My ever faithful m280n HP Media Penter PC has died. The harddrive failed so now I can’t boot. I am still tinkering with the idea that there is some kind of hardware issue. If I can’t fix it then the only real problem I foresee is that my iTunes songs and my tax return weren’t backed up recently. I may be complaining excessively about harddrives soon. I bought this machine from Circuit City on September 8, 2003 with an extended warranty. My data is backed up on a Netgear Storage Central SC101 with two 400GB Seagate Ultra ATA/100 harddrives running software RAID 1. That little thing is cool. It’s a little picky about getting unplugged but I’ve figured out the quirks that come with it. Hmmm. Ugh. I’m crabby, now. If you watch my episode 3 podcast today you may notice it slightly changed from what I posted Thursday night. I tweaked it down a notch. That helped me get over a little bit of my Astroworld Is Lost empty feelings. Not helping me today is the fact that I’d planned on checking out the local theme park in Minneapolis — Valley Fair. Geez, I’m glad I checked on their operating hours because the park doesn’t open for another month! It was 40 friggin’ degrees this morning when I woke up. What’s going on here? I think they’re scheduling summer for one week in the middle of August.

UPDATE! My primary master and slave harddrives switched places for some reason. Whew! I took the slave out (which the computer now saw as the master) and everything is back to normal. Now I need to play some Depeche Mode to get this out of my system. No pun intended.