This is a “Holiday”?
I need to be working on my Physics lab for today. I’ll have to get that done in a minute. Doing this one is probably going to suck since I did so terribly on the last one. I should have set up that web conference with the professor, but, well, I didn’t. My brother and his fiancee came down to visit for the weekend, and…come to think of it, we didn’t even really hang out. But Zack and I went out drinking a couple times, which eats up far too much time and money and doesn’t make me feel like doing homework.
My History of Broadcasting class was cancelled today, which is awesome because I hate going down there. Also, it gives me more time to read and study for the test, which was supposed to be today, but is now postponed until next week. And speaking of tests, I did far better than I expected on my Environmental Health test last week - 94%! I only missed two, although I don’t know which two. In a way, I really can’t wait to be done with school, but it also makes me kind of nervous because then I’m going to have to get a full-time job, nay, a career. That scares me a little bit.
My new external hard drive is really starting to aggravate me. I was a little wary of the brand, because I’ve never heard of SimpleTech before, but it was 500GB for $130, so I went for it, because that’s more space than I even need. The software that it came with sucks though - it’s actually great on the Mac, for which I already had backup software anyway, but the PC version is horrible. I’m trying to back my stuff up/delete some of it from the PC’s hard drive, but this software makes some kind of funky .exe file that has to be opened with the software to “restore from backup” (the Mac versions doesn’t do that; it actually copies the files in such a manner that they can be accessed simply by opening them from the drive). Also, I let it run for like 3 hours last night trying to back up about 80GB worth of data (before I knew about the funky format of the backups), eventually went to bed, and it backed up nothing. Zack said that it was done when he shut it off, but that piece of crap doesn’t even know that I ever tried to use it (”last backup: never”)! So, when I figured out that going through the software is a waste of time, I decided to just start dragging and dropping files. It acts like that is working, but then it keeps giving me errors on certain files, which would be fine, except that it seems to skip a whole lot of files other than the ones that are actually giving the errors. Maybe I should have just gotten the little portable 120GB Maxtor or Western Digital, both of which were on sale for $75 at Best Buy.
