another of life’s little warnings against complacency — things have been going more or less swimmingly… yesterday’s system demonstration was well received so the project remains on schedule… & Sumie arrives tomorrow morning, about which i’m obviously very happy…
this calls for a hard disk failure — good (in the ironic sense) old (in the literal sense) speedpig went down in a (metaphoric) ball of flames last night… the drive appears to have one or more unrecoverable errors… again? hurrah. checks date of most recent backup… aw, crap. i’d been meaning to do something about that for a couple of months now… like, about eight… runs through mental checklist of things i really don’t wanna lose if it can be avoided:
- about eight months worth of writing… (unfortunately, it’s not like i have hard copies neither — my printer’s been living in the cupboard since i’ve been in coogee on account of lack of desk space… & my ratio of writing on computer to writing on paper is about 60-40… & i generally tend to bin manuscript as soon as it’s been typed up…)
- about eight months worth of photos & assorted images… (losing the images wouldn’t be such a wrench, but i’d prefer not to lose the photos…)
could be worse — could, obviously, be a lot better… you’d think, after the last time this happened, that i would’ve learnt… back those systems up, people.
