Ack!

I'll spare you the self-flagellatory details, but what you need to know is this: I killed my Palm. The good news is I'd backed up most of my memos and hadn't been using the Palm much lately since getting Spiffy (more on that later), but I'm still feeling kind of brain-fried, like the time I lost my notebook in Rome (wah). Anyway, if you want me to have your contact information, birthday, etc., send me email or fill out the following poll (results viewable only by me for your privacy and convenience):

( Ack! Help me recover lost data! )

Besides my address book, the only really critical thing I lost was a bunch of lists, including more or less everything I'd read this year so far (big page counts, woo!) and my big lists of books and movies to read and see, and my lists of good gifts for people, so I made another little poll about that last (this one's publically viewable, for everyone's amusement and edification):

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Finally, I'm going to contact Palm to see if there's any way to recover my data, but in the meantime I'm taking suggestions for turning Spiffy the iBook into yet another data storage point, preferably one I can back up to and from my Palm (hopefully another Palm V, when I'm feeling rich enough). What kind of hardware and software do I need (besides the adaptor that makes it so I can actually connect the Palm to Spiffy)? In particular, I really liked my big bad listkeeper program for the Palm (I think it was called Handy Shopper 2?) so if anybody can point me in the direction of something along those lines for OS X, that would be great. Ok, thanks in advance, kids!

Whee!

( Another too-true web quiz. They're either on or off, these things. )

In other news, big thanks to everybody who's filled out the polls in my previous entry; I love you all! And now, one last question I forgot to ask:

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Ok, time to check the laundry. I drove over to the old apartment in a van we're babysitting for Peter's classmate James, the voices in my head singing the Adam Sandler song "Piece of Shit Car" the whole way (I giggle every time I get to the lines "It sucks royal dick!", "Eats the gas, sucks my ass!" or "Fucking rag for a gas cap!") because it's been looking all rainy and I figured I could take advantage of cheap student housing laundry one last time (the laundromat within walking distance of the new place is pretty reasonably priced, actually, and remarkably walkable, as long as I'm only carrying one bag of laundry).

Palm death update (boring).

I skip one day of LJ, and I get all out of control, I tell you! Although I did write a nice long paper journal entry yesterday, which was fun (and some of it has spilled out here, of course).

( Palm death and tech support suckiness, in much more detail than any of you care to read about but I might need it for future reference )

I should probably check my email to see if I've heard from Palm yet. Sigh.