So this was a week of failures. The first and the least of my worries was the chair I use with my PC. It failed on me. The new one is just new to me. It hurts my back a little and creaks and moans. It's just uncomfortable. Friday night my hard drive failed. This is a lot more serious than the chair. I hadn't backed up in a long, long time. I was a foolish man. All my old files are backed up, but it's the new stuff that I lost. I lost all my current writing except that which was published here. The biggest thing I lost was my private San Francisco pictures. The only pictures I have now are again, pictures I published here, and a few strays which I burned on a CD which I had developed at Wal-Mart. I'm still trying several methods to retrieve my data, but there isn't any luck in it so far. The third failure was my trip to Little Rock. While it's true I needed to take a break and get away, and spending time with my friends was really great, the whole reason I took the trip fell through yesterday and the trip just wasn't as fun anymore. On a positive side, I woke up really early this morning just as day broke and couldn't go back to sleep, so I started reading On The Road. I was told it was great, but I didn't know it would be that catchy. From just the first few pages I got at least one quote I'd like to talk about here. However, since this is a woe is me entry, I'll write it later. I've got a spare hard drive in my PC now which I won't fill up with much of anything just yet. When I get my replacement I'll put all my favorite stuff back on, but right now I have all I need to continue working on writing and my website. With that I can at least keep doing what I was enjoying the most lately. I've kind of got this idea in my head, "The files I lost were just zeros and ones, so just liven up a little and move on." But I'm a Scorpio. I collect as many junk computer files as I do real life junk. So the idea pops into my head, "Yeah, but it's MY zeros and ones. All in their best arrangements to make the memories I love. Like San Francisco." But anyway, yeah, woe is me. This weekend overall blew pretty bad. The break was good though, but now I'm back. I guess I'll just get over it, and get on with what I got to do. Like write about On The Road. Stay tuned.