heartbreak

As many of you have already seen on my Facebook page, Jose is no longer with us. Actually, he's sitting in a metallic bag on my desk, but his soul is long gone. R, Samuel said there was too much damage done to the main area of the hard drive, to the point that they couldn't even get it running at all. I'm hanging onto it with the hopes that maybe, in some ultra technologically genius future, someone will be able to fix this. I might try to send it off to another company, but I also don't want to hold out false hope.

At this point, I've re-installed what software I have, re-created all of my work-related documents, and have begun re-saving honeymoon and wedding pictures from other sources. We only have about 10 hi-res photos left (the ones I was uploading when disaster struck), so I printed those and am framing them for the living room. Otherwise, what we have on the blog is it. I know that may seem like a lot (or at least something), but really...I had 10 times as many photos as what we posted online. And of course, some of the best / most personal ones were never posted. Not to sound overly dramatic, but it is truly heartbreaking to me. I have such a bad memory and now feel like I'll eventually forget all of the fun on the "sidelines" that we don't have documented.

I've been trying to find a lesson in all this. Clearly, I need to back everything up. If this had been pictures of my child's birth or something, I would be devastated. So I guess there's less of a chance of me doing something stupid like that in the future. Any other silver linings? Anyone? Anyone?

The best I can hope is that YOU will back up all your stuff, all the time, every day. So get to it!