what constitutes a good day? how do you know when you're having one? is it a feeling as soon as you wake up? who knows…

i know that when i woke up to discover i'd only downloaded about 4 folders of data that seth has salvaged from the burned out husk of my old hard drive, i wasn't too thrilled. don't get me wrong…i'm ecstatic to be getting a majority of the data back. i am not, however, happy about the slow process of downloading it all. couple this with the fact that the replacement drive that western digital sent me appears to be bad (tons of bad sectors, not formatting right…just a good ol' time), and you have a very unhappy brian. but the data is being saved, so i'm gonna try to remain positive about this.

but seriously…how awful is it to replace a bad hard drive with…another bad hard drive? do they even have a quality control department? seriously?

update on the "motherfucker" situation: still getting the stink eye. something tells me i'm not one of his favorite people, these days. damn. i'm totally heartbroken.