Hallelujah for Friday!  Princess Nagger’s especially happy since it’s a three-day weekend for her, and next week is her last week  of school.  This year seemed to fly by extra fast – I really need to stop blinking so it can slow down.

I missed Friday Fragments last week because I was down for the count with a dead laptop.  It was dead because I inadvertently killed it.  It took me a little over 48 hours to revive it, but thankfully it’s back in full swing.  I, however, have yet to get back in full swing since I’m still playing catch-up.  So let’s get started, shall we?

Before we get to the entertaining fun, I just want to say that the tornado in Oklahoma was so heartbreaking – the destruction, the loss of lives, completely mind boggling and sad.  If you’d like to help the victims, US News has a a list of many ways to do just that – I’m going to do what I can, and certainly will be keeping them in my thoughts and prayers.

In other news…  I’ve always been a fan of Kellie Pickler – she’s cute, dorky, and even though she didn’t win American Idol the year she was on, she’s done quite well for herself since.  I don’t watch Dancing With The Stars, but a news article caught my eye about the freestyle dance she did in the finals:

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It would be so cool to be able to dance like that!  Here’s a video of the dance so you can be amazed:

Amazing, right?  I was happy to hear she won the whole thing – the cool thing about her is she doesn’t let fame go to her head.

Speaking of humble winners…  One of my favorite country boys won Celebrity Apprentice! I love how humble he always is, and after being runner-up to Piers Morgan 5 years ago, it was nice to see this boy shine:

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And of course he makes awesome music. I’m loving his newest album that was just released last week.

Speaking of favorite country boys… One of my favorite country singers, Jake Owen, had to do a little improvisation at his May 17th show in Charleston, South Carolina while performing Van Halen’s “Jump”.

He was doing air splits (for lack of a better description) when he sang the chorus, and the crotch seam of his jeans gave way – front to back.  Normally this wouldn’t have been a huge issue, but he had decided to go commando that night.  Ahem.

He ended up having to use his t-shirt to create a makeshift cover so he could finish the set:

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Good thing he’s been working hard at keeping himself in shape so he wouldn’t have to be shy about showing off his killer abs.  He later tweeted:  “going commando=bad idea. Although, great breeze here.”  Gotta love his sense of humor and how he took it all in stride. 

Whatever brand of jeans he was wearing probably won’t be relied on for future concerts.  Just sayin’.

Still speaking of favorite country boys… You regulars already know how much I love and admire Brad Paisley – well, he’s gone up a few more notches in my book, because he made a promise to one of his fans he met during a ‘meet and greet’.

A fan was stricken with pancreatic cancer and only had weeks to live – during his meet and greet with Brad Paisley, he gave one of his personal guitars to Brad, telling him if he was going to play it, he wanted him to keep it, and if he wasn’t going to play it, make sure to give it to someone else so it wouldn’t collect dust.

Paisley followed the instruction he was given – toward the end of recording his new album ‘Wheelhouse,’ he plays the guitar leads on ‘Officially Alive’ with that guitar.  As the album ends, it’s one of the last things you hear.

“He told me, he said, ‘I want this to live on,’” Paisley remembers. “So we ended the record with it.”

The terminally ill fan (who passed away last November) and his guitar are living on forever in music history. More proof that Brad Paisley is not only an awesome artist, but truly a stand-up guy.  And easy on the eyes:

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That’s a wrap for this week – don’t forget, if you have fragmented or random thoughts more than once a week, you’re always welcome to join me for Random Tuesday Thoughts each week as well. Have a great weekend!

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For you amazing new followers, in case you missed it, Google Friend Connect is not available for those of us not hosted on Blogger – so we’re stuck with utilizing an alternative with LinkyFollowers – I’d appreciate if you followed me there – or even on Bloglovin’ – because I’m a long way off from the 2000 I had following me on GFC.

I’ve brought back the Friday Free For All I used to have available for you – link up any post you want, and so I can find you should you become a new stalker…I mean follower…of me (no giveaways though, please – because this is not a giveaway linky.):

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I made a button if you’d like to snag it so you don’t forget to stop by to visit each Friday (I’m not above begging, y’know):

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Aliens Turned Feathered Friends

by Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) on May 21, 2013 · 29 comments

in Wednesday Hops,Wordful Wednesday,Wordless Wednesday

Last week you got to see the baby birds fresh out of their hatched eggs, so this week I thought I would delight you with their ‘one week later’ progress. They went from this:

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To this:

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They were a little nervous at first, but seemed to calm down as I kept snapping away until all but one finally nodded off to sleep:

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It must have been his turn to be the lookout.  They look lots cuter as feathered friends than little aliens, don’t they?

