Having returned 100% to work, I was all set to write a post last Monday, then the unexpected and oft-feared happened: my laptop (which serves as my primary business computer) crashed. Well, crashed is a strong, active sounding word. In fact, it simply wouldn't boot up at all.
Yipes. I hoped my back-up system worked!
Of course, my entire week became a work-around to keep business moving while recovering documents. I had great support from my IT consultant, Raymond. Thankfully. But as of this writing - while I will recover all documents and programs in the end - I will be without them until I return to work tomorrow.
The good news: my back-up plans worked better, but differently, than planned. I have a second computer in the office, a shared drive where I had manually saved some documents before traveling, and a computer at home. These days we also have web mail and remote access to PCs in other locations. Amazing. It worked with relatively little stress and will in the long run help me clean-up a few systems that probably needed it.
The most emotional moment of the entire process was on Tuesday when Raymond walked out with my laptop saying it would never return.
Years of wear and tear. The problem was physical, not the hard drive itself. I bought it the year I opened my business and carried that laptop with me everywhere in my purse (lovely little thing it was). Lately, we'd been to New York and Buenos Aires together. It was my connection to the world and home during those trips. I was in truth just trying to make it last through year-end when I could replace it with the latest operating system. But I wasn't expecting to "part" so soon.
I managed to resist the temptation to give it a little pat or kiss as Raymond stepped out of my office. I have to start being a grown-up sometime.
Bye bye little laptop! Hope you get all your data back, Jill!
Posted by: nice-cup-of-tea.livejournal.com | August 30, 2009 at 01:36 PM