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I have had one of the worst weekends ever. Other than the ones I spent in the hospital saveral years ago, but that's another story.
Whilst Merc Chick was playing with the computer, it crashed. Hard. Ouch! Could not get the stupid thing to boot at all, safe mode or not. Ended up replacing the hard drive. (I'm gonna try to recover the data off the old one when I get the extra time.) Setting up the drive was a pain in the butt. Nothing wanted to work until about 4 a.m. this morning.
Now I've got a larger HD, a bunch of lost (or at least misplaced) data, and several goodies.
After this weekend, I needed a day like today. Got the drive working, my DSL account activated in good time, and I got two Unseen Wolverines in the mail from my sister. Combine that with the stuff I got to buy Saturday (4 new Lego sets, Fafner BA, MAp Set 7 and a Shadow Cat for MC), Discord's a happy little pirate again.

(BTW, my e-mail addy is gonna be changing very soon, so I've put my good ol' Yahoo account up in my profile if ya'll need to get in touch with me until I get my new account set up.)

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Thanks for the info and it's good to know your back online Discord. Did all the essays make it through the email as per your request?

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Yep! Got 'em just fine. I'll get too them as soon as I get Adobe re-installed.

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

No rush. I hope to have the NBC defense revsion up this week but the last essay is going to take a lot of research. Between school and work I doubt I will have it finished by the end of March. And Medron offered to host the essays too.

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About time you showed up you Despot, hope you can save everything, it is good to have you back out here among the crazy

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Sucks about having a hard drive go out on you...on the other hand, at least you get to upgrade....<g>

lego sets? which ones Discord

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Your hard drive flat-lined?

You got really cool sh!t?

All in all:

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Je vous aurais bien aide, mais je ne vous aime pas.

Dr. J. Edgarlove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Inferno Gel

"If you're not careful, you'll get us all whacked. Ha ha! Body in a woodchipper." - Phil Ken Sebben

What is inside the silo? Can it fly? A needle in a haystack... To crack the sky!

Nice to see you back...hehehe

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"I'm gonna Tea Party like its 1776." - Medron Pryde
Who is John Galt?

I take it that Tunnel Rat didn't feed something to computer.... Yet...

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Sir Henry

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I had a hard drive die on me, too. Luckily, I was able to recover all the data.

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First, the Bad News (tm): I wasn't able to recover the data. It's gone. Oh well.

The Good News (tm) is that now I've got an additional 50+ GB to play with.

And as for the Lego sets, a couple of the smaller Star Wars sets and one of the newer Lego Police sets. The Plastic Liberation Army gains in strength !

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

Discord you sound like my brother when it comes to lego. He has more sets than I care to count including the StarWars Star Destroyer. He has a whole room devoted to them. I call it his Lego Shrine.

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The big mamba Star Destroyer, or the little set?

I saw some new Spider-Man sets in Toyfare. I want the Lego Doc Ock!

Hey, we need a Lego guy smiley.

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The big one. It's around 3 feet long.

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Oh, wow... I'm jealous! I wanted that one, but there was no way I could afford it.

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Lego's are getting more expensive all the time....

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I dunno, I just bought the mini Star Destroyer, and it was only like $7... The big one I couldn't buy because it was so flippin' big. I believe it's like 3,000 Legos... I don't think $350 is unreasonable for a scale model that is over 3 feet long.

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Thanks to a handful of people (Calis, Bubbasan and Medron to name a few), I've been able to recover quite a bit of data I thought I lost. As soon as I can break out the old tower and set it up, I should recover a bit more. Yeah!!!!!!!!

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

Cool then maybe you can contribute to Battlecarp

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That's among the data lost.....

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

maybe we should send some of the Team Bansai techs over to help out Discord

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Uh, oh, Discord...watch out, or they'll be wiring toasters into your LAN...

Hey I said Team Bansai not Wobblies

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Arrrrrrgggghhhh! It happened again. Here's the newest sequence of events. I ran a virus scan, which showed nada. Then I shut down the computer. Everything was fine. (Except for falling asleep on the couch, but that's another story.) When Merc Chick started it up Weds. morning, it went straight to the HP recovery screen. I don't know what she pushed, but nothing worked. I was unable to do a partial recovery, non-destructive recovery and even the abandon-all-hope-kiss-your-data-goodbye-full recovery didn't work. I kept getting stupid error messages. (I don't know what a Fatal Systems Error is, but it doesn't sound good.) So, today I called the repair service I use, and after ignoring the HP recovery discs reloaded Windows XP. I didn't lose half as much this time, but it still hurt.

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

Sorry to hear that Discord. Do you need me to resend any of my files?

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If you would. I've still got a whloe bunch o' software to reinstall first.

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

I have asked Fredreick LeBeau to edit Hell Hath no Fury for me are you going to be able to do the PDF file for it or is your system too damaged

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Still crazy after all these years.
Force of nature : :
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Send it on over. I'm sure I can get to it soon. I'm taking a small break from cramming software back in.

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

Might I suggest putting your data on a different partition/disk? That way you can reinstall all your programs and still not lose any of your own files.

I need to do that same thing, myself...

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You can find Partition Magic 8 for under $30.

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I have found the cause of all my computer woes. I set up a camera to spy on my computer whilst I was away from it, and I found these on my keyboard. Geez. You spray and spray and they keep popping up.

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Weapons Free!

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"He closes his eyes and remembers the night splattered with brightness, the sudden flare of erupting fuel, the mad chase as, supersonic, he bobbed and weaved among the hills and valleys of the Ozarks, the laws on his tail, burning for home …"

A whole army fo them! That explain a lot

It looks like you need a cat Discord.
Or maybe a terrier.

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Well what a coincidance! I have two pretty little Kittens that just turned 8 weeks old and are now old enough to go to a new home... Solid black too, perfect for night operations.

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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have-Rush Limbaugh
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Still crazy after all these years.
Force of nature : :
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After hanging out in these forums for a while, you learn that Smurfs pop up in the weirdest places, and you can never quite get rid of them all...

I still like my theory that the Smurfs are behind the Jihad.

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Uhh...being a child of the 80s and all, I have to ask-which Smurf is holding a halberd????

The little-known Violent Smurf, of course!

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Actually, they're the collectible minis they had out a long time back. Merc Chick picked them up while stationed in Germany to use in a chess set.

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[img]http://www.heavymetalpro.com/countries/state-texas.gif[/img] "There's still a place for lighter equipment like the Banshee and Zeus....." Col. Thomas Hogarth LAAF

Hefty smurf, who else. Brainy would try, but would end up hurting himself....

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