Vent away, chief. Venting is good.

'k MOVING ON

So Thing1 is that a nasty obnoxious thing humans do is they fuck with the people they care about. So like when you've had a tumultuous relationship with someone but you've both moved on but neither of you has completely moved on but you sort of suspect that maybe that other person has moved on more than you and that makes you feel bad because they're winning the moving on game and you're losing and the only way to make yourself feel better is to flirt with them and act like maybe you don't want to move on to see if they crumble and act like they don't want to move on and see they haven't moved on as much as you moved on so now you can get back to texting Jeremy with your integrity intact.

Misogynists will suggest that this is something girls do, which is bullshit. Girls will just cop to it. My best friend for pushing 30 years torments the fuck out of his exes this way, and it's usually when his most current ex has given him the boot. That's right. He jerks the chain of the chick two chicks back because the last chick is jerking his.

And he's a grown fucking man. Owns a half-million-dollar condo and shit. Teenaged humans are even worse. So don't succumb. Whatever feelings you may have for this chick are putting you at a serious disadvantage. GO TAP SOMETHING ELSE. If nothing else, it increases your stock value and market positioning. Best advice? Hang out somewhere public with a hot chick that isn't into you and that you aren't into. Nothing brings out the beauties like a safety girl.

Thing 2 is that sinking feeling? That you get? When your data? Like, goes away? And you can't get it back? And you try and you try? But it just gives you the finger?

The minute you restore your data from a decent backup that feeling is YOUR BITCH forever.

Probably too late now. HD Recovery is stupid expensive and very few things work (although my dad did manage to get a couple hundred MB off a nuked platter using the freezer trick). But for next time (and there will be a next time), BAKDAFUKUP. I've already managed to restore 140GB worth of iTunes files, beyotch.

(Can you afford to spend $1900 on backup drives? No. Of course not. Do you need 24TB of RAID 6? Also of course not. But all your mission-critical shit oughtta be in the cloud anyway and any schmo can afford Dropbox)

TL;DR fuck Glee watch your ass some Madoka Magika