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So! Where have I been the past couple of days?

On Tuesday early afternoon, I went out to pick up my new LaCie 500GB EHD. I made a special trip to the city just for this. And boy, I was so mad when the sales guy told me that the goods wasn’t there yet. I mean, they should have rang to let me know; they got my number! What a waste of my time! And I was so looking forward to it because I couldn’t do much work without the much needed extra space. I did tell them that when I placed the order last week. Hmmph! I couldn’t help but to let out a frustration groan which resulted in people turning their heads towards me with a surprise look… Oh welllll… So anyway, the sales guy promised to deliver it to me as soon as they got it. Which at that point they still didn’t know exactly when. Great. So I went back home straight away, fuming all the way on the ferry and on the bus. I rang them later on and they told me that they managed to get a hold of one LaCie 500GB EHD and will deliver it to me the following day – in the afternoon. Pheeew! I must say that I felt relieved that I didn’t have to wait for days!

So… Wednesday. I spent the morning and early afternoon in my studio upstairs working on a non-digital project (more on this later). The new Playdock from TEO accompanied me as I heartily sang along to Sinéad O’Connor, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos and Nina Simone. At around 3:15 pm I quit the studio and rang the sales guy to make sure that the delivery was happening. He assured me that their driver was on his way to my address. It should take about 1 hours to get here. So I waited. And waited. And waited… Almost 2 hours have passed with no updates from them. So I rang the store again. Finally they told me that the driver was boarding the ferry right then so he should reach me a little before 6. And so he did. I was so relieved and excited to finally got my EHD!

I unpacked it straight away and set it up beside my old Maxtor (AKA Maxsparkz). It took me a while to get it all to work because the cables that came with the LaCie were all very short because it was designed to be used with a Mac Mini stacked on top of the EHD while I’m using it with my MacBook Pro. Fortunately, the cables from the Maxtor are long enough. After some considerations, I decided to use USB with the Maxtor and FireWire with the LaCie – since FireWire is faster and the LaCie has twice as much space than the Maxtor. Organizing the crisscrossing cables underneath my desk was quite sweat-inducing but I was very pleased when it’s finally done. I hate clutters (not that I lack any! LOL!).

Now the *real* organizing agony begun! I have so many files in both my EmB and Maxsparkz EHD. I’ve been using Maxsparkz as extended HD for EmB for quite a while now. A lot of the files in the Maxsparkz got no backups. Scary thought, huh! So I was anxious to back things up a.s.a.p. As things in life are changing and developing, the way I organize my files should be adjusted and kept compatible if I am to have an organized space – which I really want and need.

LaTjie & Maxsparkz – side by side on the Racken trolley besides my desk (in case you’re wondering, the trolley is actually for bathroom use but I found it to be perfect as a desk-companion!

The innards under the desk – I try to keep them off the ground. Don’t you wish everything is wireless!

My (messy) work space @ a glance. The EHDs are hidden, you could glimpse them a bit on the lower left there. The desk extension on the right is actually a shelf. You can see my CraftyCalendar sits there! Of course, trolley + desk + shelf are all from IKEA! Oh and it’s my scanner there perched on top of an IKEA chest of drawers. Can you spot more IKEA stuff in this picture?

But then it’s dinner time! TEO has cooked us some deep fried fish served with some ‘sambel’ (hot chili sauce), bread and salad. Yummy! But I was anxious to get back to my desk to continue with re-organizing my filing system. So after dinner I started copying things from Maxsparkz to LaTjie (Latjie is laci in the old, dutch-influenced Indonesian spelling system). It took quite a long time because there are just sooo… many files! I washed the dishes while waiting.

Guess what! I ended up staying all night long re-organizing and backing up files between EmB, Maxsparkz and LaTjie. When this was done, I installed my Adobe CS3. There were some problems during the installation so I had to reinstall which took hours and hours… But! I’m so happy that at least my virtual desktop and space are now tidy :). I’m so ready to get back to work… I will need to customise my work space and preferences at Photoshop, Bridge etc. From what I’ve glimpsed so far, it all looks promising! For one thing, Photoshop does start up and close down much faster than previous version. Can’t wait to *really* try them all out! But it’s lunch time soon…