She's Alive!!!!! Bringing my iMac back to life
After a few fits and starts…my beautiful iMac G5 is alive. The hard drive is working very well. The saga however….continues.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
I went down to the storage locker in my condo after getting a NEW key. We have had a problem with theft, so they replaced all the locks. I went to look at my locker, and see how big a pair of bolt cutters I would need. You see, when my car was broken into a few months ago, turns out the thief stole a bunch of stuff, including the keys to my storage bin! I had a big ass masterlock on the storage locker.
I opened up the door to the locker room and guess what I saw….a picture of my friends Paul and Jeff on the floor. Hmmmm, that is weird I thought. I look up and all my stuff is out of the locker and thrown in the aisle! The damn thief busted into my locker! 
There was no way for them to map the keys they stole from my car to the locker. I assumed they just cut the lock. NO way…they actually cut through the 1/4in steel plate the lock was bolted into! Unbelievable. I’ll send a picture later. So funny I just had to laugh.
I am not entirely sure what they stole, as nothing there had tons of value. Luckily, they did NOT steal any of my hiking stuff or snowshoes. They busted into a crate of my random computer stuff, with CD’s, etc. I think that was where my iLife and OS X software was…..it was nowhere to be found. I really hope those things turn up.
On he upside, I managed to borrow an OS X CD from a friend (thanks Richard!) hey, I did pay for it after all!!! I got that installed without a problem. Now I must reinstall the dozen apps I had bought to turn my Mac into a lean, mean geeked-out machine.
C.P.R.
Next, I MUST recover the info on my old drive. My last backup was almost a year ago and I have thousands of memories and pics on that drive. I bought DiskWarrior, and ran it before swapping the drive, but it didn’t work. Next step is to buy a standalone carriage for it and try to resusitate it using my newly healed iMac. If this doesn’t work I’ll see if my brother can hook me up with some of his CalTech friends to work their magik on it.
