Before I wipe clean the hard drive that I had used for about 7 months in 2017, I'm going to check the blog posts that I made during that time.
I have followed a few procedures that I found online, only to be frustrated; and then began to download a "boot-repair" program which was just about guaranteed to solve any and all problems only to find that my problem was so severe that I couldn't download the darned thing -a boolean catch 22.
I want to refresh my memory of what I was doing on the thing, but especially, how much of it I was posting up to the blog.
The blog has been kind of like a cloud to me (I've been in a fog while writing it, also).
Artwork that I might be losing off the drive may have been copied onto this blog.
Anything that I thought wasn't good enough post, I shouldn't worry too much about deleting.
There was one story in particular I wrote when I first tried kratom that I thought came out pretty good and had the potential to become a novel length story once a story leading up to it and an epilogue to it were written. But, I feel that it is reproduce-able and can probably even be written better, so no great loss.
Back From Looking Through Blog
Yes, I have read my blog posts and it seems that, once I got the Thinkpad in February, I spent about a month messing with things like the OpenShot video editor, making videos at home that are totally erase-able.
Then there was the gap in my productivity when Travis Blain stayed with me for 19 days and nothing got recorded.
He was there almost the whole time I was, talking non-stop about himself, and ready to cringe and talk over any music I started to play.
He had figured that if he never left the apartment, then the staff at Sacred Heart would never count him coming and going, and he would be able to stay indefinitely. All this without consulting the owner of the apartment, by the way.
But, nothing got recorded that whole time
There was then a lot of experimenting with the GIMP graphical image manipulating program, upon which I did some cool stuff, but which cool stuff was uploaded to the blog.
Some of the music would have started to sound better and more organized soon after I discovered kratom, which I believe to be in May of that month, and it would have been nice to have a way to document that, but.
I'm reading The Power Of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, and it almost seems like I need to wipe clean all evidence of those 7 months and move forward.
My quickest path to having a working laptop is to do a complete new install of Unbuntu and go from there.
Help Comes To Halt
The temporary "trial" operating system is telling me that the disk is encrypted.
I haven't been able to guess the password, even though I use basically the same password for everything; modifying it in cases where, say, it must contain at least one symbol, or if both upper and lower cases must be represented, etc. I have modifications for all contingencies. If it needs to be at least 16 characters, then I wrap around to the beginning and start repeating.
But, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. If I would have gotten past the encrypto-screen then I might have had a fighting chance of fixing the problem with the boot up.
And, it seems that the folks who were so helpful through the AskUbuntu forum in giving me advice about the first problem of having deleted the kernel, have suddenly become mum after I asked the encryption based question.
"Gee, does anyone know how to crack into a system that I um, forgot the password to? I swear it's not a stolen laptop that I'm trying to unlock for myself..." type of thing.
Yeah, not too much advice about how to brute force one's way into an encrypted Linux hard drive, from the linux gurus; go figure...
I want to refresh my memory of what I was doing on the thing, but especially, how much of it I was posting up to the blog.
The blog has been kind of like a cloud to me (I've been in a fog while writing it, also).
Artwork that I might be losing off the drive may have been copied onto this blog.
Anything that I thought wasn't good enough post, I shouldn't worry too much about deleting.
There was one story in particular I wrote when I first tried kratom that I thought came out pretty good and had the potential to become a novel length story once a story leading up to it and an epilogue to it were written. But, I feel that it is reproduce-able and can probably even be written better, so no great loss.
Back From Looking Through Blog
Yes, I have read my blog posts and it seems that, once I got the Thinkpad in February, I spent about a month messing with things like the OpenShot video editor, making videos at home that are totally erase-able.
Then there was the gap in my productivity when Travis Blain stayed with me for 19 days and nothing got recorded.
He was there almost the whole time I was, talking non-stop about himself, and ready to cringe and talk over any music I started to play.
He had figured that if he never left the apartment, then the staff at Sacred Heart would never count him coming and going, and he would be able to stay indefinitely. All this without consulting the owner of the apartment, by the way.
But, nothing got recorded that whole time
There was then a lot of experimenting with the GIMP graphical image manipulating program, upon which I did some cool stuff, but which cool stuff was uploaded to the blog.
Some of the music would have started to sound better and more organized soon after I discovered kratom, which I believe to be in May of that month, and it would have been nice to have a way to document that, but.
I'm reading The Power Of Now, by Eckhart Tolle, and it almost seems like I need to wipe clean all evidence of those 7 months and move forward.
My quickest path to having a working laptop is to do a complete new install of Unbuntu and go from there.
Help Comes To Halt
The temporary "trial" operating system is telling me that the disk is encrypted.
I haven't been able to guess the password, even though I use basically the same password for everything; modifying it in cases where, say, it must contain at least one symbol, or if both upper and lower cases must be represented, etc. I have modifications for all contingencies. If it needs to be at least 16 characters, then I wrap around to the beginning and start repeating.
But, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. If I would have gotten past the encrypto-screen then I might have had a fighting chance of fixing the problem with the boot up.
And, it seems that the folks who were so helpful through the AskUbuntu forum in giving me advice about the first problem of having deleted the kernel, have suddenly become mum after I asked the encryption based question.
"Gee, does anyone know how to crack into a system that I um, forgot the password to? I swear it's not a stolen laptop that I'm trying to unlock for myself..." type of thing.
Yeah, not too much advice about how to brute force one's way into an encrypted Linux hard drive, from the linux gurus; go figure...
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