Depression November 29, 2006
Posted by reload in Life.add a comment
Sorry folks, I know it has been a while since I added anything of interest here. Perhaps it is just the gloomy weather outside or the fact that I can’t seem to shake this cold. Maybe it has more to do with the fact that although the work load has increased, the debt load has not decreased. That could be the reload of this post — go back and do it over but without making so much debt. What can I say, I am typically American! And like so many of us, I don’t seem to be getting any closer to that American Dream. Just my middle-aged realizations of my many failures, I guess.
Perhaps I should give up on this blog thing also; I don’t seem to be very good at it.
Literal Reload November 7, 2006
Posted by reload in Computers, Life, Marriage/Family.add a comment
Well, it happened again: the IT guy got behind on his backups and had a hard drive crash. This in itself would not be so bad if it weren’t for the fact that it is the wife‘s business computer that crashed! Major RELOAD!
All is not lost though, I was able [after about twelve hours of intense mental labor] to get the machine to boot far enough to run chkdsk and recover from the error enough to save the data. That machine still will not network but I’ve made great use of a USB drive to pull the much needed data.
My closing comment: How much data (photos, writtings, and financial data) is only on your computer? You don’t have to back up every file on the drive but make sure you have your important files copied to another device. And to be really safe [from things like fire or home destroying storms] keep a copy off-site in a safety deposit box or at somebody else’s house. You don’t want to get caught in a “wish I could but can’t - reload” situation!
