So tonight I finished sending an email, and accidentally dropped my laptop. It fell a foot and a half and what should happen? After calling tech support, because it wouldn't boot up, I'm told it's a damaged hard drive! That's the bad news. Actually there's more bad news. And this is one that I'm most upset about. I had totally revamped 12 chapters in the story that I'm writing, and unless there's a way of extracting that information I have just lost it all! I hadn't saved it to disc. Now the good news because I totally need it right now. The last time I lost work on a story, I rewrote it and it turned out better than before. So this rewrite now better turn out to be brilliant! So that's conditional good news. Here's the honest to goodness good news. I called up tech as soon as I couldn't figure out how to do anything to make my computer work. The best part about being a night owl and something doesn't work, you get service right away! What's better is that I get a new hard drive shipped out to me no charge! Side benefit, I now know where the hard drive is and how to take it out! Yeah me! Then the other good news that I found out is that my laptop is under warranty for another 37 days! So in essence, it is totally a blessing that my drive broke when it did. As I was on the phone with tech support I realized that my journal I was keeping on my laptop, well that's gone. Okay, so I'm not totally broken up about that. Sucks yes, but not broken up about it. But as I started typing that I totally realized that what I did lose that really is heart breaking is my digital photos! I just lost two years worth of photos! Now that I am upset about!!!!!! Because there were a few dang hot ones of myself that I had that I've never had before I took those. Dang it! Please God, let my friends know how to recover information off of a hard drive! Well maybe not all of those photos are completely lost. I did manage to make one back up copy of my files a few months ago. Oh that was a difficult process to figure out how to do that. Which would explain why I don't back it up more recently. But this event could be incentive to go through the torture.
And so while I'm here, I might as well put in a few words of my dating life to update all this. So the man that I started talking to this last week asked me out to a ballgame. Of course I accepted. One, I'd like to meet him face to face and see how it all works out. Two, really can't go wrong with a ball game. In fact, this will be my first ballgame date. It made me smile when he said he'd get the tickets since he did the asking. I couldn't help it. After my last two dates just being coffee dates.... Anyway, so my response was that in that case if we had fun at the game, that I'd try twisting his arm into going to Phantom with me, and those tickets I would get. But it made me laugh when he wrote back saying he'd love to go with me. I honestly meant it the way that I wrote it, that we'd see how the game went, no response necessary at this point. It was just a fair warning type of thing. But before he wrote his response I was looking up ticket information and wondering how I was going to pull it off--picking the right day. So I wasn't too disappointed when he said he wanted to go. Because it definitely gave me the opportunity to ask him when would be a good time, since I could make all the showings but one. As interesting as it has been getting to know this man, I find it quite fascinating that we haven't even gone on the first date (it won't be for three weeks and I'm wondering if my excitement and anticipation will give me a break at all until then) and yet we already have a second date in the works. Honestly that's the first time something like that has happened for me. I'm not too worries about it either. At the end of the game, I'll still ask him if he still wants to go. Either way I'm going to see Phantom and I'll have a date, because there's no way I'm missing it or sitting on a ticket. But I honestly can't wait to see what will happen when we meet. Because either we are going to have a great time or we're not. From our conversations we've been having it is leaning so way over on the great time side. I'm just really going to have to work on not observing at the beginning of the date though. He did make a comment about how a lot of his dates turn out to be something different when he meets them--they get quiet. And that is the only time that I'm quiet is when I'm observing someone. Otherwise quite is generally not the descriptive word used for me.
During this whole experience of online dating, this time around, I have been reading dating articles as well. I figure I've not exactly done a whole lot of dating in the last ten years, it would be nice to be updated on what's going on. Which I'm glad that I have been doing. Because there are a few things that have changed. Coffee dates are the common first date thing, because it gives one the chance of scoping out without being too committed or putting a lot out there for something that doesn't work out. The second thing I learned is that there is more equality expected for financing a date than it use be. Even if the man is old fashioned etiquette still demands the woman to at least make offers to pay. Although this is the funny thing about that rule. Whoever wrote the article said that if the woman offers and the man doesn't at least object, than he's a jerk. But the same goes for the woman, if she doesn't at least offer than she's a jerk. Quite frankly, I still find the whole thing confusing. My perspective, sure I think it's great for the man to pay. I know I sure like being taken care of. But really, you get to go out and do more things together if we're working with two incomes rather than just one. And quite frankly I have no problem making contributions. Especially if it's something I was planning on going out and doing anyway.
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