R.I.P. 160GB Hard Drive

My hard drive died last night - spectacularly or horribly depending on your point of view. The most frustrating thing about this is (shuffles foot a little) I hadn't made a backup yet this week! So all those new words on Thursday? Yeah - gone. :-( I mean - I wasn't 100% thrilled with them anyway - but they were there. I usually back up my writing files to a thumb drive after every writing session - but it was late; I was tired; and I thought, oh, I'll do it in the morning. *sigh* Luckily, I did have a backup and a spare 80GB drive, so the most I've lost is anything from about the last week. And a few of those things I have been able to reconstruct. Any new bookmarks from the last week are gone - but if those things occur to me again, I'm sure I'll find those sites again.

So this is my public service announcement to all writers: no matter how tired you are, back everything up.

And now I'm off to search for a new 160GB drive.

helllloooooo?

I like the echo in here. It's neat.

I can't believe how much I've forgotten about web page design.
I've been so settled into the designs on two of my other sites - that I've
just left them and now all the things I learned to create them? POOF!
Gone, apparently.

I have a couple of sites I want to redesign - and this sudden knowledge-
shrinkage is disturbing. At my Blogger and LiveJournal pages, I don't
worry too much about the designs because the point is to have places to
touch base with people I know - almost like disconnected chat - but my
regular pages are different.

Hmmm - and I don't even remember what I don't now know. What a mess.

Wish me luck!

So - here I am -- again

This is just a filler post - something to get the ball rolling - keep a place holder - you know.
I usually do most of my posting over at http://www.writepamwrite.com

Still - it never hurts to have a backup.

;-)

Ta for now!

~PJ~