I don't know how I could use a blower. It is an external hd and the only way to get to innards would be to remove screws, and I fear if I do that, that no data recovey place will take it.

anyhoo - it is worsened by the fact that although I had bought a back-up in Nov, I never even took it out of the box.

I know my dream is unlikely to be very interesting to anyone else, but it's so vividly present in my mind that I really want to share it. Feel free to skip.

I had a dream where students at my school were being modified by Death Eaters to, in one case, create fire and, in another, just be able to withstand fire. Then they were put in a car crossing the border but they refused to attack the US and turned away before they got to immigration and headed toward Iranian immigration before they caught on fire.

Yes, apparently we share a border with Iran in this dream.

Then they were taken prisoner and tried to explain and one of them eventually fell in love with her Iranian captor and lived with him in his palatial villa, although she could only come out and use the pool when the rest of his family was in the second laundry room -- the place was so big that they'd be gone the entire day. Despite this, it was pretty romantic, although there was some intrigue going on about how the genetic mutations were being spread -- it turned out it was through money. Sneaky Death Eaters.

In more real-life news, I just sent one thouuuusand dollars to my credit card.

Damn, that feels good.

It's morning.

I do not approve.

I work in an IT dept.

person 1 "My Blackberry is a lifesaver."
person 2 "...Blackberry light sabre...I might get one if they made a Blackberry light sabre."

you can imagine, it continued from there.

It's morning.

It's stil dark out here, so I choose not to accept this reality.

It's stil dark out here, so I choose not to accept this reality.

I've been trying not to, but my roommate's ridiculously loud alarm went off at 6:30am this morning, so I've had a while to get used to the idea.

You get to wake up later than 6:30 am?

Nice.

Daily Puppy!

but my roommate's ridiculously loud alarm went off at 6:30am this morning for no reason I could discern

She's up studying for a test. At least, that's what she tells me.

I'm sorry it's ridiculously loud, though. My husband really needs to learn that on days when he doesn't have to work, he can't hit the snooze button on my alarm.

You get to wake up later than 6:30 am?

I probably should get up at 6:30am, but I do not. Getting up at 7am makes me murderous enough, thank you.

She's up studying for a test.

Yeah, exams. I just wish she hadn't kept hitting snooze for 45 minutes. 'Cause, seriously, I think her alarm probably wakes up half the building.