Story of my life... rediculous amount of hard work followed by a brief period of moderate payoff, and then blammo, it's all up in smoke.
Bands that write and record an entire album just to break up, a years worth of blog entries and thousands of scanned photographs stored on an unbackedup harddrive that fries, pets that die, jobs that don't pan out, girlfriends that dump ya, you name it, it has happened to me.
Fortunately though, I've never repeated the same mistake twice... well, until now.
Relax, Carole still loves me (I hope!) - but I DID manage to blow away the database file of the nearly 600 movies that I own. This ain't just a database of movie titles either... it was loads of information about every movie - image of the DVD cover, list of all the actors, description, you name it - all sortable, searchable, and 'borrowable'. Yes, that's right - my friends regularily checkout what new movies I have, then click the borrow button, and I lend 'em out. Um, well, until now. That was so much work!!!!
I'm kinda pissed right now. I blame it on my cold. I've had a cold for a couple days now, but it got pretty bad today, and I had to come home from work a little early - I was just coughing and sneezing all over the place - not healthy for everyone else... so anyway, my head's all plugged up and my sinuses are full, and I've got that aweful ears-popped, "help, I'm trapped in my own head" feeling - but since I was home I thought I'd be a good boy and backup all my websites. When that was completed, I cleaned up (read: deleted) a couple of 'testing' websites that weren't in use... unfortunately, when I deleted one of the sites, it automatically removed it's database as well... BUT, that database was a SHARED database that several sites were using... one of those sites was my "Calvin's Movies" site - sooo, while all the html content is still there, the database is completely gone. It took me about 6 hours a day for a whole long weekend to enter all that information...
...what do you think, should I bother doing it all again? Or should I get a life...
i still love you too man...
when was the last time one of your friends borrowed a movie that way?
i would have like to take a look at your collection... i know you had a lot of vhs's back in the day i can't even imagine the dvd's you must own right now... my room mate is kinda like you sorta... the wall of cd's...the heaps of lp's which i don't think you have? and the othe wall of dvd's....well he has some wall mounted he biult for his dvd's...they are up above the sectional couch he bougt to go with his "entertainment" system he has... Owning Mahowny have you seen it? do you own it? my brother had to watch it in school and highly recomends it... he mentioned canada's "leaving las vegas" not word for word... i watched the trailer after he mentioned it and i really want to see it...
so if you do decide to run this databass will you send me a couple a movies once a month?it would be cheaper to rent them but cooler to know it's yours
and i can pawn it...
one more thing on another topic...
i was checking out wil weaton's blog... it's pretty neet... but he doesn't post everyday... so don't feel bad if you don't post everday... but my life gets a little more boring when you don't