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Post by Keira on Sept 3, 2007 15:29:54 GMT -5
What a little punk.
I'm thrilled you've found some on your work computer  I love when little miracles like that happen.
About a month ago, the motherboard on my laptop died and they were able to get all my data off and save it onto an external harddrive. The harddrive itself cost me about $35 for an 80 GB, which is pretty good. I used to always been really paranoid about losing everything I had, so I'd email it to myself once in a while so I'd have back ups that way... but I have to say that this harddrive is the best $35 investment I've ever made. If I want to transfer something onto it, all I have to do is hook it up to a USB port and drag the file into whatever file I want and voila! I've taken to calling it my portable computer, w/o a screen or keyboard of course, lol.
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Post by Des on Sept 3, 2007 19:09:33 GMT -5
I may have to invest in one of those soon. I'm having to rewrite chapters 16-18 using my handwritten notes, and that means translating it from German to English as I go. But, at least I didn't lose all of it-----for that I am grateful.  |
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Post by hahukumkonn on Sept 3, 2007 20:46:43 GMT -5
Hmm - there ARE undeleters for 98SE (In fact it's easier because FAT32 is "simpler" than NTFS). If you haven't written any new files to your 98SE computer, then if you know a "geek" with another 98SE box they can plug your drive in, run an undeleter, and recover files as long as nothing has been written on top of them.
You might be able to get even your chapters 16 through 18 back. *crosses fingers*
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Post by zevie on Sept 3, 2007 20:57:45 GMT -5
Oy, artemis - do you have to read the Stephen King things first?
Glad you got the stuffs back, Des. Man, you sound like a great guardian - if it'd had been me, I would certainly not have shown that much patience. I would totally have gone mental on his a**.
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Post by Keira on Sept 3, 2007 23:16:32 GMT -5
I'm having to rewrite chapters 16-18 using my handwritten notes, and that means translating it from German to English as I go. But, at least I didn't lose all of it-----for that I am grateful. |
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Post by Des on Sept 4, 2007 6:29:10 GMT -5
Glad you got the stuffs back, Des. Man, you sound like a great guardian - if it'd had been me, I would certainly not have shown that much patience. I would totally have gone mental on his a**. I did go mental....that's why it took me almost four hours before I could go within hands reach of him. ;D I wanted to twist his little head right off his shoulders.  Ja, Keira. I'm German, and have been all my life. I stayed in Munich when my family moved to the States back in 1988, and came to NC when my father had his heart attack last November to take care of the boys. I'll be here until all of them are out of high school and firmly established in college, and then my rear is heading back to my homeland.  |
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Post by Keira on Sept 4, 2007 8:58:14 GMT -5
Ja, Keira. I'm German, and have been all my life. I stayed in Munich when my family moved to the States back in 1988, and came to NC when my father had his heart attack last November to take care of the boys. |
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Post by Des on Sept 4, 2007 12:27:57 GMT -5
-laughing-
My English is close to perfect thanks to 6 years of lessons, but it's much different in person. I can write it quite well, but it loses a lot in the translation when I try to pronounce the words with my accent still intact.
I still catch myself talking to the boys in German, especially when I'm mad or upset about something. They get a kick out of it, though, and accuse me of swearing at them so they can't understand me.
I'm sadly out of practice speaking it since I only needed it for holidays when I came to visit my Pop and siblings, so I'm trying to use it more around the house, and in communicating with work even though they could care less what language I use as long as I do my job.
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Post by zickachik73 on Sept 4, 2007 15:36:13 GMT -5
What do you do, Des? It's not many jobs that can be completed, regardless of language. Maybe you work with numbers?
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Post by Des on Sept 4, 2007 17:07:18 GMT -5
Good guess, Zick! I'm an international tax accountant for one of the BMW exporters. I've had to learn English, Japanese, Korean, and just enough Spanish to get my rear kicked if I ever went to Mexico. |
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Post by Keira on Sept 4, 2007 19:48:23 GMT -5
Wow.
I'd love to learn a more than the two languages I know (English - duh - and American Sign Language) but I don't have much patience for it. We'll see though. I do know enough Italian and French to tell people I have no idea how to speak Italian and French... and to perhaps find a bathroom or the right car on the train, but that's not so helpful in the long run, since it's pretty easy to find someone speaking English, lol.
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Post by Des on Sept 4, 2007 20:38:15 GMT -5
I seem to have a knack for languages for some reason. I catch on quite fast by listening to someone else speak them, and by writing them, but out of all, English was the hardest for me to learn. There is just so much slang and a lot of words that sound the same, yet mean different things. I have major trouble with 'than' and 'then' and the various derivitives of they're, their, and there----- and the you're and your riddle has finally been explained to me by my brother, so I've got it figured out. |
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Post by zickachik73 on Sept 4, 2007 21:04:18 GMT -5
way to stay on topic, mars.
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Post by zevie on Sept 4, 2007 21:06:18 GMT -5
SHOW OFF.
Spill, mars. You've got a bunch of monkeys shackled to your laptop, don't you. Nanowrimo must be like child's play!
...I'm not jealous...
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Post by fairlane on Sept 4, 2007 21:46:50 GMT -5
Ever since I posted in the Angela Shepard thread the other day I've had an idea for a story about her pregnancy. I wish I'd stop getting ideas for stories I don't have time to write lol. Although it would only be like three chapters long so I might do it. I practically have it written in my head already lol.
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I love when little miracles like that happen. 
