Pages Turn, Chapters End.™

I wrote the fol­low­ing as my sta­tus on Face­book on Tues­day, August 31^st, at 4:01pm.
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David Zulaica has spent the vast major­ity of today recov­er­ing data. Here’s to hop­ing this doesn’t end up with hav­ing to buy a new exter­nal drive….

Disk Util­ity ended up fail­ing to cre­ate an image, cit­ing an ambigu­ous “resource busy” error. What made that error par­tic­u­larly frus­trat­ing was hav­ing it hap­pen just as it appeared that the process was about to com­plete suc­cess­fully. Per­haps I should have booted from the install DVD before attempt­ing to cre­ate the image with Disk Util­ity. I’m not entirely pos­i­tive that would have made a dif­fer­ence, though, so I’ve since opted to try cre­at­ing an image of the pre­sum­ably faulty drive using Drive Genius. In ret­ro­spect, I imag­ine I should have used Drive Genius from the get-​go.

I sup­pose I’ll find out in approx­i­mately 8 hours and 18 minutes.

I spoke briefly with Bruisey over IM a few days ago. The topic of time per­cep­tion came up, how it changes with age the longer we’re alive. One day seemed like an eter­nity to 5-​year-​old me, given the few num­ber of days I’d existed, whereas 32-​year-​old me finds one day to be a rea­son­ably short amount of time.

32-​year-​old me now fully under­stands and appre­ci­ates why my par­ents would wait until the morn­ing of to let me know we’d be going some­where like Dis­ney­land rather than telling me when they had first planned it.

It was dur­ing my con­ver­sa­tion with Bruisey when I had an epiphany. This is what I said to her and, in many ways, to myself.

Take it from me, [impa­tience] does lit­tle out­side of gen­er­at­ing unnec­es­sary frustration.

Rather than stare at a slowly mov­ing progress bar, I spent the day doing what lit­tle work I could do and then moved on with more unpack­ing and clean­ing. The unfor­tu­nate cir­cum­stance of drive cor­rup­tion did dis­rupt my day, but there was no need to see it as an impasse and remain stag­nant. Besides, I’ll have to con­tinue to deal with this tomor­row morn­ing as Drive Genius still needs more time to com­plete its task. What’s more, there are now even fewer boxes clut­ter­ing up #104. Sto­icism is lit­tle with­out perseverance.

As I like to say, shit hap­pens and then you wipe.