Hobo Tip of the Day

a few days ago i spent a long time blogging and my post was lost after writing for a long time.

today i finally gave in after realizing that my extra backup hard drive i purchased a few months ago has failed and i am not left without all the files i put on there.

fortunately i still have all my pictures. i would be devastated if i lost them. i must reback them up now. i have all the music that was on mine and kristina's ipods. i lost lots of music, but i kept most of the best.

i lost all the documents i have saved since high school. i also lost all the ds games i downloaded that are not on my ds card as well as all of my computer games (civilization 4, fallout 3 [the reason i upgraded all of my hardware], colonization, some others games too i think, and a huge list of downloaded movies and shows i had planned to watch.

there is probably other things i cannot think of now that were lost, but it is okay because all the most important stuff was backed up and most of it is replaceable.

kristina's external hard drive also has recently broken ( a few days ago ) so i am feeling very upset with technology. i am currently reinstalling vista on her computer after uninstalling it and reinstalling XP because vista was running crappy. microsoft made all of the drivers for her hardware vista only so she would not be able to watch movies or listen to music or use her network card on XP....so stupid!

Im excited about Obama...more excited than I have been so far with him...he is actually doing things he said he would. I just wish he would close guantanmo bay sooner than a year from now.

Being unemployed so far has been nice. I have been getting some small stuff done and relaxing quite a bit. I need to make a new list of goals and try to focus on getting things done next week. I wanted to sell my car but looking on craigslist I have seen that my car is selling for half of what I was expecting to get for it. This might be from people not having money because of the economy. Maybe I should hold on to it longer...at least until the President gives out either refunds or more stimulus checks. I don't want to sell too low.

Tonight me and Kristina broke out all of my old CD's, it is fun to look at all the artwork. I haven't looked at some of the artwork in years. I sold some of the ones I never listened to or didn't want anymore sometime when I was in Las Vegas but I still have about 150-200.

Soon I am going to get a replacement needle and stereo system to play my record player and then I can break out the record collection which will be even more fun to look at. One thing I read to do to save money is to go through all your old things instead of buying new things. You might have something you forgot about or haven't played with enough! That is my unemployed hobo tip of the day!