filed under: phrases I had never expected to utter “I'm opening my computer for gynecological reasons”

I currently only have one corset that almost, but not quite fits: it's a couple cm too low on the bust level, and after a few hours it starts to hurt. On the other hand, when I start feeling bloated on my first day of the cycle, wearing a corset helps *a lot*.

So yesterday I decided “tomorrow I'm going to work on making myself a new corset”

so I headed to the directory where I expected to find my corset pattern. and it's not there.

I could find a preliminary version of the file I was working on, which I think (hope!) has all the points, but not the actual pieces. And I don't want to have to re-draw those.

And I think I've found the latest revision of the measurement files, hopefully.

And then I remembered that inside my computer there was the previous hard disk, disconnected. So today I turned the pc off, disconnected all cables, opened the computer, connected the old hard disk, reconnected most cables, turned the pc on, checked that it was actually starting the right system (it was), turned the pc off, disconnected all cables, closed it, reconnected all cables, turned the pc on, mounted the old hard disk.

And found that that hard disk was too old. and didn't have the repo I was looking for.

Then I realized in my home I had the files from my old, but not so old laptop. I found one more commit to the corset pattern. it's still not complete.

I'm still searching. there are various hard disk around the house.

(I also have at least two, dated, copies of the paper pattern, so at least I know what date I'm looking for. but they are not very useful if I want to fix the issues and publish the pattern on my website)