It's a new year. Time to start fresh with a clean slate. So I spent a good chunk of time yesterday restoring my laptop. Mostly I needed to fix this nagging problem with the DVD+RW/CD-R drive which wouldn't recognize discs unless I put it in, ejected it and then put the disc back in again. Oh, and then there was that issue of not being able to burn discs. At all. So I shifted all my files to my external hard drive (what a godsend) and re-formatted and re-installed everything. I took a long time, but it's very satisfying to have the stupid piece of computing shit in working order again.