Kathleen Rules!, Part Two
As you may have read yesterday, Monday witnessed two significant technological catastrophes at home: a broken air conditioner and computer. And, as you may have read, Kathleen helped solve the former on Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday afternoon (her birthday!) she called me at work and told me she’d see if she could wrangle me a loaner computer to use until Miriam and I could get a new laptop. And, sure enough, at 8:30 last night she and Steve came by with a computer and a CD-ROM of Windows XP with all the significant security updates and such. It was incredible and entirely undeserved. There’s kindness and generosity, and then there’s this.
So, Miriam and I will try perhaps this evening to shop for a laptop computer, and I am going to attempt to salvage the data from the hard disk of our deceased computer, but it isn’t looking good. When I plugged it in to our loaner, it immediately recognized the drive, but 90% of the data was missing, including all of my pictures and MP3s. I’m going to try and run some file-recovery software, but it’s a nerve-wracking process. The only consolation I have is that I have made DVD backups of my images going back several years, so the only total losses will be the most recent images – those from March and April, perhaps. Many of these have already been uploaded to Flickr, but many more haven’t, and they may be gone. Also possibly lost are the outtakes of photoshoots with GRR girls Patsy Clothesline, Ms. Rebel, and Demonomia and the outtakes from their first bout, too, though the Flickr galleries are safe, of course.
Filed under: Friends, Photography, Technology on May 15th, 2008
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