The year has been a rough start, due to technology not lasting, I'm pretty much having to go out and get new stuff. And last night was another development in terms of having to get new stuff to work with. I was cleaning the house when my little Maltese was wanting to play. He brought out his toy and I had told him to go lay down. He dropped the toy in front of me as I was wiping down the side coffee table that I put my laptop and various external pieces on. I had picked up my external Blu-ray drive and held it in my hand while I used my other hand to wipe the area down. Without looking, I took a step and my foot landed right on his toy.
I lost balance and the only reason that I lost my balance was for the fact that the toy has a squeaker that was what did it. Now, one of two things could have happened; I could have fallen and hit my head as I came crashing down. Or, brace for impact throw the Blu-ray drive out of my hand and have my hand push down on the seat to the chair that I leave beside the door and the coffee table. Needless to say, the last thing is what happened; and the Blu-ray drive went flying into the kitchen. In my horror, I got back up and screamed out the "F" word like thirty times as I went to get the drive. Something broke off inside as I could hear it when I shook it. I plugged it back in and popped in a DVD and loud noise is being made from the drive. As soon as the noise started, I pushed down on the eject button to have the disc come out without any major scratches, to my relief.
My two dogs were not harmed as they were both in the bedroom. But, I am now without an external Blu-ray drive. Which means, on top of shopping for a new desktop to do my video editing and 3D converting; I now have to shop for a new external drive. This time, I am planning on going for an external Blu-ray burner. I feel a Blu-ray burner is now needed as the desktops I am looking at that have a good amount of Ram and HDD space are lacking Blu-ray burners built into them. It seems with each day passing, this Toshiba laptop is seeing it's final days. I do not plan on retiring it completely as I plan on using it to write my screenplays on whenever I am out with family members. I have had both the laptop and the Blu-ray drive for a good three years.
I did not have much time to freak out over the loss of the drive as I was cleaning the house and doing the laundry. I was going to be heading out in a few minutes to get a late dinner and head off to the movies to see the remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The film was ok, but I honestly preferred the original Swedish film. The remake felt more sleazy whereas the original was more tasteful and you really felt the intensity. I didn't honestly feel that at all whenever those types of scenes played out.
Nothing much on the agenda for today; currently converting another film to 3D and hoping that my tax refund makes it in today. One thing I really enjoy about the 3D conversion process is all I have to do is just push a button and sit back and relax for a few hours while it does all the work for me. I might watch a few movies to pass the time. That would be great.
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