So I finally got Word saved on my laptop. I have also uploaded my wireless keyboard and mouse from the desktop as well as the printer. All my CD’s have been ripped – ah gotta have Chris Cagle and Rascal Flatts to write you know! Is it wrong for me to say I feel human again?

Well I guess not entirely human. I still have to re-do anything and everything that is stuck in the old desktop hard drive. Anything I have worked on the last year I have lost (until I can get a new desktop, which isn’t looking like until tax return season since we have three b-day’s and Christmas to contend with) or better said put into deep storage. Not so bad. I always have a new story line or two in head ready to go, so I can just put the six that are in storage for later use and hopefully by then I will have more thoughts to work on them. I shouldn’t whine. All the info is safe and not truly gone, just inaccessible for the time being.

I have, however, learned a few powerful lessons.

1) back up your work
2) back up your work again
3) back up your work online if possible
4) back up your work on paper (archaic as it might seem, hard copies were once the choice of many at one time!)

I still have no contact info for the folks in my address book, no e-mail, phone or snail mails. (How said is it that I don’t have my dad’s info anywhere else?) You don’t realize how many people you correspond with until you lose contact with 90 % of them at once. SHEESH. (If you have my e-mail addy, write, I wanna hear from you :-) please!)

But it is somewhat fun, liberating if you will, coming up with new habits and it cements the fact that I am a writer that I want to be a writer and that as long as I have the means I will be a writer even if it is using good, old-fashion pencil and paper!