Kicking Myself

Yesterday was a bad day.

It started off great. I was up early doing work stuff and Connor had a great night. After breakfast and a quick nap for me and Connor my computer was frozen and after I restarted it I got a flashing file folder with a question mark.....NEVER a good thing.

Long story short: my hard drive is toast. I was unable to recover any files. The Apple Store was unsuccessful, but did give me a new hard drive. A local store was also unable to get anything off so I sent it to Gillware in Wisconsin. They do professional data recovery and my hard drive is going to have to undergo mechanical surgery (it was clicking....).

I am much better today than I was yesterday. Since I have been awful with updating the blog in the last month (or Facebook) I completely lost an entire month worth of Connor pictures. Of course I lost a lot of my high resolution files, but at least I have some from other sources.

The photos hurt emotionally and the 30 book covers that I will have to completely redo hurt mentally, psychologically and physically (if you count sleep deprivation due to catch-up-work).

Of course I know I'm supposed to back up on a regular basis or have a system in place to do so. The problem is life gets busy and I just lost track of time. It is amazing how quickly 3 months goes by.

So, there is still hope. My hard drive will reach Gillware tomorrow and I should know something within 5-7 business days. If they are able to recover files it will cost me $800. Not cheap, but a steal compared to DriveSavers charging over $2000. They guy on the phone said they have about an 80% success rate with my specific type of drive, so I am realistically optimistic.

In the meantime....I'm basically running on adrenaline.

I promise to post some pictures of Connor soon. He is growing up so fast!!!

(oh yeah....don't buy a plastic MacBook....for over the extra cash for the aluminum one. That seems to be a huge problem because the average life of a hard drive in a plastic MacBook is 12-18 months.....urg. I guess I should be glad mine lasted 25 months.)