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A few days ago, Eelai was talking about how she accompanied her friend to get insurance money, and how hard it was to get the insurance money of the friend’s policeman husband who died in the line of duty. This life insurance was from an insurance company that served the police force specifically, and all the policemen were secured. Getting it was such a pain in the behind. The man died already, the wife already begrieved and they were still being given problems.

I told her that one of the student teachers when I was in my practicum told me to invest in life insurance and I scoffed at it and said that it was a waste of money. Eelai said that it WAS a good investment, but it depends on the insurance. The one she had was a dual purpose or something. She can get it when she reaches a certain age, 65 I think, or her remaining family can get it when she’s gone. I don’t know the specific terms but it certainly is about insurance. She said, however, that she wouldn’t bother taking it out if she does reach that certain age because it might not cost much when the time comes. The terms were P12000 a month, and she got that insurance thing 5 years ago.

Five years ago P12K was about US$220. Now it’s about US$285. Thinking of inflation, 12K really wouldn’t be much. Another way of thinking about it is 2 years ago, the Zen MicroPhoto was 12K. It was big, bulky and heavy and colored. Now, the Zen V Plus is small, light, sleek, and plays videos.

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Apparently, my Maxtor drive died. I’m still looking into ways to fix it, but at the moment, I’m declaring it dead. Along with my X drive.

I just bought X recently, about 2 weeks ago. It’s a 320Gb Seagate drive (PATA) and I planned to dedicate it to music. It’s an internal HDD inside an external case. So far it had about 200+ Gb of music already.

I’m going to write about what happened in case someone else has a better idea.

I mentioned that I’m also taking proofreading and editing a paper for someone. But I was too lazy to sit on my behind and I decided to do it on my laptop like I did with the first draft. I saved the draft on X because I set it as download default since that was what I’ve been downloading lately–catching up on music I missed for the past few months. And X was on share.

So I was trying to access the draft over WAN and it said the drive was inaccessible. I’ve been getting I/O Device errors before so I thought that that might be affecting it, so I moved my lazy behind to the desktop and checked what was happening. I tried accessing X and it kept saying that it was inaccessible. There was another error but I forgot what it was.

I figured that maybe a reboot would help, so I rebooted.

After the reboot… It said it was empty.

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