{"id":370,"date":"2008-07-01T20:04:47","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2014-01-19T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:11:33","slug":"defeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/defeated\/","title":{"rendered":"Defeated~!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I once took great pride in the fact that, although the animation is taking <em>forever~<\/em> I&#8217;d never missed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swordmasterodyssey.com\">Swordmaster Odyssey<\/a> update. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The simple upgrade that I mentioned a couple posts or so back should have taken only an afternoon or so. Yet, in the end, it wasted a week of my life, cost me over $200 more than it should have, and took the life of an innocent hard drive. Bah&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I backed up the important stuff (namely all the stuff for the company), but at the very moment that I realized the little diodes on the bottom of the drive had snapped off, images flashed through my mind of all the stuff I had somehow managed to forget! Unless I want to pay for a hard drive recovery&#8211;or go through the trouble of hunting down the exact same make\/model\/date hard drive and swap out the chip boards&#8211;it&#8217;s likely gone forever, along with a bunch of other stuff that got lost in the transition. Alas! What a fate to befall me!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s worse is that with all that time I spent getting stuff together, there was no way for me to do last week&#8217;s page, let alone upload it. Hopefully, I&#8217;ll be able to pull together this week&#8217;s. I make no promises. (The irony here is that I said that last week&#8217;s update would be up without a doubt, while I didn&#8217;t see myself doing a Sketchbook Monday. Guess which one made it and which one didn&#8217;t!) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for not letting everyone know sooner&#8211;it&#8217;s been a stressful couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once took great pride in the fact that, although the animation is taking forever~ I&#8217;d never missed a Swordmaster Odyssey update. Sigh&#8230; The simple upgrade that I mentioned a couple posts or so back should have taken only an afternoon or so. Yet, in the end, it wasted a week of my life, cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visionriders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}