Bad week for electronics
Monday: Misplace my Palm sometime in the afternoon. Well, I was going to replace it anyway, it was 4+ years old. And I had all the addresses and stuff backed up anyway, because I synced it with the laptop. So of course…
Friday: Work late, close up the laptop, take it home. Get it home and, well, the hard drive had failed. Wouldn’t spin up or something. Still under warranty, so I take it to Bast Buy (great deals on cat goddesses)… sure they can fix it, but they have to ship it to Cleveland. Two weeks, minimum. (It’s a looong way from Ann Arbor to Cleveland, apparently.) And the data on the drive are gone completely anyway. Of course, I could always just replace the drive myself… but if they ship it off for service, they can also check the memory and think about replacing the LCD (couple dozen dead pixels). Two weeks, minimum. If it takes more than 70% of the original cost to fix it, they’ll replace it…. I’m sold.
Fortunately, I had *most* of the essential stuff backed up on the desktop at home. Most, not all… current addressbook was lost, might’ve lost some pictures, definitely lost my Endnote references. Not even sure what else I’m now missing.
And so now I’m laptopless, and Palmless. This is the least electronic I’ve been in years. Good reminder to back up, though, thoroughly and often.