Woohoo!

It's taken nearly two full days, but my laptop is now almost fully restored to its bonniness. After a reformat and a day+ of reinstalling all the essential programs, I'm almost all done. Portal, which I got for my birthday last week, still will not work on it, but at least I can now send in a help request to Valve, so hopefully that'll get fixed soon. The real woo-hoo-ness comes from the fact that I actually managed to back up things this time, and, in fact, backed up more than I was aware of. To that end, I just discovered a folder stored on my flash drive in which I had backed up a ton of various background pics and whatnot, which so rocks, as I use those for my screensaver. But more than that, I discovered all of my old user icons! Woo! I had thought them lost to the sea of bits and bytes, but nope, they're all there, including a number of ones I had completely forgotten I even had. Yay!

Piccy goodness

I suddenly realize why people actually dish out money or ads for the ability to carry more than six user pics at once. As mentioned before, I just discovered an old file with all of my user icons in them, and we're talking nearly 50 of them. Almost all of them are ones that I've created myself even. Some are just laughable now, but mostly the ones involving tv crushes, and there are surprisingly few of them (though more than I remember, as I didn't really remember *any* of them...). Oh, that I could put all the rest up! But anyway, you can see a few of 'em right here. I'm so excited! I keep forgetting one can actually make new ones, which is amusing, as nearly every one of the 50 were made by me, save maybe five or six. Maybe I should make myself a few more...someday.