At least I got some good news

Billy Packer finally decided to stop announcing basketball games. Thank goodness. I never met anyone that liked him, yet he was able to hold the marquee position in college basketball announcing forever. It is one thing for a president to have a low approval rating, he's just the leader of the free world, but announcing the final four. CBS counts on him to bring people to the broadcast to justify their advertising costs. 

Maybe that is why he stayed on so long, whether or not he's a curmudgeon ... I'm still going to watch the Final Four. 

I've been happier in my life

When I woke up to come back to China after Derek's wedding my computer wouldn't turn on. Eventually I realized the problem was my hard drive had died. I was holding out hope that I would be able to get the information on my hard drive back (and I still hold onto that hope) but it seems China, Best Buy, Apple, and the South Korean IT specialist they sent my hard drive to for a month can't help me. 

Essentially I lost everything I've wrote and  taken a picture of in the past year and a half (or my entire experience in China) and my music, which was getting me by. Obviously I can get the music or at least most of it back, and most of the memories I have made here will last without a picture or a journal entry to jog my mind. But I am still pretty upset at myself. 

I should have been backing up my files. 

Hopefully I've learned my lesson.