Here's a little tip for you guys doing digital art:
BACK EVERYTHING UP
Just ten minutes ago, I was freaking out because my flash drive got a dump taken on it by my Windows desktop (it's front USB port is loose and just bumping the drive will make it eject and reconnect, causing Windows to eventually label it as "corrupted" internally) and I had to pull all the stuff I could off it using a special program, but that's a different story. I was searching through all the de-named files in the folder I made for all the recovered information, and I began to realize that a few of my extremely important school/business files (a couple .PSDs, two .FLPs and a recent render of a song) had all become partially or completely corrupted. I also couldn't find a couple of my most recent sketches. After the aforementioned freaking out, I scoured my temporary files and looked through SketchBook Pro's "open recent" thing, and eventually after more frantic searching, found the most recent version of my super-important sketch (character design for something) hidden away in SBP's iCloud folder.
Unfortunately, one PSD that contained a finalized version of my ideation for a project was unsalvageable and the other one has crazy horizontal striations in Finder's Quick View and only sometimes opens at all in PS. Moral of the story: Back your crap up in any way possible. I use iCould because my laptop and mobile devices get to it easily, but if not that, use Dropbox or something (hell, even SkyDrive if you're desperate).
In lighter news, I got one of them newfangled Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch tablets. It's small, and it's amazing if you don't want to go between your tablet and mouse/trackpad. $100 might be a bit much for some people, but considering the functionality that $25 adds over the standard Intuos Pen, it's a crazy good deal even just for a 3.7"x6" trackpad.
For your time, here's a random doodle:
