So... today was going pretty well. I felt good, no major upsets. Everything seemed like it was going to be fine.
Then, I scanned a new item and went to place it in my massive artwork folder only to discover something odd... IT'S GONE.
With no trace. I did hard drive searches and keywords and deleted files and whatnot... but no, it's completely gone. I haven't done anything with that folder in over two weeks, so there's no saying for sure when this occurred, or what happened. But somehow, the largest, most important, most organized folder on my computer just... got deleted. Completely.

Now all I have is a back-up CD. Which was made at the end of 2007. Meaning anything after that is GONE. I can resave most of it from here on dA, but anything I didn't submit is gone for good. Like the pictures used to make avatars and stamps. All of the Koopa Club submissions and contest pictures. Even all my CSS codes and pictures. I just spent some time rewriting the CSS main body code. (And in the process, felt inspired and created this new Super Mario Bros 2 pause screen theme! I want to make three more new themes, too.)

But anyway, this means a lot of sudden unexpected work for me to resave this stuff, and plenty of depression over all the things permanently lost. I put a LOT of work into that folder. I always hate losing things like this, it's like a big slap to the face.

So, regardless of a planned update to my gallery this week, I'll need a little more time. This is very frustrating.