Fortyhboobs's blog post - Computer crisis

Sorry for my silence, but D and I are in the midst of a possible crisis right now. We're having major problems with our desktop computer which meant no Internet yesterday but which might also mean the loss of EVERYTHING on our hard drive. And since we foolishly have not backed up files since February 2005, that would mean the loss of all of the thousands of pics D's taken of me, our videos, everything we've downloaded from the Internet and also been sent and had saved, everything I've written since 2/05, pics taken at family events and, most devastating, all 1500 pics taken during our recent vacation. The only vacation pics we'd have would be the ones I uploaded to Flickr to post in my blog.

We don't want to bring our computer in to be fixed right now because of all the identifiable pics of me, explicit videos, etc. on the hard drive (if they're even still there, and not totally corrupted). So, as I write, what D is doing is taking the hard drive from our "good" computer and installing it on an old one out in the garage. He hopes to be able to offload files from there and then destroy everything on the hard drive before bringing our computer in for repair. I've got my fingers and toes and everything else crossed that he'll be successful. I do not even want to think of the alternative.

The reason I'm able to write this now is that we went out last night and bought a laptop. It was definitely not in our budget and not something I thought we'd be buying this soon, but we cannot be without the Internet. Just can't happen. Thank God for zero-percent financing!

You can bet that from now on we'll be backing up files on a regular basis. In fact, we plan to burn the nude pics we take onto a DVD right after we finish a photo shoot. Which reminds me, if D can't get our files from the hard drive, I have NO pics to post until we have another photo session. What a bitch.

Talk about a tough lesson to learn...