Well many people may have been wondering where I am or what happened to daily blog posts.

a number of things made this difficult. First, I have to live a life to have anything worth talking about. At first I was so caught up with classes that’s all I could reallay is “Here are some pictures, today I studied for five hours, good night.”

 

然后我began taking super awesome photos, which didn’t require much words at all, but that’s process is long. I scout for pictures, take about 200 photos, pick my favorite 10-15, edit them, shrink them, apply watermark, upload, and place into the web page. A lot of work, but sincerely worth it in my opinion.

So as I said in the beginning I did this method, but I fell behind so then I back logged my entries. having captured brilliant shots and videos during my 10 break in Shanghai, I was ready to do a big upload. But time was limited. So I waited more.

all the while my computer’s free space grew smaller and smaller. Taking thousands of pictures RAW format is very expensive on a systems hard drive. I decided to delete my Windows partition giving me 150gb to play with.

 

In a brilliant rush of inspiration I deleted my old partition without any though of the content on my windows side. The problem lays with how I decided to format this new valley of uncultivated disk space. I named it after me “S Fisher” because I am awesome, and I gave it a 20 character encrypted password.

If I was a smart little boy I would have restarted my computer after this process. I’m not smart, or little, so I didn’t follow best practice. I instead dragged my entire photo library to this new promised land and THOUGHT nothing of it.

 

two days later I DID restart my computer but suddenly my newly formatted space was asking me for my credentials. I told it what I knew, it told me I was wrong. There is no arguing wi a machine. One either knows the password or they don’t. So now I am locked away from 80gb of my own priceless memories in China in photograph / video form. I have racked my mind with all the computer science and computer forensic skills that exists regarding this matter. The closer I get te father I feel.  I cannot seem to remember, or crack my own password. It is case-sensitive, alpha numerical, and many characters long. A password so good even I don’t know it.

 

So where is Shia? In Shanghai, taking new pictures to replace those I have lost. Meeting new artists daily, and practicing my own art as well as Chinese everywhere I go. I am heading back in time, back to the past, and back to the states on the 28th. See you on the other side.