Well, I have gotten myself a new external hard drive! It is 640 GB Western Digital. I have good things about Western Digital, and my friend has an external hard drive made by these guys and loves it, so I made a habit of looking for a good hard drive by them. Going into Staples the other day the 640 GB ones where on clearance for $87 so I jumped on that opportunity.
Currently I have only one, and may end up buying a second one for just backup of the first. In addition to that, or in place of buying the second, my dad and I will end up fixing up the server we have in the house and using that as a backup too, as that is a massive back up system with a huge amount of space. I currently forget what is under the hood of that server, and it is too early in the morning to get up and find out.
I am looking around to see if I have hard copies of my writings, which I think I do, so I'll end up typing them up and saving them on the hard drive. My iPod has most if not all of my music on it, so I will just get that music off there, with the help of some outside programs. The two big loses are the photos I did not end up posting somewhere, and my movie collection. The good thing is that I can recover my movie collection through various means, but the photos lost are lost forever.
More good news is that I am writing up something new. It is kind of a different style and format, and so far, it has been fun writing (I am only four lines in, but still). I would love to get it done some time soon and post it because I have been terrible in that department. In addition to that, I have another short story in the works, which also delves into a different style. This one will take some time because of its content and writing format, but it should turn out to be something interesting if finished.
So here's to fresh new beginnings and bright new horizons!