Monday, October 19, 2009

Finally, I Have Something to Say...

I feel almost like a stranger here.

Yes, this is my blog. I created it. I put my thoughts, dreams, nightmares ... yep, I put it all here in black and white for all of you (all 10 or so that you are) to read but yet I feel strange about this.

So much has happened but I guess not enough or not exciting enough to drudge through it all for you.

I have changed and I'm not exactly sure how or why or when or what happened but I am different somehow and I am getting used to my new skin. I shed the old and still trying to feel comfortable in the new. It takes time.

I don't think many of you would even recognize the change but something happened during and after the Disney vacation. Something happened after my laptop crashed and I lost hundreds maybe thousands of pictures. Something happened when my babies started school and are now involved with Flag Football, Bible Quizing and playing the drums.

I think I grew up. (OH THE SHAME OF IT ALL.)

They are no longer babies and I am no longer treating them like babies. A mommy has to grow up too. It is a very tramatic thing to have to do, and I didn't like it much.

The loss of some of my photographs is killer. It is painful! Each night I spend several hours trying to recover what I know is lost. I may be able to send the drive out, spend a grand or more and have most if not all of my photos returned to me but at this point spending a grand on that is NOT financially possible.

So I suffer with the loss. Maybe it is worth a grand for me to NOT suffer.

I think the suffering actually made me ill. I seriously believe it.

So, onward and upwards.

I bought myself a terabyte of network storage. Uploaded my music and pictures to it ... the ones I have managed to salvage and I am healing slowly.

I still have to find a backup solution for the stuff I have been able to save.

How are all of you saving your digital photos? Do you burn DVD's and put them in the fire-safe? Do you save someplace online? I need advise folks so I'm asking the best of the best ... the mommies that would hate to be in my shoes lately.

If you haven't thought of a backup strategy - BE WARNED! DO IT NOW!

It's good to be back.
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2 comments:

  1. Hey lady, I'm so sorry about your photos. I lost a portion of my photos for last summer and I'm very sad. As for storage, I hang on to all of the camera memory cards, and burn a backup CD of my harddrive every few months (to save both photos and my gigantic family tree data file). Those are both in our fire safe. Beyond that, they are also uploaded to Facebook but it destroys the quality so it is hardly a storage space.
    Good luck!
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  2. Hello,
    Welcome back!

    After hearing several close friends lose data due to hardware malfunctions or virus infected machines, I decided it was high time to back my stuff up.

    Twice a month I burn CDs to back up my files (most of which are photos).
    I also burned copies onto DVD (each holds 4GB - dual layered twice that).
    And for triple redundancy I also backed up my entire hard drive onto an external hard drive....

    The ext hard drive and one copy of the DVDs are located in a safe place away from my primary residence....

    Good luck!
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