Public Service Announcement.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009People, back up your computers. Right now. Do it! But don’t then hide your backup and forget where you put it, because that wouldn’t be a very smart thing to do. Would it?
Chris’ desktop (the one with thousands of pictures and videos from P’s first three years) was sluggish last winter, so he bought an external hard drive and dumped all our photos and videos on it in order to free up space on the desktop. Before we left for China, I had the bright idea of hiding that external hard drive, you know, in case a bunch of thieving geeks broke in. In typical me style, I hid the thing too well and have been frantically tearing apart every inch of every closet, drawer, and cabinet in this house for the past three weeks in an effort to find it. After a crazed hour or so of searching one night last week, I flipped out, went into a state of embarrassingly high melodrama, and found myself sobbing to P, “Oh, P, you were such a cute, sweet baby, and now all the evidence of that is gone. What are we going to do?” P looked at me, rolled her eyes, and went back to her Wiggles viewing.