It actually managed to snow here this week, and we lost power for a brief period a few nights ago. Once power was restored, I discovered that the sudden outage had somehow damaged my Windows XP installation on my computer.

Luckily everything important to me is stored on other paritions or physical drives from my OS, so I was able to reformat the partition and reinstall Windows without really losing anything besides some things I had downloaded and left on my desktop (all of which can be reobtained). I'm still in the process of reinstalling, but I've got the Sims 2, SimPE, Milkshape, and Photoshop reinstalled.

I have discovered, though, that I did in fact lose one thing that I miss: I was working on a living room set to upload here that I was keeping in a folder on my desktop. Unfortunately it's now quite gone. It's just as well, I suppose. I really hated how it was turning out. Maybe a fresh start would be better, or another project altogether. I still have a LOT to learn about meshing, UV mapping, and texturing before I can upload something of that cailiber here, anyway.