It Lives!

I fixed my hard drive. It was actually much simpler than it should have been. Brent had done most of the disassembly of my old enclosure, so I just needed to unplug a few connectors, plug them into the new enclosure, and tighten 8 screws. My newly reconnected hard drive is up and running. This incarnation has LEDs which light up the entire side of the enclosure when it's on and running. It's almost cheesy sci-fi looking, where anything with way too many lights on it has to be advanced alien technology.

Today, I decided to catch up on TV. Today's show of choice was The 4400, which is another of the serialized dramas where you need the entire backstory to follow new developments. I caught the very end of Season 3 as it ran, but didn't follow much of what was going on. I got the Jesus reference they slam you in the face with, and some of the character backgrounds, but most everything else required explanation and a lot of "well, sure, OK." I watched Season 1 (all 5 episodes today) and have been downloading Season 2 for a while. I had Seasons 1 and 3 on my external hard drive when it died, so I was reluctant to re-download them since I just needed a $20 piece of aluminum to get to them. Weekends are traditionally busier (read: more family time) than during the week, so it may be Monday before I can get back to episodes, and I want to watch each season in as short a time as possible, with my breaks matching the hiatus time. Not length, because there's no way I'm waiting almost a year between seasons.

While I've been waiting for The 4400 to finish, I've been watching Shark. I like the show, so far, but it's nothing I'd go out of my way to see. James Woods plays himself very well, and the first couple of episodes have found a nice groove, but it's not a place a series can survive in for very long. Still, for a few minutes of entertainment, it's not bad.

Shawn Farrell: Me and 4,399 of my closest friends popped out of a ball of light right about here.

More tomorrow.