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Hello Tuesday!  I rather like Tuesday’s, because they’re not Monday and we’re one step closer to Friday.  I know, my mind works in mysterious ways.  It’s also the perfect day to rack up the Random – so let’s get busy, shall we?

So last week I decided to put a bigger hard drive in my laptop, so I could put my existing hard drive in Princess Nagger’s laptop to thwart her lamenting about the fact that her hard drive was completely full.  Like to the brim full,  making her Minecraft and Roblox games crash and not able to do any updates.  That full.

To make my life easier, I decided to utilize a cloning software to clone my hard drive to the new one, then just swap it out and not miss a beat. 

Or so I thought. 

The cloning software did something funky and effed up the boot file on not only the new hard drive, but my original one.  Oh boy.  What does that mean?  Neither drive would boot to windows.  Nada.  Zilch.  Dead in the water.

Cloning gone bad, like the one clone on one of my favorite shows, Orphan Black – the ‘bad’ clone:

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She looks pretty bad, doesn’t she?  Here, let’s give you some perception – this is the ‘good’ clone (or she’s the original, we have yet to find out who is actually the original of the multitudes of clones):

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She’s a lot more ‘normal’ looking, isn’t she?  So back to the cloning gone bad – I started the whole process Wednesday afternoon – downloading the cloning software, reading all the instructions a zillion times to make sure I didn’t mess it up, then Thursday morning decided it was ‘go time’. 

The cloning itself took just over an hour, so I busied myself with other things – you know, like talking on the phone and purging the piles’o'papers on my desk.  At least something  was accomplished.

Then the moment of truth – removing my original drive and installing the new one – only to boot up to a blank screen with an annoying blinking cursor.  Blink, blink.  Blink, blink.  I shut down my laptop, swapped the drives back to the original, booted up and……… black screen, blinking cursor.  UGH.

I won’t bore you with all the subsequent details, but suffice it to say I was trying every trick in the book to get my laptop to boot up to anything at all (you know, besides in restore mode from the CD).  I lost count how many times I ran the repair software, so I finally did a restore on the new drive (which of course wiped out the clone) and still nothing.  Just blankness and blink, blink….blink, blink.

Since my original drive still wouldn’t boot to save my life, I resigned myself to restoring that one (and wiping out everything on that drive because I was remiss in doing a backup – my last backup was December, and I’ve been a busy girl since then).  Yippee.

And do you know what happened when I restored my hard drive to its original factory settings?  Absolutely nothing.  The boot file was obviously corrupted (and refused to be repaired in repair mode), preventing boot up past the annoying black screen and that ever lovin’ annoying  blinking cursor.  I’m pretty sure my face looked like this:

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And there might have been a few uncharacteristic swear words cross my lips.  There were definitely tears of frustration.

To make a long story even longer short, more than 48 hours later I finally figured out how to fix the boot file, got both drives to boot up, and successfully installed the new drive in my laptop.  Missing all the stuff I had on there since December, of course. *Poof!*  All gone.

I have yet to subject my sanity to the turmoil of backing up Princess Nagger’s drive and swapping that one out with my original one.  Heaven forbid I should mess up her hard drive and lose all her saved game statuses.  Wish me luck.

Of course now I’m swimming upstream trying to catch up on everything after being dead in the water for 2-1/2 days, so please bear with me.  Or is that bare with me?  No, silly – I don’t want you to get naked, so it’s obviously the former vs. the latter.

That’s a wrap for this week – not quite random, but I don’t want to overload you with too much in one fell swoop, so I’ll save the other randomness in my mind for later.  Meanwhile, link up and join in the fun, everyone is welcome, random or not. Be sure to visit your fellow randomizers so they don’t feel so lonely.

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Keeping the random alive – feel free to snag a badge and play along – one for my wino friends:

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And one for my non-wino friends:

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I’m also linking up with two stellar ladies, Shawn and Impulsive, the lovely hosts of Talk To Us Tuesday. There are no rules so link away.

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More Tuesday hops – if you’re stopping by here from there, please do me a favor and follow via LinkyFollowers – since I was robbed of my GFC followers when the cads at Goggle decided to boycott non-Blogger blogs. The Tuesday hops seems to have diminished – if you have one let me know and I’ll add you here, too!

 

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