2 pieces of news this week:

Sarah had a minor (no pun intended) bumper-bender.  She's safe, and the Jedi-mobile is getting repaired.

And we helped some of our gaming friends move from one side of the town to the other (closer to us)!  Russ got real exhausted, we both slept soundly over the next 2 nights.

We're excited to have mom & dad come visit for the next week as Russ has Friday off!

Another one bites the dust...

A few days ago, Russ woke up early in the morning to blog about some things that were mulling around in his head.  He pulled out what he's been affectionately referring to as the mini-lappy (a fairly decently powerful netbook) that has survived his heavy gaming, role-play & regular use for the last 2 years.  In the middle of collecting his thoughts, a glitch somehow wiped out the master boot record for starting the PC into windows.  Needless to say, Russ got a little upset in not being able to access his files, books & web bookmarks, music, movies, photos & games on a regular basis.  He's attempted restoring the glitched data with recovery disks & flash drives - but so far, no dice.  His only consolation is that he's already upgraded to a nicer wider-screen-and-better-graphics laptop for only a few hundred dollars more and has already began backing up his new files & settings.  Lesson learned: Archive & update on a regular basis!

On a side note: There may still be hope.  Russ is still attempting other methods of resurrecting the missing boot file.  If successful, he will be donating his machine (after copying his files to an external backup drive) to his wife who seriously needs a laptop upgrade herself.  Not to mention so that the 2 of them can sit in bed & play their favorite multiplayer game side-by-side each other.