I’m back in New Jersey now, counting down the days to graduation.  My school work leaves me nearly no time for photography, and as I type this I’m taking a break from writing my capstone project paper for my final class as an undergraduate college student.  It’s quite exhausting and I for one cannot wait for college to be over!  On a side note: Texas was a lot of fun, but it was good I didn’t bring my camera.  Can you believe I only saw four species of bird the entire time I was in Fort Worth (European Starling, Mourning Dove, Rock Pigeon, and House Sparrow)!

Anyway, I got an estimate back from the new data recovery company and it will cost $900 to have my hard drive recovered.  And that’s with the 10% discount from the referral!  As you may have guessed, I cannot afford for such an expensive recovery project (especially after I just had $740 in maintenance done on my car yesterday), so I have decided to have the company ship my drive back to me.  I will hold on to it in case the day ever comes when I decide some sycamore bark, a Short-eared Owl, and a Northern Harrier are worth $900.  The good news is, the company predicted a 85-100% chance for recovery, so should I ever really need those images back, I’ll hopefully be able to get them.