This is just a quick side-note post to help anyone out who may end up in the predicament I was in yesterday after upgrading my iPhone software. Seems I wasn’t the only user by far to have encountered this same problem, but worst of all, NOT ONE thread anywhere that I read while trying to find a solution, had a solution. Thankfully, I fixed mine BY ACCIDENT! So here’s the gist of it:

1. After successfully downloading the new version 5 and then your iPhone reboots and restores itself and all that stuff, you might get the following error right at the very end of your phone restore (just when you think everything was going to finish without any issues!):
2. ‘An unknown error has occurred (-1)’ or some other variation of this.
3. You will then get a message (if you leave your phone plugged to your computer) prompting you to choose from the following: CANCEL, RESTORE BACKUP, DELETE BACKUP.
4. First go ahead and try to RESTORE BACKUP a few more times.
5. If that doesn’t work and you keep getting the same error message, do the following:
6. Choose CANCEL and let the phone completely boot up and start to prompt you to set up your ‘new’ iPhone.
7. FROM THE PHONE ITSELF, you can then choose to RESTORE FROM BACKUP.

Seems like while trying to do this on my computer, it was a never-ending error loop, but when doing it only from the phone itself, it worked just fine.

I ran across a few photo manipulations of me that various artists did and wanted to put them up. I used to do a lot of stock photography and offered up photos for graphic artists to use. Here are two of the better ones I have found.

This one above was used in a Photoshop tutorial and I loved the end result! Click the images for full view.

This one is by Equina over on DeviantART. I really liked it because I kind of look like an alien with how she altered my eyes!

Lastly, the one below is one I did myself. I never finished it, but I wasn’t sure where I was going with it anyway. I liked doing the pointy ears though!

So that’s pretty much all I have to say tonight. I’m trying to force myself to stay up later (ok, so I just found something else to say) because I have been in the habit of going to bed by 10-10:30 p.m. every night for the past several years. I need time in the day to write! I hate having to work  a day job. I work all day and am exhausted by the time I get home and I waste away all the time I could be using to write. I hate it! Yeah I know, it’s not a story everyone else hasn’t already heard, but I had to get it out, nonetheless.

Ok, so I think I’m really done now.

Goodnight.

Just a quick update – you’ll see it looks as if I haven’t posted anything in over a year and that is because my blog was hacked and the most recent backup I had was July 2009! Lesson learned: ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR SITE. Anyway, I’ll be redoing my pages and all that exciting (sarcasm) stuff over the next week. I tried to ditch the blog completely and just use a different theme, but nothing felt right and I missed THIS theme and ultimately went back to it.

So yeah.