I feel like someone who just kicked a major drug addiction...I've got all this free time on my hands and can't seem to find anything to DO with it.

Actually that's not true.  Right now I'm in the process of trying to move a couple terabytes of data across my home network so I can back it up on the one reliable machine I have - a task I've put off far too long - and then wipe the drives on the other machine and throw a fresh install of Windows on it.

Obviously, this will take some time, and thus I work on other things while that task is running in the background.  Like...writing blog entries.

Once I get all the stuff moved and backed up, it's time to organize the heck out of myself.  I've got...jeez, close to ten years worth of stuff, more in some cases, on those old drives.  Some things, I've lost - most painfully, a lot of old photos and WOW screenshots that I'd like to have been able to keep.  I'll hold on to the completely broken drives that stuff is on, until I can have enough cash in hand to send them someplace for repair.  I'm not sure about all of everything, but I know there's just a mechanical problem with the two WD drives I built my last new machine with...sounds like some kind of read arm control is spazzing out, and they both do exactly the same thing...which is why I'll never buy another WD drive.

I actually found a couple of captured Gypsy Blue clips...not even entire songs, but wtf it's something.  It still chaps me that I have so little actual audio, video, or pics from those days...and now I don't have a way to patch a RCA or S-vid cable in to my system, so I can't cap 'em.  Just gotta hope they'll hold up until a solution makes itself available, I guess.

Sammy called me last night, that made me quite the happy fella.  We think so alike, and yet she's balances me as well...I really hope this works out.

Enjoyed saying bye to WOW...to my surprise I actually had a day longer than I thought, and I didn't even play it...just posted a couple of long message to the server forums, in response to which the same old idiot posted the same old crap.  It really seems like after the internet has had this much time to grow, people would think of NEW insults, but they don't.  Same old crap...a bunch of knuckledraggers hiding behind a keyboard with a bag of cheetos and an orange dick, laboring under delusions of adequacy while doing their best impression of a mosquito mounting a full frontal assault on a buffalo.  People like that...they're the same whether they're on RSPW, WOW, the AdSense help groups, or any other forum.

I wonder if it ever dawns on them that they - their mentality, their way of thinking and dealing with the world - is exactly what's wrong with us as a species?  Probably not...people like that have no more self-awareness than the average box of hammers, and about the same level of critical thinking skill.  And yet...I really wish I could help them. Given the level of misery they project into the world, and their general incompetence of expression...how truly miserable must they be in their lives?

I suppose I am just as foolish for letting them live in my head...but it's the tree-hugging hippie type in me, I guess.  I see a problem, I want to find a solution...and meaningful solution.  A 45th-trimester abortion certain SOUNDS like a great idea on paper for folks like this, but it's not really fair or practice.  After all, chances are pretty good that they didn't teach themselves to think and act like this, but were taught by their parents, and so forth, unto the ancient generations and so on.  Nobody is beyond redemption...I guess my flaw - well, one of them - is the tendency to think *I* have to redeem everyone who needs it.

I guess I'm finally growing up a bit, or something.  I just find myself more often wanting to find and encourage the good in people, rather than just taking snarky potshots at them.

I'm going to have to find another game, I suppose.  All work and no play, and all that.  But right now that's not on my radar...I got things to do.

Guess I'll go do some of them now. Peace.