It was a nice showing at Legal Lunch yesterday. I was missing my biggest fan and her discussions on the new WOW release. I tried to make others at the table fake some information but it wasn't the same.

So ends the time with Romeos... Maybe the group will travel further out mid town wise since they pick their friends by the locations they can eat out at.

On the plus side I was inspired on the way home for a potential verification that the external drive I was going to be putting together for a friend today was working by booting up the busted laptop on Ubuntu... that lead to a flurry of awesome ideas and I found a 'vista recovery only' disc online and I let rip the six hours of finding and repairing of the bad sectors... this lead to a few more repairs done.. the ability to BOOT to Vista and all I was left was a corrupt profile. Spanktacular! I was able to make the two 'recovery dvds' for this particular HP laptops as well (seriously though? Two hours to make two DVDS? Lame). End game I think this laptop was about nineteen hours of work to get it back to order.

I am unclear where these pictures were supposed to be hiding at so hopefully those weren't missing. I was able to swap profiles, clean up the busted one, and I think I am good to go on this laptop. Now I have no idea why the harddrive was belching out so many errors.. It's probably dying.. but I am unclear.

Off to solder my faceplate for my car..