August) or stuff I got from Kazaa/BT or I could get from Kazaa/BT. That’s probably actually most of the GBs – I never got around to talking about my strange fascination with making Winter reading material out of reading every single X-Men comic ever* despite having read like 3 previously – so it’s not like I lost huge bytes of personal stuff.
But STILL. E-mails. Job stuff. Personal stuff. A Sim City or two. MY STUFF. I want it back.
Or at least I did till I was quoted $500 to fix (-$50 for being a Gateway customer.) You are not missing a decimal point up there.
So there I am. If I had this computer for 4 years+ with no back up, like the one I’m typing on right now, this is a no question – don’t spend money on other junk for a while and see what they can do. If it was 2 years, probably still.
But $450? For something that wasn’t too far from a new car smell? Compared to what else I could do with that money? Eh.
I’ve lost hard drives before and moved on with my life without getting anything back. It always does suck. I’m thinking that’s what I may end up doing here, unless they suddenly decide to give me a 80% discount or something. It’s not easy to put a price on stuff like that, but I’d say more in the $100 range.
I have this lingering feeling that – despite it giving every sign of a hard drive failure – it may not really be the problem here. I’ll find out in a day or three.
I also do know that most sane people would have just said “$450? Get real. Moving on now.”
Hope they’ve actually put an OS and the Microsoft stuff I had on the comptuer before, or it’s gonna be a long slow annoying rebuild.
* (remind me to digress about this later when I shouldn’t already be deep asleep.