Tuesday, February 1, 2011

no words

Literally. 
There have been no words. 
Last week, in a month where we are financially truly struggling, my computer died. Without warning. 
do they ever warn you? 
And I was first slightly optimistic (you could also call that denial)
Tried all the patient waiting tricks....no good. 
Called my trust wonderful apple guy
 he's who I call for anything/everything. 
(I cautiously don't like to bug him with incessant bombardment of inquiries but this was big)
and for the record, he never acts like I bug him, he's so patient.
He didn't sound as optimistic...in fact he said
"Hmmmm"
not good 
I sobbed. and sobbed. 
"Not this month" I cried! 
not when so many other things are going wrong. 
not my precious connection with the world and with my blogs and pictures and with ....lalalalala.

2 days later, with my plea to save my photos PLEASE. 
see...I had had the thought to back up only the week before, using TimeMachine. 
only, I didn't think it had worked. and I hadn't wanted to bug him, by asking if I had done it wrong....
Hmmmm.

He called, with good and bad news.
Photos saved
"thank you Jesus...and Bob"
but my machine was done.
:(

and gone were my fonts, my bookmarks, my downloads
but still I was thankful.

then, turns out when I handed over my hard drive
I HAD BACKED UP!!!!
funny thing is, I had spend several days mourning
see you can't check your back up without a computer..
:(

I was ever so thankful..but still a bit sad. 

He came by with my "stuff"
(he actually handed me my old hard drive! ha!)

I am grateful my photos are saved.
I am thankful for friends that rescued me by offering to let me use theres. 
I am content in knowing if all else failed
[which it didn't]
after a week of weariness 
finding things to be grateful for when all I wanted to do was throw a pity party worked. 

There are no words.


2 comments:

  1. boo flippin hoo - and that's not sarcastic. bummer.
    I pretended to lose my computer after I read your post. Just so I could be thankful when I 'found' it again. It didn't take long :)
    Here's to "it can only get better" -

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  2. Ada----so sorry to hear about your loss. And yes I do consider it a loss of sorts. I know there are worse things, but we are dependent on our technology. :(

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