This morning I woke up to see my computer in windows setup mode. It had rebooted when my primary hard drive spontaneously self-destructed sometime in the middle of the night. I have spent several hours reinstalling windows and basic applications to restore my basic configuration. Luckily most of my data was on another drive. Most. Because I'd run out of space on my main mp3 drive, I had spilled some overflow onto my main drive. I had put all the best songs there. All the vinyl rips that I had spent hours tracking down, and then listening to up to a dozen versions of each song before finding the one without any glitches, and then naming and tagging them properly. And now it's all gone. I am majorly bummed. And I'm employed now, which means I won't have the time to track them down again. Sad sad sad. To relieve some of my frustration, I am disassembling one of the many extra/broken hard drives I have lying around, as a twisted form of catharsis.

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