Subject: Re: crapy day

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

HellPope Huey
<hellpopehuey@subspamgeenyus.com> wrote:
> xenu says...
> >
> >any one else have a crappy day to day
> >>I got put on report for arguing with my team leader. oh never mind you
> >would have to know the academy rules to understand.
>
> I assume he's a Pink, so next time, knock him down and crap on his chest.
> He'll either leave you alone from then on because you'll have called his bluff as
> the bully he is or you'll be booted and either way you'll have more Slack. You'll
> eventually learn to think the Dobbs way and these solutions will come to you
> on your own.

Huey, you FOOL! Don't tell him to quit his job YET! I don't think Dobbs
has seen his $30 yet.

(Although he or she might be on the list under something besides
"xenu".)

Xenu, I too had a crappy day yesterday. It started at 1 in the morning
when I suddenly WOKE UP (I had only been asleep for an hour), filled
with DREAD that my business was collapsing and I wasn't doing enough. I
couldn't sleep. I ran upstairs to my office and turned on all the
computers and then realized, "What the fuck??" So I decided to just
fiddle about a bit until sleepiness returned; FUCK the business.

I sat at my computer and thought, "Well, should I answer email, try to
start updating SubSITE, or... hmmm, maybe the FIRST thing I should do
is make solid safety back-ups of all this TIME CONSUMING ANIMATION I
rendered earlier. So I burned a couple of safety CDs and told the
computer to Shut Down, and headed back down the stairs -- until i heard
an OMINOUS DING. On the screen was a statement that said (I
paraphrase):

"Something has gone FUCKED with your 60 gig LaCie exterior hard drive
and if you don't copy everything you can off of it immediately, you're
HOSED."

To make a long story short, I was up all night and all yesterday and
indeed, I was hose. I guess lightning must have shot up that drive's
butt or something, because not the combined might of Tech Tool and Disk
Doctor were enough to peel the data off of there. (Surprisingly enough,
SOME RANDOM FILES were scavengeable, though Norton Unerase couldn't
find 'em; Tech Tool's data rescue did).

The good news is, I'm not a dumbass about EVERYTHING, and I did indeed
have back-ups of everything on badly labeled CD-RWs. Thanks to the
burners donated by RevDrJack and Rev. Ed Strange.

But it's still a pain in the ass to have to go through the rigamarole
of refilling the god damned thing, and double checking it, and
wondering WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED and will it happen again. This fucker
is still under warranty. This is the second time it's happened (the
first, I was able to completely restore the data, but I never learned
what caused the problem).

The good upshot was that this accident prompted me to retire the
relatively young 20 gig Muleskinner 3 Hard Drive and replace it with
the new Maxtor MULE 4, 80 gigs donated by REV. KUCHARO, Coolest Sub of
the Month.

So, although my day yesterday was rather fucked and depressing, I start
today out with 60 MORE gigs of video storage space than I had before
the crash! And freshly swept-out other drives. All optimized and
hoopty-dooptied.

I still have to carefully replace all the parts of the project I was
working on. But that will be FUN and it'll probably improve the project
(a SubG video compilation, of the ARISE type rather than the home movie
type).

I sure am glad I had gone to the BORING, TEDIOUS trouble of making all
those half-labeled back-up CD-RWs.

Tomorrow I shall hunt down a proper back-up program such as Retrospect.
Thanks to REVEREND KUCHARO's donation, I can finally set up a proper
circle-jerk of back-up whereby each of the 3 drives is backed up by its
neighbor.

Now if some motherfucker were to send the Church in Cleveland a great
tape back-up system or something less demanding on my drives, Ahhh Yes.

But just so you know, you weren't the only one to have a shitty day
that day. I'm on an EXTREMELY tight schedule, not all self imposed, and
having to lose a day or 2 arbitrarily because of ligtning up some
machine's butt, PISSES ME OFF!!

Now that I have described it, it is behind me and I shan't be pissed
off until the NEXT FUCKED UP PIECE OF SHIT THING HAPPENS!!

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Subject: Re: crapy day
From: dode <dode(pee)@tystie.com>

xenu wrote:

> any one else have a crappy day to day
> I got put on report for arguing with my team leader. oh never mind
> you would have to know the academy rules to understand.

Academy? Team Leader? are you on medication? Why aren't you a team
leader? Why aren't you abusing your power to torture feeble members
members? Why aren't you paying attention?

Every time I start believing I'm having a bad day I think of the
poor starving Afghanis and thank "Bob" that he has arranged a
swift death by bomblet rather than the slow tortured starvation
that fate had planned for them.

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