Crrrraaaasssshhhh!!!
It’s that thing you tell yourself only happens to other people…until it happens to you. Yup, on Friday my laptop hard drive crashed, and with it quite a bit: my vacation pictures, my freelance work for the past few months, the cure for cancer. Sigh.
Fortunately, the hard drive is covered under an extended warranty, so I’m getting a new hard drive in two weeks. Unfortunately, the data recovery (if it works) is setting me back $650. In the meanwhile, I’m on my PC (it got backed up as soon as I got on it) and keeping my eyes peeled on any available MacBooks to migrate to.
It’s amazing to see how independent one can be with the Internet. I lost my bank account pins as well as the username/logins for several accounts, but these loses are all remedied thanks to one or two main e-mail addresses. My bookmarks are on del.icio.us (although my collection of RSS Feeds aren’t), And all of my thesis work looks to be backed up.
Of course, anyone who knows me knows I’m going nuts without working. I don’t know how many more Madden games I can take…