First, a big storm just hit and that might knock me out for the night. The heavens just opened up and roared.
Second, I’m sorry I’ve been absent, but the situation with my laptop left me in an anti-social mood. I’ll probably be here and there this weekend due to moodiness and being away for most of the time. So, I’ll try my best to visit blogs through my phone and the desktop computers if I can get to them.
The situation with my laptop is promising, but I won’t get a final answer on data recovery until Monday. I won’t have my laptop working again until middle/end of next week. I’m using my wife’s Chromebook and I really don’t like this thing. Keyboard doesn’t feel right and my meaty palms keep hitting the scroll pad. Still there’s a good chance I’ll recover the data and only have to get Firefox and the other programs again.
It’s actually become a lot more complicated and dire. Data recovery from a place can be $500-$2000 dollars, so I’m lucky a friend is helping. If it doesn’t work then the situation gets tricky. It’s no longer about the books because I can rewrite what I lost even though it will suck. There was something else that wasn’t backed up that can’t be replaced:
Videos of my son taken off my iPhone.
That’s what has me upset now because I can’t get those again. He’ll never be 2 or 3 again, which is where the videos are from. So, fingers crossed that I get good news on Monday. Also that I don’t have to use this dang Chromebook after tonight. I never knew my hands were this huge!
Legends of Windemere 
Charles absent is as rare as the honey moon. Take care.
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It’s going to drive me nuts. Though I’m sure every hiccup of my laptop is going to freak me out for a few days after it’s fixed.
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I still cringe when the boot up takes longer. I always think blue screen is next.
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Or you hear a strange noise. I think it’s more terrifying for my computer to make a subtle change of sound than my car.
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The only thing more terrifying is an airplane engine changing sound.
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That wins. Rather be camping and hear Jason Voorhies’s theme music.
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🙂
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I hope things work out for the best! I have my fingers crossed for you 🙂
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Thanks. Long weekend of waiting.
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So sorry about the videos. That’s a tough one too. I have never heard of Chromebook.
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It’s a Google-specific laptop. So it isn’t the most versatile thing in the world. It has a Google version of everything from what I’ve been told. I just wish it was bigger, so my hands didn’t keep engulfing it.
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Sorry to hear about the issues with your laptop, I’m sure that it’s very frustrating.
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Yeah. I think I’ve moved from frustrating to lost. I have to actually get out of bed to do my morning promos and blog wandering. I’m also more easily disposed from the desktops in this house. Hopefully it’ll all be fixed by Wednesday.
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I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
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Thanks. 🙂
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Good luck. I know your muse will be really angry if you don’t get those words back…
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Very much so. She hasn’t been the same since the gamma radiation. 😛
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…Don’t suppose you keep any kind of hard copy or journal or notes?
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I have an outline, but that’s really it. I’d have to do a rewrite and pray the spontaneous parts reappear. Sadly, the toddler videos were all digital and I never had a big enough storage device to back them up. Fixed that problem yesterday, but too late. With any luck, the data recovery that my mom’s coworker is doing over the weekend will revive everything.
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I am keeping my fingers crossed for you, Charles!I just lost my PC, thank Zeus I had all the videos and photos of my son stored at Dropbox, or I don’t think I’d ever recover from misery.
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Thanks. Most of the pictures are on the desktop. The videos were supposed to go on there, but never got around to it.
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I saw a newer post, so I backtracked to this one. Sigh. I’m sorry this happened!!!
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Yeah. It has not been a fun weekend.
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Oh no! I’ll wait for an update tomorrow….I hope important data can be recovered.
Ellespeth
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Me too. Probably won’t say anything until all of it is back.
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