Within the past two months, I’ve experienced the following technical malfunctions:
- My hard drive at work got a virus. To clean it up, our tech guy had to rebuild it. The process of rebuilding, however, erases all the previously stored data. So, I’ve spent the last couple of months reloading software and searching for documents that I can capture from email, etc. Pain in the ass, but nothing at work is all that important. I don’t really care if I lose everything there. So what. Go forward.
- My home laptop hard drive crashed. A pain and an expense. I paid $130, and the genius at the Apple store installed my new hard drive right there on the spot. Love, love, love Apple Store. I was out the door in a flash. However, I was out the door with an empty computer. Fortunately, I back up to an external hard drive what I always considered my really important stuff. Until now, I didn’t realize that all that music on my iTunes library would feel so important. I don’t have an extensive music library, but those are the songs I turn to when I need music, you know? No problem, I told myself…I have all that stuff on my iPhone and which syncs to my laptop.
- Then, I lost my iPhone and had to replace it with another iPhone. However, I hadn’t yet synced my old iPhone to my new laptop, so all of my contact information and all of my music disappeared with my old phone.
I’ve already re-entered my go-to people and their contact information on my new phone, but I haven’t figured out a way to get my music loaded. I’ll be working on that throughout the day today. One bright note: I don’t clean up my computers very often, and these cleansings have given me sort of a fresh start. I feel lighter. But nostalgic.
Not Alice 
