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My Computer Died and I Lost a Ton of Data…What a Wonderful Gift!
A Year in the Death 1/21/21
This is my first post in two weeks. And while I hadn’t planned on sharing every daily contemplation during this year-long series on death, I certainly hadn’t planned on this long of a break either. But I didn’t have a choice.
On the morning of Friday, January 8 I decided to do some work at Denver International Airport before boarding my flight to Tampa. So I fired up my laptop, only to be greeted with with the dreaded “blue screen of death.” (And not the funny one pictured above.)
Long story short…after many hours on the telephone with Dell support and and in person with members of the local Geek Squad team, the diagnosis was terminal: my hard drive was dead. Not only that, all of the data contained on it had been corrupted and was not recoverable.
Did I mention I hadn’t run a full back-up of my system in a while…like years? DO’H!
Now, I had saved a few critical files on external drives — but not many. Consequently, I lost a LOT of data…work files, personal finance files, family photos…gone…never to be seen again.
So now what?
As I saw it, I had two choices. I could wallow in any number of destructive emotions and behavior: denial, anger, despair…
