Well… what has been happening since i got back. Everything was going smoothly after arriving back home after all the flying around. Life was cruising along. I was trying to rehab myself a little after 6-7 weeks of drinking every day (hah.. sif that will ever happen again). I was enjoying myself, spending a bit of the leftover travel money. Bought myself a new phone, some new clothes (ready for all stars and the xmas party). Bought some jerseys and some stuff from thinkgeek (books, duct tape stuff, a new tie) and then bought two new monitors for the computer.

So with mary getting a face lift i thought everything was gonna be sweet. not even 2 days after the facelift, Mary decides to have a breakdown on me. Primary Hard drive corrupts. This would normally be ok cause i dont normally store anything else on the primary. Cept when i bought mary i had a TB drive as the primary and stupidly partitioned the photos onto the same drive. OMG i am stupid.

Panic sets In. i try to back up the photos one night and let it back up over night (i have 44gig of photos on this machine, its all my photos for the last 5 years). I wake up the next morning and its frozen in the middle of a boot sequence. So thinking that my photos didnt get backed up in time i panic even more. The computer wont boot, it just keeps blue screening and rebooting. I am in full on panic mode as now i can’t even get access to my photos or my emails. Thankfully i have my laptop (Frenchie… thanks for the name michelle) so I was still able to keep in touch with the world (i am such an internet addict) and check up on possible causes/fixes. I leave it till wednesday on my day off. I try everything to get it working again. Fresh installs, repair install. Nothing is working the drive is screwed. So Off I go to spend more $$ to pretty much turn Mary into a fully brand new machine. New hard drives, New OS, picked up a USB hard drive caddy as well so i could isolate the corrupted drive while trying to recover data.

Managed to get her working after spending all day working on it. First thing i find. My photos. Backed up on the secondary drive. all of the photos to. I was just happy as! So that was hurdle #1 over. I instantly backed them up again to my external Hard drive so i have a double back up (something I will be doing quite often i think). So then yesterday, Geoff drops off some software for me to try and I have to use a round about way to recover it, but the effort was worth it. I managed to recover my emails from the old hard drive. Hurdle #2 is fixed! What a relief. I wasn’t able to recover any of my work files I had on this machine or anything else that was in my documents etc (never came up on the recovered data) but the emails were more important to me really.

I guess all in all, that its fine. Now I just need to get it all fixed up and running and my life will be back in check. O and the new phone i bought. They ran out of the colours i wanted. I think im gonna get stuck with pink 🙁

arrived safely in japan… some lumpy bits but nothing bad. i ate today for the first time in several days and im feeling pretty good.

the hotel room i have at the nikko narita is TINY!!!!!! I do have a good view of the airport but cant see the runway 🙁 o well…

hopefully get some spotting in tommorrow after i check out.

Current Location: Hotel Nikko Narita, Narita, Japan

well its been quite a while since the last update. Life has been pretty busy and i have been really slack. It’s down to like 6 weeks till i go.

a few more problems have arisen. My travel agent quit without telling me. So a few problems have arisen since then with transfers and refunds etc but the new manager of the store is fixing that up.

things are getting closer. Need to get my $$$ exchanged soon. Life has been a bit all over the place with a lot of changes here and there, but life moves forward… can’t live in the past!

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Well im sure you all know about twitter… well ive been tempted for a while to join, but i have been interested before it all came in fashion. And i don’t like being called a sheep… i mean i just could not stand it!

I was on facebook before it became cool, myspace before it became cool (now myspace is crap and everyone left so i have to admit i dont really check it). I had a blog before it was cool (you see a trend here right). But the thing is for a long time i have seen the smart thing behind twitter, but now i feel like if i sign up i will become “another sheep” and i dont think i could handle that.

I know it will come in handy while im OS as i could just twitter from my phone with a quick message to let everyone know where I am etc. How cool would that be. But alas.. Do i commit to becoming a twit?

o who am i kidding, of course i will!!! Friday night was the big Avis party. Always such a good night, although this year not as big as previous years but it was fun to get dressed up for no reason at all!! This year it was a Red Party and being that I am who I am and prefer to be a bit different, I went as a Red Neck. Thankfully Sarah decided to come along as a Redneck with me, we was Redneck Cousins!!

It was a good night, I am pretty sure i drank a little to much (ok a LOT to much) cause i was pretty sick but i sucked it up and went to work yesterday still. That was the hardest struggle was going to work the next day!!! o how much trouble i would be in if i didnt go to work… but i sucked it up!

here be the photos!!

Avis Party 2009

I would just like to take this opportunity to tell the world that I am extremely proud and touched to of had the chance to be with my best mate Brendan as he got married yesterday. It meant a lot to be there for him and get him whatever he needed and to be his right hand man (funnily enough i sat at his right side at the dinner… hahaha).

It was an amazing day and I know that everyone there had a good time. I know that there was stress for everyone in the days leading up to it and on the day but it all was worth it. Suzanne looked stunning, Brendan was cool and calm and did not have a worry at all!! (I made sure of that).

All was good and a fantastic day was had by all!!!

Photos are here:

From Brendan & Suzannes Wedding