[screamo]

yeah, unfortunately i gotta accept my losses. I tried ssh and it ain't workin. So i'm gonna just keep trying for 5 to 10 minutes than try to restore...again. I attempted to restore just now. Nothing fancy, just hit the restore button, no "hold shift" and no outside programs. It didn't work though. I got some message saying it couldn't find the disk. So it's back to the same loop now

edit: whaddya know, i got in ssh. I had the wrong ip address in. (my ip address changes daily). Now i need to a) find the notes location and B) find a guide that will tell me what is potentially the problem. I'm gonna check out the preferences to the apps and maybe some of the little things that can hurt the system.