Well, Fudge

[jmward14]

Originally published at Jean Marie Ward. You can comment here or there.

My main computer has crashed. Guess who’ll be heading to Best Buy tomorrow. I hadn’t planned on buying a new computer this year, but it’s been four years, and my luck with repairs to old computers has been less than stellar.
It’s not like I didn’t expect something like this to happen. Yesterday morning I woke from a dream of babies. To understand how bad this is, you have to know the dream signs my mom taught me:
- Insects, spiders and other bugs: little problems.
- Mice and rats: bigger irritations.
- Cats and dogs: significant problems you need to address quickly.
- Babies: bar the door and hide under the bed, because they’re coming to get you NAO.
At least I didn’t dream of brides = death.
The funny part about this is Mom was a psychiatric nurse and a Jungian. I don’t know if she ever realized what her dream shorthand said about where her head was at. On the other hand, as long as it worked reliably, she probably didn’t care.
Geez, I’m glad I didn’t wipe the SD disks with the Balticon video interviews. Still, I hope they can retrieve my data. There are several days worth of fiction I hadn’t shipped to my various emails. And before you say it: I tried those off-site back-ups. They were, to put it politely, problematic.

Comments

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Mac with an external hard drive. Time Machine will take care of it all for you.

Of course, it could just be me and my bias. :-)

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

Exactly what Greg said. But the last time I did that, he took the brand shiny new Mac to New Jersey with him, and I didn't see either of them, except on occasional weekends, for a year and a half LOL

[trolliedoo.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Hope you made back ups of everything! Thats why I keep a copy of various things on my flash drive and every so often burn a copy to disk :)

[jmward14.livejournal.com]

I try, but there's always stuff you miss, or don't think is important enough until you need it. But the Geek Squad guys think they can retrieve all my data and transfer it to the new computer. The cost to repair the old one was more than half the cost of a new one--more if I could've gone with a basic model. :-P