So last night (Saturday) as I was attempting to download a particularly large file into MovieMaker, my computer crashed. Hard. Or maybe it choked. Something is caught in its throat and whatever Heimlich maneuvers I know are not clearing it. I assume I have probably lost half a day's worth of photo editing for the social change video.
I spent the morning setting up Chloe's school computer (thank you once again, Insight School of Washington) to use in the interim. Thank you also to Delicious and Google for making my life at least workable through this unfortunately-not-singular event.
I have phoned my resident tech friend and am saying little prayers that he can work some magic for me on Monday. My commitment to buy a Mac after selling my house this spring (or getting bought out, whichever the case may be) has shifted to buying one at Christmas break when I will have time to transfer files and learn how to use it. Life is too short for this kind of chaos and I have lost all patience for this kind of breakdown.
Personal Learning takeaway: enough is enough. Action is everything. And I will take it the moment I can lift up my head from this quarter and breathe.
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Sorry to hear about your hardware issues — glad to hear that moving somewhat to the "cloud" has made a difference for you. I'm not to the point where I can quite do without my own computer, but I can now do a couple of days with only my iPhone and sharing other people's computers.
ReplyDeleteIt must be that time of year. My hard drive kicked it on my Mac 34days after its three year warranty ended. But I got a new hard drive and with Time Machine I was up and running within 48hours and used the down time to full move online with Gmail and could not be happier!
ReplyDeleteDelicious and Google were a blessing at this time.
Are you going with a Macbook or Macbook Pro? If you want a Pro I might suggest waiting a few more months for the next edition as they are about 90days away from the typical cycle of change, but the Macbook just changed and is rocking! Better than my current Pro and able to more than do everything we have covered in this class.
Yikes! It looks like you really have a case study on decisive action that takes a whole assessment of a more complicated situation. Mainly, I'm mega impressed with the aura in this post and that you brought to the intensive & classes. I would be a wreck (not that you weren't) if this happened to me. Life does go on as it seems you realized and we as humans living our lives must do so also.
ReplyDeleteIf I think back to all of my crashes, not saved lost documents and etc. It was days before I finally "took a breath." Thank you for the lesson. Next time (and yes there will probably be a next time), I will take the pause you so gratefully shared with us here.