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An Interesting Few Days
Mar. 20th, 2026 12:49 pmWell…
A couple of things, first, I decided a couple of mornings ago to get out the drive with all the recovered files on it and see what I'm dealing with and what kind of form factor I needed. I took it out of its box and discovered that it was smooth plastic with one connector on one of the short ends, and the cable I needed was in the box too – of course I plugged it in and explored what was there. I've got some files that are corrupted, including one file I was hoping to have on hand – a file on different RPG character races that I put a decent amount of work into; the file is corrupted, so Excel can't open it, and what else I've tried isn't working either. I've got a pair of mirrored 1TB hard drives from my server, and I'm sure a better version of it is on those, but one has a whole bunch of tiny partitions on it while the other one has errors that will, based on the estimate Scandisk gives me, well over a year to resolve them. So things aren't smooth sailing all the way yet.
I spent several hours in the garage this morning, and my roommate has managed to turn it into a disaster area. There are several things I still can't find, though I did find the cable between my 8-bus mixer and its 24 channel sidecar. I also identified several things that can go to a new home – I'm still on the fence about selling my brewing equipment, because I can't do anything with it here, there's not a good space for vinting and mazery here where I can control temperatures enough to let the yeasts do their things.
I've been concerned about my main credit card getting up there – I prefer to live with as little debt as possible, because I can't afford to have monthly interest charges in my budget. For a long time I lived with only my mortgage as a monthly interest-bearing debt. I want to drop about a grand in that account to bring the total down a lot, and I have cash on hand to do that. This got a whole lot easier yesterday (the roommate doesn't read me mail on a regular basis, so some things can be a bit behind) when I got the escrow overage check from my mortgage company – it was close to $500. But I also got a check from a class action suit regarding my student loans which is around $250, so the two together will take up most of the grand I want to use to drop my revolving debt down a lot. I want to keep the cash on hand as high as possible since I'm dealing with significant house repair issues right now.
A couple of things, first, I decided a couple of mornings ago to get out the drive with all the recovered files on it and see what I'm dealing with and what kind of form factor I needed. I took it out of its box and discovered that it was smooth plastic with one connector on one of the short ends, and the cable I needed was in the box too – of course I plugged it in and explored what was there. I've got some files that are corrupted, including one file I was hoping to have on hand – a file on different RPG character races that I put a decent amount of work into; the file is corrupted, so Excel can't open it, and what else I've tried isn't working either. I've got a pair of mirrored 1TB hard drives from my server, and I'm sure a better version of it is on those, but one has a whole bunch of tiny partitions on it while the other one has errors that will, based on the estimate Scandisk gives me, well over a year to resolve them. So things aren't smooth sailing all the way yet.
I spent several hours in the garage this morning, and my roommate has managed to turn it into a disaster area. There are several things I still can't find, though I did find the cable between my 8-bus mixer and its 24 channel sidecar. I also identified several things that can go to a new home – I'm still on the fence about selling my brewing equipment, because I can't do anything with it here, there's not a good space for vinting and mazery here where I can control temperatures enough to let the yeasts do their things.
I've been concerned about my main credit card getting up there – I prefer to live with as little debt as possible, because I can't afford to have monthly interest charges in my budget. For a long time I lived with only my mortgage as a monthly interest-bearing debt. I want to drop about a grand in that account to bring the total down a lot, and I have cash on hand to do that. This got a whole lot easier yesterday (the roommate doesn't read me mail on a regular basis, so some things can be a bit behind) when I got the escrow overage check from my mortgage company – it was close to $500. But I also got a check from a class action suit regarding my student loans which is around $250, so the two together will take up most of the grand I want to use to drop my revolving debt down a lot. I want to keep the cash on hand as high as possible since I'm dealing with significant house repair issues right now.
