From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   The past few days I've been mostly "offline" due to an interesting situation:    
   I turned my laptop OFF Thursday night, thinking I'd "give it a rest," then   
   when I tried to boot on Friday, I had a minor moment of fright as the system   
   wouldn't fully boot.     
   It kept on trying to Start Windows and then before the desktop came up, it   
   would cyclically reboot back to the start.   
      
   As luck would have it, the hard drive at that time had the original Dell   
   Diagnostics laid down in a special partition (perhaps they're in a motherboard   
   chip?) which allowed me to use the special bios boot key (F2 or F12) when then   
   allowed me to run diags    
   which popped up a "DST-0146" error.  I can recall numerous times telling   
   people over the phone they had an option:  a) send their drive out to a data   
   recovery specialist and THEN get a replacement hard drive, or b) just get a   
   replacement hard drive.   
      
   Countless are the folks who "lost" all their personal (and often professional)   
   data simply because they had not backed up their files to a different source.    
   I myself had a fairly decent backup from around May 9th, although the "full"   
   backup was from    
   around March.   
      
   I figured I had a "little" bit of wiggle room / time to play around, so I   
   tried a "Hail Mary" procedure of "reloading" the Windows OS (operating system)   
   over the existing one *without* wiping out the full, existing data on the   
   drive (the Windows OS    
   installation gives you an option, to wipe and reload, or simply just reload,   
   often considered a "dirty" way of restoring the OS.)   
      
   I figured, what the heck?  I just want to see if I can recover my full data,   
   so why not?   
      
   Sure enough, the "dirty install" worked!  I was able to come back up to full   
   desktop condition and from *there* fully backup my data files (AND software   
   library) to an external drive (an older IDE hard drive that allowed me to copy   
   from THERE to a backup-   
   PC, basically giving me TWO "full dumps" as backup.)   
      
   As luck would have it, there was another SATA hard drive (HDD) that was being   
   used intermittently with the IDE as one of my backup drives.  Upon comparing   
   the SATA drive with my existing (DST-0146 failing) drive, it turns out the   
   bkup SATA drive is    
   actually larger in capacity (250 GB compared to the failing 150 GB) (all   
   numbers here are approximations) and has a faster spin speed of around 7200   
   RPM compared with the older 5100 RPM.  If you think of those in terms of MPH   
   on a car, you get an idea of    
   the difference between 51 MPH and 72 MPH, or in jet speeds, between mach 1 and   
   mach 2.   
      
   So I spent all day Friday doing data backups and transfers, then late Friday   
   night began the OS reinstall and subsequent restoration of backed-up data to   
   the laptop.   
      
   Saturday was spent putting things back in place, and Sunday was spent   
   "tweaking" bits here and there (so my shortcuts were all where I wanted them,   
   etc.)   
      
   Now here I am, posting in the dream blog on Monday, however, I must say, it's   
   NICE to be able to simply type IN the blog's html rather than having to   
   compose offline and upload it.  However, I do appreciate having learned the   
   trick of composing offline    
   and xfering the post into the html, and I still use that in areas of "critical   
   thinking."   
      
   So LAST night / this morning, I've been doing a LOT of meditation upon John   
   7:24, "Judge not according to appearances but the righteous judgment judge."    
   (Logically speaking, that reduces to 1 ∩ 0, "1 intersect 0," or "Love   
   intersect nothing.")  At any    
   rate, besides all that this brings to mind, I had a 2-word "phrase" that   
   passed through my mind almost as if it were a "line of darkness" shot like an   
   arrow from right to left.  It stated "Fiery things" (although the spelling of   
   "Fire-y" may not have    
   been too clear, the *meaning* was!) and I'm expecting all KINDS of chaos to   
   start erupting more and more around the Middle East and possibly the West and   
   East Coasts of America (excluding Florida.)  At any rate, I'm still keeping my   
   eyes peeled toward    
   July 2024 to see what that data "reveals."   
      
   Meanwhile, for those who care to study the "Logic of Jesus," please feel free   
   to visit tinyurl.com/IntroToTheAdvocate for more "stuff."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)