well, thanks to a catastrophic malware attack on my computer, I lost literally everything on my computer a couple days ago in an instant (before anyone asks, yeah, I tried everything, it was all wiped from my harddrive completely and recovery programs could only dig up almost 280GB of /broken/ files.)

And so we start 2012 with a clean slate.

I did start the year off well, though!  my girlfriend visited for 10 days and we had an absolutely amazing time together, and just before she went home again we both bought new tablets!  Now if I just hadn't lost all my art programs... sigh.

it's gonna be a long year but I'm staying optimistic.

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