Well so much for my promise to keep this up a bit better :/
Real Life has a way of thwarting the best of intentions! But I am here now so lets get on with the show :-)
I really have no major life lesson for today planned. I know, I know you are disappointed ;) but give me a moment to ramble and you know that soap box of mine will find its way out.
Recently I had a complete Hard Drive loss that truly made me realize just how much I have come to depend on this piece of technology. I not only lost programs that I am STILL trying to get back but I lost something even more valuable to me. Pictures of the last 3 years. When I realized that they were gone...well I became quite the girl and just sat back and cried. Yup, tears rolling down the face..cried.
I kept saying to myself over the months .."I need to copy all of these to disc" but I procrastinated and hemmed and hawed until it was too late. I found out later that my son might have been able to save the pictures as well as many other things on my hard drive had I not been so quick to try to "fix" my hard drive before talking to anyone. Talk about that making me feel even worse. :-(
Then it finally happened, The last breaths of my hard drive heaved out and my computer was kaput! This was yet another moment of freak..since I was working at home at the time and I use my computer to research all the things my work laptop blocks. So what did I do........ Well I spent my "lunch 1/2 hour going to Best Buy and getting a new Hard Drive. Because me without a computer is like a fish with no water.
15 years ago, I wouldn't have ever said that. Its amazing how one small piece of machinery has become the mainstay of my work AND free time.
Of course when I was at the store I perused all my choices and there in its shiny box was a beautiful 500GB hard drive sweetly calling.."Buy Me oh please buy me". So of course being the humanitarian I am I immediately cradled it to my heart :-) and took it home. I have loved it and kept it and named it George ;)
Ok so you think my major troubles are over now?...Wrong! My new HD is bigger and badder than either my old HD or even my slave HD and so my little computer was just struggling to even keep itself alive to keep this bad boy running. Hark...new power supply is now an imparetive!! (how do you spell that word) So same evening..I am back at the store getting a new Power supply so my new friend can come alive.
Then... the best thing of all happened.......my nephew called. He says I hear you had a meltdown...yup....and I hear you are bummed over losing a lot of pictures.....yup..... Well I happen to have a disc of the last 3 years of pictures. ......
To say I was estactic is an understatement, I was beyond euphoric!!!
He didn't have all of the pictures I had taken over the 3 years BUT he had quite a bit and most important...he had ALL of the pictures of my grand daughter. From the day she was born to just a few months ago. I apparently had made a copy of the pics for my sister and my nephew had it now. Can I get a Hell yeah!!!
As I was looking for all of the exes to continue loading programs.....I ran across another wonderful folder. I had saved all of the video I had made of my GD on my slave drive and forgotten that. Can we get another HELL YEAH!!!
Well suffice it to say...I was content at this point. I could now take the time I needed to find any and all other programs I wanted, be calm and happy with my new big and badass friend and I could stop beating myself up for not making a copy...I had :-)
so now I am slowly getting back into the swing of just enjoying my computer
and finally I got my blog bookmarked again so....maybe I can begin to finally keep that promise ;)
So the moral of this story is..... back up you crap ;)
and that is Enlightenment Tame Style.........
see ya on the flipside Gaterites :-)
Tame is a sci-fi junkie who loves to read, watch movies, and who has too
many pets. She grew up in the Midwest of the USA and now resides in sunny
Arizona, and drives her 19-year-old twins batty ... and still makes her
husband of 20 years laugh.
It's (imperative) that you call my son. The pictures are still on that old hard drive and can be reclaimed if you want to go to the trouble to do it. He had exactly the same problem with a thumb drive, I believe, and reclaiming them cost less than we imagined!
And please, tell George hello and remind him to play well with others!