Last night I finally got all the pieces I needed to throw a super-duper, 320GB hard drive in my computer. Along with a new scanner I recently acquired, I'm finally set to begin phase two of my website which was hampered by the fact my previous hard drive had mere kilobytes of open space. It took some nerdy work to find internal SATA cables with our local CompUSA going out of business but I lucked out at, of all places, Radio Shack (where the sales associates toe the line between crazed loner and reality-starved Dungeonmaster).

But that's the boring stuff--what's neat is I'll finally get to go through the box of epic pictures which basically tell the story of my life from 1997-2003 (when I finally went digital). The lion's share of memories are from highpoints trips and outdoors outings, but occasionally there are other moments: my departure party for Colorado, shots from Maine, old friends. There's even a few really old shots in my collection: baby Bruplex, a shiny new SNES, Eric Peterson playing Chrono Trigger at Marist.

Because I'm in archivist mode, I'm not getting terribly nostalgic beyond the normal "wow, that was 10 years ago" sensation. To modify the famous Geddy Lee quote, "Ten years is ten years".

Though admittedly, I get a little teary eyed remember my very first 8 MB (!)hard drive in my old Pack Bell compy I got for high school graduation in 1994. When Iw as a kid, we had one digital picture of a cheetah and we were happy, consarnit!

Posted by James Dziezynski @ 8:52 AM