Malaika's Birthday Party and Computer Woes

This picture was taken by Neil (father), sent to me by Stacey (mother) from Malaika's birthday party yesterday at the gym. Good to see so many familiar faces.

Lots of fun. I'll write about it in detail, if I get around to making a video. Weird to have a birthday party at the gym on a weekday.

Disappointing for me last night to have lost the greater bulk of videoclips I've taken from 2008, all on one of my external hard drives that somehow became corrupted after trying to reconfigure my windows media player to import music from the hard drive (I recently had my computer "fixed"). Lost some really good stuff, waiting to be made into videos. Entire files were either corrupted or the contents simply vanished. This includes some of my music videos, some of which I do not have copies; so the only existing evidence are the lower resolution videos on the internet.

I recovered a few from the recycle bin, as I was trying to burn some vids for Thea, and disgarded "temporary files" a few times, when they wouldn't all fit on one disc. Thankfully, this includes salvaging copies of Julia's videos and at least one of Erin's.

Modem also broke down last week, so I've not really had a lot of access to the internet. *sigh*