Gah! Argh! Crap! Good Grief!
It all runs through my head and makes my want to scream at all the little wires coming out of my head. Surely in this modern age of reason, enlightenment and more importantly interstellar, faster-than-light space travel, we could avoid something small like a software glitch. Right? Wrong.

As is more often than not the case, when something goes wrong, it goes Completely, Utterly Wrong™. This happened when I was working on my lists and calculations for mining, research, manufacture and what-not. I was merrily bouncing back and forth from my research data to the calculations and all of a sudden. Poof. The calculations were gone. Gone as in no apparent trace of them being open. Logs weren’t helpful as it merely said, “Something has gone wrong,” and no other details.

So, I started over from semi scratch. I had a backup from 3-4 months ago and some data from Letrange to begin building with. I’m no so terribly upset about losing the spreadsheet as it can be rebuilt. I am terribly upset, however with myself for not having a more current backup of it and for losing all the BPO information I had just hand keyed. I’m sure there is a way to automate the process and just have to note the current ML/PL on a given BPO and have it spit out the mineral list and costs, but I’m just not up for that. Hopefully I’ll get something sorted out in the next couple of days and be back at work.

In the interim, I’ve been running some missions for my R&D stand-bys, Lai Dai. They’ve been good to me and I try to repay the favor when ever I can. Note: I’m not all that fond of running missions, but they help generate a little side income, some LP for the store and increase standings.

[EDIT: This didn't get posted when it was written on 13/1/2009 for some reason. Apologies to those who might have been wondering what happened to me in the interim.]