Open a 10.5 MB text file in WordPad. Go ahead, just try it! My poor computer is still trying to deal with it, ten minutes later. Heh, okay, so it wasn't meant to be opened as a text file, and in fact it didn't really originate as a text file, it's my Frontier database root. But I want some info out of it, and it's corrupt so Frontier can't read it properly. So.....
I'm having a bad computer day; can you tell? Add to that a cold, and a kidney that hurts now every time I sneeze (not a good sign), and it's not the best of days in many respects. Not that it's all been bad, though; I got to talk to Jev via Netmeeting this morning, and that's always a nice way to start my day.
I won't bore you with the details of how I corrupted the Frontier database, but the end result was that I lost several entries I'd just typed in, and hadn't made into web pages yet. Most of them I can just retype, but about a third of the last one was written on the fly, so that would be hard to reproduce. I did recover most of the lost entries, by opening the file in my C++ compiler, but it complained that some lines were too long, and it didn't show that last entry, so I'm hoping WordPad might be of some help. Somehow, I don't think it's going to happen.
The combination of being sick and slightly feverish, missing Jev something fierce, and trying to sleep despite both in the middle of a thunderstorm, made for some very interesting dreams last night. Namely one where it was already Spring Break, and Jev was here with me, sharing my bed, and sleeping nude. Or not sleeping, as the case so happened to be. I'll leave that up to your imagination... I was just a little disappointed when I woke up to discover that I was curled up with my body pillow, and not Jev.
I think it's time to give up on WordPad. It will stop grinding away at the hard drive, but still won't redraw the window or let me interact in any way. Time for a three-finger salute! Okay, it's much quieter in here, now. Looks like I'll have to try to recreate that entry after all.
Okay, now I feel sheepish... QuickView opens the file and can scroll through it decently... I just couldn't seem to find the darn program earlier, and I was to lazy too dig out my Win 98 disk to install it. Oh well... I right clicked on the file and bingo, there was the option for Quick View. *sigh* Still, the entries cut off right at the same place... no more of the lost entry to be found. Figures...
Anyway, I'm feeling icky, so I'm going to go take something and see if I can get to feeling better.
The bath and some cold medicine helped quite a bit, and when I'd fed the cats and hopped back online, Jev was waiting for me.
Unfortunately, from what he said, it sounded to me like he was going to spend the entire evening doing things other than spending time with me, and after all the time he's been off working, that didn't go over really well. I'd expected him to go to dinner with his friend, and even to go to the ball game, but a reinstallation of Win 98 was the straw that broke this camel's back. I didn't think I should come second to a stupid computer!
Jev didn't seem to see it the same way, and though I didn't realize it, he's really been needing some time out away from his room and his roomie and all his surroundings. I really didn't mind him wanting to go to the game, I'd heard his acquaintance across the hall come ask him yesterday if he was going to go, but at that time, he'd thought he would have to work.
Things blew up, again, and I felt really terrible, after I read the two journal entries Jev mentioned that he'd put up. He felt really bad about missing me online last night, when I hopped back on after a thunderstorm had passed -- he was across the hall playing video games at the time -- and then add to that the fact that I was upset over his plans for this evening. So I was reallly feeling pretty low for a while there.
I did insist that he go to the game though... once I knew he needed to get out, that was just a given. He missed going to dinner with his friend, but at the time he said it didn't matter, and he says that installing Win 98 again can wait until tomorrow, or later, so that means he's all mine, once he gets back from the game. I just hope I'm awake enough to enjoy his company! With this cold, I've been pretty run down by time he gets online in the evening... and he's been pretty run down for working 6 hour shifts stocking shelves at the bookstore.
I'm not sure what we'll be doing, but he did say he'd help me with one little hitch in a script he wrote me for Frontier. Right now, on the index page where it generates the list of most recent entries, it's doing something very strange with the date on the most recent entry. It didn't do that when we tested it on his computer, so now we have a bug to track down.
I wonder if we get that one stomped, if he'd be willing to write another rendering script for me, I've got a little something in mind....
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