Random Life Update: Plex Gone

So everything is going pretty smoothly lately as far as life overall goes. It was a slow week at work. Most days I was only getting 5-12 tickets, which is in the unusually slow range. It's been a lot of slamming my head on my desk trying to think of something, or makeup something, to do to keep myself occupied.

David started his new schedule of late nights, so he doesn't get home until around 10PM. It sucks. I'm usually in bed trying to go to sleep when he walks in. I spend more time with him in my ear on the phone, than I do seeing his face in person. I've had to get used to that. One of the many drawbacks of his new schedule is it doesn't leave a whole lot of time to hit up the gym. We made a plan to go on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays—his days off—but we haven't really done a great job at sticking to it. Because last weekend something awful happened: David's computer died.

Okay okay, I'm being dramatic. His computer is fine, but it was our Plex drive that crashed. 8 glorious terabytes no longer showing up on his computer. I thought it was an issue with his computer. We've had this same kind of issue in the past when his motherboard started to fail, so of course that was my first thought. So we went out and bought an iMac.

Not going to lie, there were other, more selfish reasons to get the iMac. Mainly, I've always wanted one. But with the idea of needing a new computer looming, it did make sense to get an Apple. We're heavy into the Apple ecosystem in our house. We both have an iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, Macbook, and an additional iPhone or two. It just made sense for the new computer to be an Apple. Aside from the ecosystem though, I also wanted one because I still can't figure out why his computer, which on paper should be a dream, runs like July septic. Apples just work, so we wanted a reliable machine to host our Plex library on so we won't have to worry about losing data or random issues.

Right now I'm working on transferring the data from one drive to another. It's a lot of data. Plus, I've discovered that it wasn't the computer that was failing us...this time. It was actually the video files David downloaded. For whatever reason he deemed it necessary to have 8.3GB episodes. This broke the drive. So I'm excluding those rather large files from the transfer and moving the bulk of the data. It's going to take a few days though.

In other news I found out that I should be going to North Carolina and California again soon for business. Hopefully not the same trip again. Or hopefully? I still can't make up my mind whether or not the back-to-back trip was a good thing.

Other than that, nothing else to report. Life as normal.