Remember a few days ago I was in tears because my external hard drive took a dump?  (Okay I wasn't crying but I was pretty pissed.)  Anyway...my wife took the thing to work and the techs at her place of employment performed what I would call a miracle.  All they did was remove the drive itself (which works perfectly) from the enlclosure (which was the actual problem) and hook it to a computer.  They then took all the data and put it into another external drive.

With extreme glee I burned all the photos and good stuff to a couple of DVD's and now all is good with the world.

The plan now is to put the "new" drive inside the computer and use it that way.  All the extra storage without the cluttered computer desk.

In the meantime here's one of the pictures I lost and got back.  It's a photo of my male gecko Sam.  On the left is Leo, one of my females.