You know that sinking feeling that something dreadful but not life threatening has happened but you arent sure just what it is? Well my computer not turning on kind of sent me in a bit of a tailspin when Dwayne told me that he thought the hard drive was fried and all of my pictures were gone! Ack! NOOOO! I *meant* to back them up on disk of course, but had I actually gotten around to it? Of course not.
He got my computer working, thank goodness, but he couldnt reassure me that it wouldnt just randomly turn off and never turn back on. So I spent a good few hours backing up all the pictures on CD-ROM and now that I have them in hand I am feeling MUCH better about the possibililty of my computer crashing. Not that I want it to happen but if it does, I am not losing years of pictures of my children that I cant get back again. Although, on the upside, I send pictures to SarahJanet so often that I am sure she has almost as complete a directory as I do.
I am now, more slowly, backing up all the NaNo stuff I have written, the miscellaneous writing bits I have strewn here and there and other tidbits of stuff I'd like to keep.
Whew. Nothing like a scare like this to raise the blood pressure.
8:29 p.m. - 2005-06-27