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Yesterday was one of those days.
The hard drive I have been coddling for some time decided it was the day to flicker, blip and darken into non cooperation. At times like these we realize how blessed we are to have adolescent males who understand the wondrous machines.
In short order the firstborn had a reconditioned unit up and running - but running Windows 7 and my old modem is too old - so we were off to purchase a new wifi. (Only seems to work on a lan cable, but that might be me and not it. It's working and I'm leaving it as it is for now.)
It is not often I leave my pup at home alone. He usually comes with me for the few short drives we have to do in any week, so I decided to lock him safely in the courtyard. Now, I have heard the lovely Dr Harry and Dr Chris Brown, telly vets, speak about separation anxieties in dogs that result in destructive behaviours. I wonder if it is not spite, flat out. There used to be a garden along the brick wall of my courtyard. Now there are some sticks.
Because he is spoiled, I am tempted to blame my old dog, firstly because she should have known better and talked him out of digging, and she plainly didn't. Maybe she wanted him to get into trouble... And secondly because it was her rather portly self filling the large hole they had dug when we got home. Also, her coat is white and shows the mudstains far more damningly than his black hair.
Anyway...nothing to be done about it. Now I have spent last night and today finding out just how much I lost. The prawn of my loins managed to hook the old HDD up to the new one and get some of the data across safely, but I have been redownloading all those programmes I rely on every day, and hunting through my flashes for back ups of all sorts of things.
It always seems to be emails that I lose most of. I don't know how to save them.
So. Amusing and diverting, and not at all frustrating and enraging. I think I am almost done and can get back to work, with a little Vivaldi.
Best wishes - and don't forget to backup your files.
L.
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2 comments:
ah backups and online data storage... and external hard drives with mirror copies of files and programs... paper copy is good too... because DVD's and CD's only last about 5 yrs... so have backups of them too... archive and organise ... best thing to do and delete extraneous files and pics... raf might have to go..
Rafael extraneous?? ZIFF! Letitia is in fact being Raf over on FB this week. And we all know it is not the being that makes us divine - it is the knowing. The lovely thing about him tho, is KNOWING his folio is so web wide there is never a danger of losing the lovely. Other less important things have vanished forever.
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