I totally feel like I’m going through withdrawl… I set my laptop (a MacBook Pro) on my chair and it managed to slip off fall a few inches and hit the (metal) leg of my desk. The result was a bit catastrophic – the hard drive got fucked up. I took it out, tried to pull files off it, but since it was only half working that was a painful process. I got what I could (it was amazing how little I needed off it since so much is on servers these days). After erasing it I put it back in my laptop only to discover that my DVD drive wouldn’t read the install DVD. So I went down to TekServe but they refused to honor my AppleCare warranty citing a few dents in the laptop that happened like a year ago (aluminum is a soft metal). They also refused to sell me the part I needed – they’d only do the part installed for $300. So, I went home and bought the part off eBay for $120 (with next day shipping), and the next day got that installed. But then I realized the hard drive was really fucked and was completely dead.

SO, since I was going to need a new laptop this year anyway, we just went ahead and ordered a new MacBook Pro. When that comes in I’ll pull the data off a previous hard drive for the old laptop that I was using as a backup drive, put the previous hard drive in it, and sell it on eBay to defray the cost of the new laptop.

In the meantime I’m totally going through withdrawl. Yesterday I felt depressed, lethargic and a bit beat up by the whole experience. It’s amazing how dependent I am on not just having a computer (my bf and I have 6 between us plus 2 servers at a data center plus one we’re about to throw out), but I’ve become completely dependent on my laptop… For the next week or so I have to make due with an iMac we have – but I can’t curl up on the couch with it. And the new MacBooks aren’t as couch friendly either (my bf has one) – the screens are heavier since they’ve got glass in them an they tend to fall down when you’re laying on your back… But it will be nice to have a faster machine.

The other thing that happened this week was we got rid of the guy who was working for us. He was doing image tagging/rating for the porn blog as well as cleaning and generally helping out. Thing was, he just wasn’t that good… He’d literally mop himself into a corner and then complain ’cause his socks were getting wet. When we had him doing some painting around the apartment it was a disaster – paint got EVERYWHERE. And the straw that broke the camel’s back was that he filed a check. Who would file a check? Checks need to be deposited.

So we put out two ads – one for a personal assistant and one to help with the porn blog. The upside of a down economy is that there are so many quality people out there to to chose from. We had this one guy tell us about his mother who was looking for work – she used to be the personal assistant for a big name fashion designer, she had lost her job and was about to go into forclosure on her house. Really sad. There are people who have had had really good jobs but are now willing to work with porn for $10/hour… We’ve picked the personal assistant, and I’ll pick the one to help me with porn later today. But so many people are unemployed or underemployed.

I know, I know… I need to get back to fucking… All last year I was wondering when my dry period was going to come and it never really came. Well, it’s here now, at least I’m fucking someone every week or two… I’ve gone 3 months without sex before…