so, what am i even doing?

i've been carrying out a 500 gb transfer across external drives, on a usb 1.0 connection. it's been running for almost a week, and is almost done.

in the mean time, i've filed almost every file on my laptop, by year, going back to 1995. yes: i have a few files from 1995 and 1996 that are timestamped properly. most files, however, are dated to after august, 1997. there is going to be a process to weed out duplicates.

i've also started organizing email, and this only goes back to 2003. i had emails going back further at one point, but i lost them in a reformat before i went to bc in may of 2003. i vaguely recall backing them up before i left, but i don't think i've seen them in years. i will need to scour, but i do not think i have anything older than when i got back from bc.

that said, one of the things i'll be doing for the alter-reality us trying to track down usenet posts from roughly 1997-2002. my isp dropped usenet around that time, and i never went back to it.

there is also some possibility of finding archived posts at places like the rhml, but i will need to do some work in finding them....

the copy process made calling difficult, because i'm calling out over gmail. now that it's almost done, i could conceivably make some calls today or tomorrow.