So you can understand my distress last weekend when my 12 year old computer went ka-blew-y and would not allow me access to anything.... it wouldn't even turn on. But I wasn't phased by this. I'm a smart cookie (or so I thought), so I plugged in my handy external hard drive.
This is when I started to panic.... it went on... but nothing happened. A small connecting to Windows noise and then a decidedly bad sounding "kerchunk-kerchunk" noise and the Windows disconnect noise.
I had never considered that my one back-up might not be enough.
Of course, I have entertained many friends and family through the main videos and videos we have been taking of our growing J-man. In this one instance, I thought I had lost every photo and video I had taken of J over the last 10 months. Every birth until now picture, wiped out in this pictureless moment.
I admit sometimes I don't print pictures as fast as I would like. Heck, sometimes I don't print them at all. I certainly am not displaying some of our favourites throughout our home, and almost everything I have printed recently has been for grandparents or great grandparents.
How did I not pay attention to protecting these photos that are equivalent to gold to me? These are irreplaceable. I think I started to cry and panic around this point that I realized I may not be able to get them back.
My April resolution is to find a better way to back-up these photos in a way that they will still be around in the case of a total misfailure like this, and to print more for display and use, because I definitely have favourites.
The good news is, the computer saviour found that it was just my video card that fried. Upon removal on that, the computer went back on and I could get at some of my precious pictures. My loving husband and son went to Wal-Mart and purchased a new 1T external hard drive to save them on to. Phew....
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