Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Sunday, January 21, 2007
$115 later...
So after wallowing in self-obsession for a couple of hours, my brother pointed me to some software that seemed like the magic answer to my hard drive problems. It cost $90(US) and was a pain in the ass to make a boot disk out of (I purchased/downloaded it on my mum's PC which doesn't have a burner, and my PC doesn't have a floppy drive), but whatever it did, it seems to have done the trick. All of my artwork and photos are intact... for now. That's all I really cared about. I'm making back-up DVDs as I type.
Cautiously yours,
--Joe.
P.S. Thanks for the support, friends. You know who you are. Extra special thanks to my best mate Daniel who let me sob over his keyboard for an hour as I tried to burn an ISO of the boot disk using his virus-ridden computer.
Cautiously yours,
--Joe.
P.S. Thanks for the support, friends. You know who you are. Extra special thanks to my best mate Daniel who let me sob over his keyboard for an hour as I tried to burn an ISO of the boot disk using his virus-ridden computer.
You suck.
I fear the worst has happened. After a couple of days of my computer staggering and barely being able to start up (all this after a I purchased a new power supply and motherboard), today I think it finally called it quits. At least my hard drive did. Windows wouldn't load up at all. I tried re-installing, but after Setup checks my disks it comes to the unhappy conclusion that "Drive C has been corrupted". Drive C. I have over 20 Gigabytes of artwork and photos on Drive C.
This really throws a major spanner in the works. I was really looking forward to getting back to work and making something of myself this year. It's my first year out of uni, and my ambition was strong.
I don't really feel like talking about this a whole lot now. I guess tomorrow I'll be taking my computer into the service centre that it's practically been living at for the past few weeks. I'm sure they'll be glad to see me again. All I can hope for is that I can salvage some data from the hard drive. God knows where I'll get the money from.
I really thought things were gonna get back on track. Fuck this optimism. It always makes the crap stuff that much harder to take.
Thoroughly and utterly depressed,
--Joe.
This really throws a major spanner in the works. I was really looking forward to getting back to work and making something of myself this year. It's my first year out of uni, and my ambition was strong.
I don't really feel like talking about this a whole lot now. I guess tomorrow I'll be taking my computer into the service centre that it's practically been living at for the past few weeks. I'm sure they'll be glad to see me again. All I can hope for is that I can salvage some data from the hard drive. God knows where I'll get the money from.
I really thought things were gonna get back on track. Fuck this optimism. It always makes the crap stuff that much harder to take.
Thoroughly and utterly depressed,
--Joe.
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Lo, I am returned.
Lo, dear readers, rejoice, for I am returned once again to illuminate and rejuvenate these, the dark and dank recesses of the internet.
My computer decided to bite the dust about a month ago, hence my absence both from making drawings and posting said drawings here, for your immediate entertainment.
It's taken days of arduous travel, to and fro, from service centre to service centre, but I can finally boldly claim that my computer is now up and running at a robust 25% of it's former glory. There are still some kinks to iron out, but I am, for the most part, back.
It's been a great summer thus far, with my lovely Girlfriend-Girl down from her perch atop our magnificent brown island. Christmas was fun and eventful. I dressed up as a certain portly elf for the children, and also got some pretty rule-ass gifts myself.
Um, what else? Work's kinda been on a halt for a while, but I'm expecting that to turn around very soon. I'll keep you posted.
Also I went on a holiday somewhere in there too.
Anyway, this is a journal for my drawings, so here are some I've been hoarding for a while.
Started drawing at much higher resolutions, hence the cleaner line-work.
Click for a larger version.
Did this for Lucy's Christmas present. It's around A3 size in a nice curvy wooden frame. Click for a larger version.
Click for a larger version.
Click for a larger version.
Just mucking about.
What a cool mo-fo.
I figured I'd have to get this out of the way some day, so here it is.
A couple of old photos of my Mum as a kid that I scanned in and restored.
Glamour!
So yeah, that's about it. It's good to be back. I find that I feel most secure when I'm in some kind of a routine, and after a year of keeping this journal, and a month or so without it, I've realised that it's something I definitely want to continue doing. Plus, I'm a glutton for approval, so it's always nice to have a forum for people to tell me how great I am. Keep it up, friends!
Love,
--Joe.
My computer decided to bite the dust about a month ago, hence my absence both from making drawings and posting said drawings here, for your immediate entertainment.
It's taken days of arduous travel, to and fro, from service centre to service centre, but I can finally boldly claim that my computer is now up and running at a robust 25% of it's former glory. There are still some kinks to iron out, but I am, for the most part, back.
It's been a great summer thus far, with my lovely Girlfriend-Girl down from her perch atop our magnificent brown island. Christmas was fun and eventful. I dressed up as a certain portly elf for the children, and also got some pretty rule-ass gifts myself.
Um, what else? Work's kinda been on a halt for a while, but I'm expecting that to turn around very soon. I'll keep you posted.
Also I went on a holiday somewhere in there too.
Anyway, this is a journal for my drawings, so here are some I've been hoarding for a while.
Started drawing at much higher resolutions, hence the cleaner line-work.
Click for a larger version.
Did this for Lucy's Christmas present. It's around A3 size in a nice curvy wooden frame. Click for a larger version.
Click for a larger version.
Click for a larger version.
Just mucking about.
What a cool mo-fo.
I figured I'd have to get this out of the way some day, so here it is.
A couple of old photos of my Mum as a kid that I scanned in and restored.
Glamour!
So yeah, that's about it. It's good to be back. I find that I feel most secure when I'm in some kind of a routine, and after a year of keeping this journal, and a month or so without it, I've realised that it's something I definitely want to continue doing. Plus, I'm a glutton for approval, so it's always nice to have a forum for people to tell me how great I am. Keep it up, friends!
Love,
--Joe.
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