It would be safe to say I have a lot on my mind at the moment. For starters, I have recently noticed I’m going into the IT industry… This means I can do pretty much any job that requires a computer. Thanks to my year in industry working for a big American bank I just assumed I would slot back into one of those, after all, hours are good, company is big and job security is high not to mention pay is very good. However, I could also go work for a charity and end up running their IT systems, or could go into the education industry, either lecturing or running their systems, after all I have enough experience at the latter. In fact, I’m slightly scared and at the same time very comforted by this thought, especially given I’m not exactly putting my all into my course at the moment. In fact I may be pushed into some interesting decisions soon, some that I never expected… then again, a lot has happened this year I didn’t expect and its far from all bad.
As for some of the things on my mind. Well here things really do get complicated. Basically Demelza’s laptop failed on Monday night. I arranged for a Jonner’s to go round and attack it with Linux live CD and see what he could do. The answer wasn’t much. I went up Tuesday night and had a look at it. It didn’t look good. I stayed the night and left her with my laptop to keep her working. So Wednesday night I had a bit more of look with the very proactive assistance from Will and Nick. Now we come to Thursday. I planned to get up early but clearly this conspired against me as I was woken by Will at 10:30. We made our way into Sussex campus to collect an adapter to plug the drive into. This idea also failed. Then it so happened that Fouad at the labs had an almost identical disk. So after a bit of analysis we thought swapping the controller boards over may help. However this required a screwdriver bit no-one had. So, as it was lunch time, road trip home with Fouad, Dan, Myself and Will. After a spot of lunch in he rain back on campus we made the swap. Still no luck. From here myself and Will left for town with a big list of places to ask who may do data recovery. Although many of them did this issue is fairly well beyond most of them. So with a couple of other items from the list like mother day gifts complete we made our way home where this evening we have been very lazy as both of us are pretty dead from the day (along with the rest of the house).
Tomorrow should be interesting (well, Today now). Fouad is driving home tomorrow morning where home happens to be north London and home to the top entry on a Google search for data recovery. So I phoned them this evening and I’m going to drop the drive off with them so they can tell me just how bad it really is (I have a pretty good idea and there is a slim chance they can get the data back, but I’m not getting my hopes up in case). From there I will be going to Roehampton to find Demelza and then will be going back to Horsham for the weekend so she can finally meet my family. Her stress levels must be through the roof. As it is mine are and it’s not even my data and I know my family pretty well at this point.
A lot of my stress level is can be attributed to the fact that as a fairly OK person in the realm of fixing computers, I’m not used to not being able to fix it, especially when it’s this important (the data is what I would call mission critical).
So all in all, not great at all.
Sleep time me thinks, I have to be out at 9 when my lift arrives.