So, it’s been a lovely holiday season so far and we’ve got an open house planned for New Year’s Day. One nearly major problem last night turned out to be less traumatic than it could have been, thanks to my beloved GeekHusband, David. We had a network crash, lost internet connection and then, when we got that up and running, it appears our primary network external hard drive lost everything. I store all my artwork files – photos, communications, administrative records, etc. etc., as well as our family photo archive (thousands of photos going back a couple of generations at least).
Fortunately, I’d made a backup of the “Moesse” files last month when we went to England and we found another external archival hard drive (yeah, geekspouse has a few), had most of the family photos too. And my Whitehall stuff is on another hard drive that didn’t die at all. So, with the exception of a few things, I think we are ok. Still, it was scary enough in the time it took us to locate lost files that we decided to set up a Carbonite account for mirroring ALL of our stuff off site. The $59 a year is well worth the peace of mind. In addition, you can be damn sure we’ll be burning old school DVD’s of all the pics and other data files to store offline too — just in case a cyber attack crushes the internet someday…
On another subject, my eyes are going wonky again and I don’t think I’ve had time to breathe let along be on the IPhone or use my eyes for fine detail work lately and yet, the eyes are losing focus again. Agh! In addition, I feel a huge amount of pressure because of sinus problems and wonder if that could be the cause of some of the eye problems?
Well, if that’s the worst of my problems, I should / do consider myself lucky…