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Podionaut Marriage, death and birth (in that order)
Post posted by Sacha on August 29th, 2009 at 20:41
Woohoo, I’m back! I have been silent on the internet this past month. The offline world has been absorbing all my attention, there wasn’t anything left for my internet life. I haven’t even been listening to books! And here is why:
Marriage. My little brother married on 07-08-’09: August 7th 2009 (in Holland, we use the normal date notation: dd-mm-yyyy). He and his lovely wife met on 01-02-’03 and they got engaged on 04-05-’06. There was no other day they could have gotten married than on 07-08-’09. I sure hope they’re not planning a divorce on 10-11-’12 but they must do something special on that day, because it will be the last of these special days.
Aaaaanyway! The marriage was awesome, we went all the way to Belgium to celebrate. The day was just perfect in all the ways it could have been: great weather, a wonderful group of people, a lot of fun and two awesome and beautiful newlyweds. And we were not the only people to be impressed by the cute couple: everywhere we went, people stopped and applauded to the couple, which made them shine even more bright than before.
A few days later, death. First, let me tell you about Elementary: that’s the huge external hard drive my boyfriend had given me on my birthday last Christmas. And by ‘huge’ I mean really HUGE: 1TB. That is 1 TERAbyte of hard drive, or 1,000GB (gigabytes) or 1.000.000.000.000 bytes. Today, that’s a LOT. I don’t know what I will think of that in the future, but today it’s a lot of space to fill. And so I did: I filled my hard drive with all the audiobooks I had and it was nearing 300GB last month.
We had some great times. I filled the drive with my books and the drive gave me many books to listen to when I was in need of listening pleasure (which was often). I had about 60 special audiobooks that were my ‘bed books‘: books I prepared so I could listen to them in bed. That means I had removed the music and author’s comments at the beginning and the end of the files, and I cut the chapters into shorter files, so I could jump back easier through the book. I even removed the loud noises that could wake me up again if I had fallen asleep while listening. It had been a lot of work, let me tell ya. And I loved to listen to those books in bed.
Do I need to explain what happened next? I still don’t know why or what, but my drive just died. 300GB of audiobooks gone. I was sad. I was most sad about losing the work I had been doing: my bed books. My favorite bed book, The Corridor by Zan, contains over 22 hours of listening pleasure and I will have to do it all over again. Makes me sad.
On a more positive note: I had been backing up all my pictures and other data on DVD’s, so I didn’t lose any important stuff. I have been downloading my audiobooks since The Day Of The HUGE Loss and I must admit, it’s a nice way to clean up your hard drive.
On an even more positive note: my sister is pregnant again! That’s the birth, although the birth part won’t be happening until later this year. But I’m going to have another niece/nephew and I’m extremely thrilled about it! And while I’m on the subject of births and new lives, I am starting a new path in my working life. As of this week, I’m an assistant teacher at a school for adults. I love the work, it’s so different from the computer programming I used to do. Really, it’s like night and day, totally different and very awesome.
So, there you have it. A few major events in the life of a little lady. A little bit of sadness, some changes and a lot of happiness.
