So, I need to give a little background as I did not write a blog entry.

About a month or so ago, a dreadful event occurred. It has since become known as Black Saturday. I was playing on my G4 iBook trying to figure out how to use the multiple users feature. In my ignorance, I seem to have named the temporary user the same as the permanent account. As such, when I went to delete the temp account, the stupid computer in its 1s and 0s logic deleted not only the temp account, but the permanent one as well. Thus, Black Saturday. After many attempts by Simple Geek to retrieve my lost data, I finally reformatted the computer and started all over. I was sure that all the important stuff was still safely on the old PC.

I emailed my dad yesterday and asked him to buy me a copy of FileMaker Pro 7. The retail price is $299, the government discount price is $287, and the student discount price is $149. Seems like a no-brainer to me. So, last night I made the trip all the way to Baltimore to pick up the copy my dad bought me. (I also got a turkey meatloaf dinner and vanilla pudding.) I turn around and come straight back home, flopped down on the bed, and load the software. Then I decided, even though it was a little late, that I would fire up the PC and move the FileMaker files to my Mac.

To my horror, I discovered that none of the files were on the PC. It seems that I had moved them over to the Mac intending to burn them onto CD, and didn’t get to it before Black Saturday. So the database that I have spent 3 years building is gone forever. I am very, very angry about this. What makes me even more angry is that there is 1 copy out there, but alas, the person who has it has decided that he never wants to speak to me again, so I will never get my database back.

I just wish I could get that disk back. Oh, well, I guess I should have thought of that before I tried to be a friend. See what I get for caring about people? Well, it seems that there is only 1 thing to do. Build a new one. And make it better than the old one. I just don’t know if I have the strength or wherewithal to do that.