When I graduated from DSU, I purchased my Tablet PC for $900 and had been using it as my regular computer ever since then, until January when I took it to Las Vegas.  While staying at Planet Hollywood, the laptop contracted a virus of some sort and had become so infected it barely worked at all.

I e-mailed DSU to see if they would do repairs on it, and sure enough, they were nice enough to take a look.  I sent in my hard drive, they fixed it, and sent it back.  It sure does work like new!  Too new, in fact.  Somewhere along the lines, unfortunately, I missed out on the part where they would be erasing everything from the hard drive!  I had almost four years worth of files on there, not to mention a ton of software, that is gone forever.  Lauren also lost a year’s worth of files.  I had all my photos backed up, otherwise everything is gone.  I don’t think it’s really hit me yet that everything I’ve done the last four years is gone.  I can’t really blame DSU; I should have known to take precaution when sending my hard drive in for repairs.

On the bright side, though, is the fact that I have a computer as good as new aside from a malfunctioning sound card.

We’ve also been hitting up the gym at least four times a week.  We have both received comments that it looks like we’ve lost weight.  I am down to about 259 according to our scale at home, a loss of about six pounds.  I’m running for at least 30 minutes on the elliptical machine, then doing some weights for ten minutes or so.  Not a huge workout, but gradually I’m sure it will increase.

In other news, Lauren and I have a very busy Saturday.  Supposedly between 8 and 10, Comcast will be at our apartment to install cable and internet.  At 11, I need to be 55 miles northwest in Buffalo to take pictures of an event center for a website I’m building.  At 3, Lauren and I have a wedding cake tasting.  And at night, we have tickets to the Darius Rucker concert at Treasure Island in Red Wing!