I got an extra hour of sleep this morning!

“How is that Jo Cose?” you ask.

Well, there is the official story and then there is the real story.

The official story is that I awoke to the sound of my power restarting. Apparently, I lost power at some point in the night, and it didn’t turn on until around 7 this morning. I, of course, rushed to get to work, and got here about 45 minutes late.

The real story is somewhat different.

As the regular followers of this blog are aware, I lost all of my files when I messed up my computer (see I Hate Stupid Computers). Well, I thought that most of the important stuff was still on my PC. Of course, I was wrong. (Un)fortunately, all of them are on my SparQ drive. The Un part of that is that my SparQ drive has not worked in ages. I actually spent $75 to get it repaired once (that was when I put everything on my iBook; it has since broken again.

So, I did what any sensible person would do: I went to eBay. It came in the mail last night, so naturally, I had to play with it. Much to my chagrin, it was not an external drive as the guy stated, but an internal one. That meant that I had to get my fat-ass under the desk, take my computer apart, figure out how the damn thing fit in, and get it going. I had to disconnect my CD-ROM, but the important thing is that as soon as I turned on the PC, it worked immediately.

Fearful that this drive, too, would suddenly stop working, I decided to transfer all of the files to my Mac right away. I did my best, but time waits for no one, and I finally had to stop around 12:15 in the morning. I did, however, get all of the files off the SparQ and onto the PC. I only have about 10 more directories to transfer to my Mac, then I will burn all of them before even looking to see what I can get rid of.

So, if you haven’t figured it out already, the upshot of this geeky story is that it was very, very late before I got to bed, so I wanted to sleep a little late.

Oh, but I do actually have really good news! I don’t need to worry about the silly person who thinks I’m a jerk for caring. I found an old copy of the database. So, now I don’t have to start from scratch after all.