Ramsey's had his ups and downs over the years. In 2006, he got a virus, and in order to rehabilitate, he had to be wiped. I put it off for some time, even though he was non-functional, because I hated to hit the "kill button" that would wipe it all. My scripts, college notes, foolish pictures... I was already on my way out, and I felt like I was cutting the thread between my college years and an unknown future. Eventually though, it happened. I re-installed, re-customized, and got back together with him.
I recently bumped the keyboard and inadvertently saved a video somewhere with a nonsense file name. I've been trying to find the darn thing, and yesterday I had time to kill, so I just ran a system wide search for videos, since I shouldn't have that many. What turned up were the usual Rowen baby vids, the missing video, and a set of Firefly episodes streamed to me before Ramsey'd been wiped. WTF? I looked up the location, retraced it, and found... everything. It was hidden in a sub file in a weird place that I hadn't ever even bothered to look through. All my old Frothy Monkey pics, my Shakespeare paper, theater projects, Lilly's photo shoot from like 2004... Plus a bunch of stuff was in there that I'd re-uploaded after the wipe. No wonder Ramsey's memory is so small. No wonder the poor guy's been a bit arthritic. So I've spent the whole afternoon reminising, cleaning out, uninstalling, and defragging. I want pationately to end this amazing evening with a trip to Sundown. After so many memories, I feel the only thing that can really do the day justice is a Newcastle on the patio. And if I had more gas in the tank I'd be this close to driving down tonight and then driving back. Barring that, I'm drinking the last Guiness from the fridge, smiling, listening to an old Brandt Cooley track, and clicking through what I've found...