Worst week of my life ever!
Life had been going absolutely great until last Saturday when I braved Ikea, Bunnings and Moore Park Supacentre all in one afternoon. Was so frazzled when I got home that my hand-eye co-ordination went out the window. WHACK with a stray left arm and I spilt a full glass of Diet Coke over the keyboard of my beloved laptop.
Love you!
The trauma was too much. I went in to Mac-shock. It just fizzled out. Lost power. Lost my screen. Lost my will to live.
I turned him upside down and laid him in his final resting place – across a folded towel on my coffee table.
I was so upset I had to go out and get drunk.
In the cold light of Monday morning I gently carried my second best friend (behind Little Sammy of course) into the IT boys at work for a diagnosis. Not looking good. Just 18 months worth of work and 1000′s upon 1000′s of photos fried in a diet coke electronic fry-pan. I was one bad-hair day away from moving to the mountains and living in an ashram. I literally felt like part of me had shrivelled up and died.
I was a zombie for the entire day. Everyone kept saying to me “…but haven’t you backed up?” NO I HAVE NOT FUCKING BACKED UP! I don’t even know what backing up is? I felt just like my heroine Carrie Bradshaw when dumbarse Aiden asked her the exact same thing in Series 4. Carrie and I have so much in common it scares me.
Sums up my week....
In times of crisis such as this everyone has advice. Thank god I listened to some of it. Despite thinking the last 18 months of my life had been lost I carted my shameful arse off to a data recovery place, quietly shed a single tear as I told them my story, and waited for the verdict – two discs damaged and there was already corrosion, they would do what they could. “We’ll let you know by Friday.”
But my pain had not ended… I am SOOOOOO being punished for being a dirty drunken slut of late. Due to work being at capacity there was not a laptop to be found so I would have to go a week without. Why don’t you stab me through the heart and call me old! No laptop means no proper tweeting, no blogging, no online life. It has been HIDEOUS!!!! So hideous I can’t even tell you. Not even my iPad could console me.
Comfort eating....
But on Friday the sun began to shine again (also I called on my guardian angel for help). Firstly the data recovery people think they’ve been able to save most stuff – so joyous I can’t even describe. Whipped myself off to JB HiFi and ran through the front door yelling “Give me your biggest hard drive”. Got a very difference response tow hen I say that at the Shift. The secondly, the IT Boys came through with a new laptop. Possibly happiest day of my life.
So I sit here now caressing my new Mac and dreaming of Monday when I pick up my massive hard drive jammed packed full of St. Murphy treasures.
Never again will I pull a Carrie. Someone who lives there life online like me should always be backed-up.
And possibly should drink big glasses of Diet Coke while tapping away on their second-best friend.
And finally, a Mo update.
Hilarious! Its a good reminder jar how much we rely on the little boxes….
Ok, i’m sure you’ve been told this already, but the Mac time machine is the best way to go, here’s a simple “how to”
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Keep in mind you can also buy a second cheaparse hard drive and do it again once every few months, unplug it and take it to work just in case the worst happens and someone steals your computer AND hard drive. I know it sounds paranoid, but it’s a hundred bucks to make sure you never have this happen again.
Oh my goodness you have just lived out one of my worst nightmares! Happy to hear you officially back on line now!
By the way, shameless promotion – my super cool hubby has an online backup service that would have saved you a lot of grief this week: http://xmanonline.com.au/index.php?page=online-backup
Let me know if you want me to hook you up (comes with a 30 day free trial)
I wondered where you had gone for the week……..I better myself backed up too ! No more diet coke for you !
Serves you right for drinking Diet Coke that shit is gross!!!!
Ummmmm still waiting on the promised phone call, did you spill that disgusting cola on your phone too?
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You’ll be pleased to know that same happened to me two years ago. And it took that to do a back up! I’ve got the cloud thingy now too. And do you back up your blog? Last mo week – Kester looks like a 70s pool man and his work is going through till Sat – if they all wear mo to the Christmas party the boss is upping the donations.
The mo is Hideous