Wednesday, July 27, 2005

found then lost?

I forgot to tell a really funny story.. well it starts a little weird.

To be short my mother's car was stolen.. but let's start at the beginning.
My sister, who is a teenager, went home at about 4:00 am on a borrowed bike without light. As she rode a police car followed her, about 2 Minutes before she got home. Of course she started to ride faster and went home as quick as possible..

The door just closed when the police ring on that door and when she opened the door they wanted to talk to our mother. I think she that was the most afraid time of her life ;-)

She woke my mother up to get informed they found her car about 300 km away. At first they thought the police must be joking.. but the car was not were it should be.. the next thing was to check if i borrowed it without telling anyone... as unlikely as it sounds...

Since she woke me up at home, which is about 50km away, (in the other direction) they know it must have been stolen. So she had to go to a police station to report her car as missing, since the police found it ;-)

For those who want to know how exactly it could be that the police asked my mother in the first place: My mothers car was just aside to an other car which some people tried to steal. Somehow they must have been scared away... my mother did not know the status of her car becouse they did not know it until morning.

Monday, July 18, 2005

Bad weekend

As murphy's law says: if something bad happen, it will probably be just the beginning of getting much worse.

This weekend we planed to go camping with a group of roleplaying friends. The Idea was to play the whole weekend in the nature to get a better feeling for the game and of course we did not want to get disturbed by anything or anyone. A friend of mine who organised everything, first talked about 20 People or so which should come. On Firday he told me that we should be at least 12 People... in the end it was just our group of 5 plus one.

The small size of the group was a problem since the story my friend prepared for the weekend needed at least 10 People.
And nature itself did not like us, since we had more rain than anything...

So we stopped the whole thing at Saturday evening and drove home, where we all enjoyed a good hot shower and played another story at my place... since we still wanted to do some roleplaying...
But we all were really tired from the whole day and it did not went really good, so we ended the game early.

On Sunday i woke up and my girlfriends told me: The computer crashed and now nothing works anymore... shi* ... ok, i looked over it ... harddisk will not boot... even the bios has problems with it... i downloaded a service tool from the harddisk manufacturer.. (it is a quantum fireball so i used maxtors powermax).. and after booting from a disk and entering: Quick Check it immediately showed a Number and told me to contact support... Yipeee... i hate sundays....

Of course i had some serios work on that disk and my girlfriend kills me if i am unable to get her data of the disk... did i mention i hate sundays?...

All i could do is find a company which is able to retrieve the data of the disk and pay possilbe a horrific prize for it... i hope they are able to get the data or i am in serious trouble!

For what its worth, i think i will install a raid system on my computer...